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 successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
