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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XV: Hester and PearlIn context
- Love
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn1907–2003
- Men
Man’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.
HHippothoonOften credited to Euripides
- Men
There is nothing better in this world than that man and wife should be of one mind in a house.
Homer900–800 BCThe Odyssey (8th century BC), Book VIIn context
The best way to worship God is to love your wife.
Victor Hugo1802–1885Les Misérables (1862), page 1190, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers
- God
I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa’s doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls.
Henrik Ibsen1828–1906A Doll’s House (1879), Act III, spoken by NoraIn context
- Women
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
Henrik Ibsen1828–1906A Doll’s House (1879), Act III, spoken by NoraIn context
- Love
Rip, in fact, was no politician; the changes of states and empires made but little impression on him; but there was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was⁠—petticoat government.
Washington Irving1783–1859Rip Van Winkle (1819)In context
- Comedy
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of Mark (1611), Mark 10:9 (KJV)In context
- God
A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II (1770) p. 182
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Ch. XXVI
A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II (1770) p. 182
- Hope
I never knew what real happiness was until I got married, and by then it was too late.
MKMax Kaufman
My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I…fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865
- Love
I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
Madonnaborn 1958