Famous Quotes

"The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all."

Iris Murdoch 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 Iris Murdoch

• "The cry of equality pulls everyone down."

• "We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is."

• "Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."

• "We can only learn to love by loving."

• "Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."