(1547 quotes found)
“The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding”
Oscar Wilde
“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
Honore de Balzac
“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.”
Henry Youngman
“Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.”
Bertrand Russell
“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.”
Aristotle
“Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.”
William Orville Douglas
“When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.”
“Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.”
Michel de Montaigne
“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.”
George Bernard Shaw
