(1278 quotes found)
“Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.”
Albert Einstein
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person”
Mignon McLaughlin
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
Michel de Montaigne
“Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.”
Oscar Wilde
“God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage”
Mark Twain
“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.”
“The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.”
“There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.”
C.S. Lewis
“I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.”
Rita Rudner
“The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make / not just on your wedding day, but over and over again / and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.”
Barbara De Angelis