“A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife”
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“A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife”
“The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.”
“Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought”
“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”
“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war”
“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures”
“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?”
“I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.”
“Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree”
“The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.”
“A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable”
“Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.”
“If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.”
“Marriage is like life in this-that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses”
“The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity”
“Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out”
“To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties”
“Talk six times with the same single lady and you may get the wedding dress ready”
“It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage”
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance”