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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Helen Rowland

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3

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Michel de Montaigne

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5

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

André Maurois

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6

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Olive Schreiner

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Henrik Ibsen

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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9

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom

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10

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

André Maurois

Marriage
11

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

André Maurois

Marriage
12

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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13

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Honoré de Balzac

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14

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Joseph Addison

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15

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Helen Rowland

Marriage
16

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Eppie Friedman

Marriage
17

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron

Marriage
18

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Benjamin Franklin

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19

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Isadora Duncan

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20

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

Marriage
21

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Harriet Martineau

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22

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Brigham Young

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23

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Josh Billings

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24

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Matthew Prior

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25

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Helen Rowland

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26

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom

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27

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Erica Jong

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28

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

Mark Twain

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29

but when widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding-day, is absolutely fixed on.

Henry Fielding

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30

By all means marry: if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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31

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Samuel Johnson

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32

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Marriage
33

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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34

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Thomas Fuller M.D.

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35

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

John Updike

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36

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Germaine Greer

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37

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Cyril Connolly

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38

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. -- Matthew 22:30

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39

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

H. L. Mencken

Marriage
40

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Francis Picabia

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41

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

William Congreve

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42

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Jane Austen

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43

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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44

He who marries for money earns it.

Marriage
45

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

Andrew Jackson

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46

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. -- 1 Peter 3:7

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47

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. -- Ephesians 5:25

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48

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

John Barrymore

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49

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Mahatma Gandhi

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50

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

J. Paul Getty

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51

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Abraham Lincoln

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52

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron

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53

I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.

Marriage
54

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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55

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom

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56

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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57

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Bette Davis

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58

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Margaret Mead

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59

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Noël Coward

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60

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

H. L. Mencken

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61

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

Marriage
62

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Michel de Montaigne

Marriage
63

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Katharine Hepburn

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64

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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65

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Thomas Fuller M.D.

Marriage
66

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Iris Murdoch

Marriage
67

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

William Penn

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68

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Enid Bagnold

Marriage
69

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Marriage
70

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Emma Goldman

Marriage
71

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

Marriage
72

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Ambrose Bierce

Marriage
73

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Marriage
74

It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

Marriage
75

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Will Rogers

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76

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage
77

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Jane Austen

Marriage
78

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Honoré de Balzac

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79

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

Samuel Johnson

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80

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage
81

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Ezra Pound

Marriage
82

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Sydney Smith

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83

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Marriage
84

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

Mae West

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85

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

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86

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Martin Luther

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87

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

W. H. Auden

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88

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Oscar Wilde

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89

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

Molière

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90

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Emma Goldman

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91

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Stephen Leacock

Marriage
92

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Zig Ziglar

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93

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

Marriage
94

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Andrea Dworkin

Marriage
95

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Søren Kierkegaard

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96

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Samuel Johnson

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97

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

Thornton Wilder

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98

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Mae West

Marriage
99

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

Marriage
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

G. K. Chesterton

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

but when widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding-day, is absolutely fixed on.

By all means marry: if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. -- Matthew 22:30

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

He who marries for money earns it.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. -- 1 Peter 3:7

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. -- Ephesians 5:25

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.