Famous Quotes

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?"

H. L. Mencken on Marriage

More quotes about Marriage

• "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

  Mignon McLaughlin on Marriage

• "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 on Marriage

• "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Marriage

• "How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

  Oscar Wilde on Marriage

• "Don't marry the person you think you can live with marry only the individual you think you can't live without."

  James C. Dobson on Marriage

More quotes by H. L. Mencken

• "The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."

• "Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age."

• "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."

• "Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

• "A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in."