Marriage

(65 votes)   Marriage is when a man and woman become as one; the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.

Anonymous

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(65 votes)   Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverbs

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(64 votes)   How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Catharine Esther Beecher
1800-1878, American Educator, Writer

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(64 votes)   I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

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(64 votes)   Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

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(64 votes)   To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Arthur Schopenhauer
1788-1860, German Philosopher

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(63 votes)   I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Margaret Mead
1901-1978, American Anthropologist

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(62 votes)   Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

William Blake

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(62 votes)   You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(61 votes)   A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Henrik Ibsen
1828-1906, Norwegian Dramatist

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(61 votes)   It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(61 votes)   Marriage is the sunset of love.

French Proverbs
Sayings of French Origin

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(61 votes)   One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly. Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an of ual .

Ruth Smythers

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(61 votes)   Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Jean Jacques Rousseau
1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist

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(61 votes)   The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

Margaret Mead
1901-1978, American Anthropologist

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