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You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
Will Rogers1879–1935
Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
Walter Raleigh1552–1618Often credited to Emily Dickinson
- Beauty
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.
Marcus Aurelius121–180Meditations
Wedding: a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911).
Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.
Johnny Carson1925–2005
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
André Maurois1885–1967Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)
The difference between divorce and legal separation is that a legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money.
Johnny Carson1925–2005
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
Jim Backus1913–1989
- Men
I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Lothair (1870), Ch. 30.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855)
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
Joseph Barth
I’m a great housekeeper: I get divorced, I keep the house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor1917–2016
I never knew what real happiness was until I got married, and by then it was too late.
MKMax Kaufman
Don’t marry a man to reform him⁠—that’s what reform schools are for.
Mae West1893–1980
- Men