Famous Quotes

"Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends."

Samuel Richardson 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 Samuel Richardson

• "The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal."

• "If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it."

• "Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry."

• "Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation."

• "As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man."