Famous Quotes

"Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it."

W. Somerset Maugham 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 W. Somerset Maugham

• "Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

• "What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

• "Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

• "The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger."

• "We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."