Yet More Sayings And Quotes On Marriage

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“He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.”
– Francis Bacon

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple do not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough.”
– Gay Hendricks

“Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.”
– Georg C. Lichtenberg

“All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can’t.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Marriage is a mistake every man should make.”
– George Jessel

“The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.”
– George Jessel

“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”
– Gloria Steinem

“Someone asked me why women don’t gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don’t have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.”
– Gloria Steinem

“A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.”
– Grace Hansen

“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?”
– Groucho Marx

“Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.”
– Groucho Marx

“Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There’s no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.”
– Groucho Marx

“A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.”
– H. L. Mencken

“Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.”
– H. L. Mencken

“Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.”
– H. L. Mencken

“No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.”
– H. L. Mencken

“Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.”
– H. L. Mencken

“Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.”
– Harriet Martineau

“The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.”
– Heinrich Heine

“When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.”
– Helen Gahagan

“A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.”
– Helen Rowland

“In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar – a practice which is still continued.”
– Helen Rowland

“It isn’t tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it’s separating himself from all the others.”
– Helen Rowland

“Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.”
– Helen Rowland

“When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.”
– Helen Rowland

“Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.”
– Henny Youngman

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