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
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
-Helen Hollick
"The Kingmaking"
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.
-Elizabeth Cadell
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
