By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
Quotations
Marriage
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
The true love is unconditional.
Marriage is a conditional bond.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person.
-Shahrukh Khan
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
