(1547 quotes found)
“Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree”
Oscar Wilde
“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.”
“Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.”
Mae West
“Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.”
“Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.”
Louis K. Anspacher
“Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.”
Barnett Brickner
“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.”