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There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried. LA Bruyere
The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe, comfort, scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration; wives whose existence is given over to a ceaseless vigil of cantankerous affection. William McFee
Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house. Jean Kerr
If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say, talk in your sleep. Woody Allen
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. Mark Twain
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. Aeschylus
There’s one consolation about matrimony. When you look around you can always see somebody who did worse. Warren H Goldsmith
Well married a man is winged; ill matched he is shackled. Henry Ward Beecher
That is partly why women marry; to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things. Elizabeth Bowen
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband’s bravery is only bravado, and that his strength is only a uniform, and that his power is a gun in the hands of a fool. Pearl S. Buck
Matrimony is a good deal like a circus; there is not as much in it as represented in the advertisement. Edgar Watson Howe
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
Though women are angels, yet wedlock’s the devil. Byron
There isn’t a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own. Charles Dudley Warner
To marry a woman you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first. Alfred Capus
Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
A gentleman who had been very unhappy in matrimony, married immediately after his wife died. It was said that this was the triumph of hope over experience. Samuel Johnson
A good husband is the best sort of plaster for the cure of a young woman’s ailments. Moliere
Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence. Cyril Connolly
Many a man that could rule a hundred million strangers with an iron hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hall when he arrives home late at night. Finley Peter Dunne
More belongs to matrimony than four legs in a bed. Thomas Fuller
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. Goethe
If married couples did not live together, happy matrimony would be more frequent. Nietzsche
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. Homer
There are six requisites in every happy marriage. The first is faith and the remaining five are confidence. Elbert Hubbard
Matrimony was all a woman’s idea, and for man’s acceptance of the pretty yolk it becomes us to be grateful. Phyllis Mc Ginley
What is wedlock forced but a hell, an age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary brings bliss and is a pattern of celestial peace. Shakespeare
No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world. Washington Irving
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home and broods a nest of sorrows. Jeremy Taylor
It is so far from being natural for a man and a woman to live in a state of matrimony, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilized society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together. Samuel Johnson
When marrying, one should ask oneself this question; do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this woman into your old age? Nietzsche
If a woman is to capture the lost companionship with man and child, she must once more forget herself, as she did in the old pioneer days, and follow them into the world. Pearl S. Buck
Matrimony is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness. Langdon Mitchell
The fickleness of the woman I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. George Bernard Shaw
A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded bus. Ogden Nash
In married life three is company and two is none. Oscar Wilde
Matrimony is tolerable enough in its way if your easygoing and don’t expect too much from it. But it doesn’t bear thinking about. George Bernard Shaw
It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each other’s stories; for if they did not, they would burst. Logan Pearsall Smith
I read about divorce, and I can’t see why two people can’t get along together in harmony, and I see two people and I can’t see how either of them can live with the other. Franklin P. Adams
We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, and we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again. Hippolyte Taine
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies. Oscar Wilde
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Francis Bacon
