Marriage

(113 votes)   It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Scottish Proverbs
Sayings of Scottish Origin

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(112 votes)   Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(111 votes)   Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Phyllis Mcginley
1905-1978, American Poet, Author

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(110 votes)   In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who 'come out' together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Charles Caleb Colton

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(110 votes)   In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

William Penn
1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania

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(109 votes)   Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.

P. J. O'Rourke

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(100 votes)   Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.

Anonymous

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(100 votes)   Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Anonymous

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(98 votes)   He who marries for money earns it.

Yiddish Proverbs
Sayings of Yiddish Origin

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(97 votes)   A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(97 votes)   A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(97 votes)   Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.

Henry Louis Mencken

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(95 votes)   For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.

Robert Briffault

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(94 votes)   A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.

Edgar Watson Howe

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(93 votes)   Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Harlan Miller

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