“Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles”
102 quotes · page 2 of 6
“Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles”
“There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. ”
“There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. ”
“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband”
“It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being”
“Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage”
“Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other ”
“A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing. ”
“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory”
“Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive”
“Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance”
“Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman ”
“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. ”
“A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes”
“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. ”
“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it”
“Children have more need of models than of critics”
“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back ”
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance”
“Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives”