941 private quotes tagged marriage

“A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.” — Samuel Butler

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“Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.” — John Wooden

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“Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.” — Mark Twain

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“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 principles of equal partnership.” — Ann Landers

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“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

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“My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.” — Rodney Dangerfield

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“Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.” — George Eliot

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“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.” — H. L. Mencken

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“There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.” — C. S. Lewis

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“They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.” — Alexander Pope

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“As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.” — Socrates

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“Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.” — Johnny Carson

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“Marriage is the death of hope.” — Woody Allen

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“There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.” — Princess Diana

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“Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.” — Julia Child

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“Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.” — Bertrand Russell

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“The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.” — Ambrose Bierce

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