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My toughest fight was with my first wife.
Muhammad Ali1942–2016
Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in my bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.
Woody Allenborn 1935Standup Comic (1999)
- Comedy
As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.
Julie Andrewsborn 1935The New York Times (14 March 1982)
- Age
The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
Aristotle384–322 BCPolitics, Book VII, 1335a.27
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
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813)In context
- Money
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815)In context
- Life & Death
She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. When she was discontented she fancied herself nervous. The business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter IIn context
- Character
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter VIIn context
- Happiness
- Luck
A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter VIIn context
- Love
- Women
I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter XIIn context
- Clever Jabs
“it is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her.”
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter VIIIIn context
- Men
- Women
But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Jane Austen1775–1817Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter IIn context
- Money
“I pay very little regard,” said Mrs. Grant, “to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.”
Jane Austen1775–1817Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter IVIn context
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
Jim Backus1913–1989
- Men