(1554 quotes found)
“People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.”
Oscar Wilde
“Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.”
Mae West
“When entering into a marriage one ought to ask oneself: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman up into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time you are together will be devoted to conversation.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree”
“Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
“Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.”
Louis K. Anspacher
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
“The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding”
“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.”
Benjamin Franklin
“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
Honore de Balzac
