“Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.”
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“Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.”
“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed”
“Marriage: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two”
“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher”
“Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience”
“Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others”
“Wedding: A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.”
“Marriage is one long conversation, checkered with disputes”
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love”
“Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end. ”
“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder”
“One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry”
“An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife”
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished”
“Love one another but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls ”
“We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end”
“To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with”
“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards ”
“Marriage is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is Eternity ”
“If you go to the married state, lead the man with tender hand. Much too strong women's power makes the husbands sour. ”