Famous Quotes

"Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age."

Hesiod 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 Hesiod

• "Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage."

• "Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age."

• "Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death."

• "For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike."

• "Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you she is after your barn."