(1282 quotes found)
“Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.”
Albert Einstein
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person”
Mignon McLaughlin
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
Michel de Montaigne
“Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.”
Oscar Wilde
“The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.”
“People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.”
“God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage”
Mark Twain
“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.”
“The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make / not just on your wedding day, but over and over again / and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.”
Barbara De Angelis
“Get married, but never to a man who is home all day”
George Bernard Shaw