The Humorous View
- Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
(H. L. Mencken)
- Most women set out to change a man, and when they have changed him
they do not like him.
(Marlene Dietrich)
- A man in love is not complete until he is married. Then he is
finished.
(Zsa Zsa Gabor)
- Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the
whole girl.
(Stephen Leacock)
- Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
(H. L. Mencken)
- Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
(H. L. Mencken)
- The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a
beautiful profile.
(Sacha Guitry)
- And behind every man who's a failure there's a woman, too!
(John Ruge)
- Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them, women
will forgive them anything, even their gigantic intellects.
(Oscar Wilde)
- Women are made to be loved, not understood.
(Oscar Wilde)
- A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding
acquaintance with a man.
(Ed Howe)
- Some girls never know what they are going to do from one husband to
another.
(Tom Masson)
- All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can
tell them apart.
(Anon.)
- Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a
long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it
doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
(Jean Kerr)
- I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
(Will Rogers)
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The Serious View
- Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom
of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.
(H.G. Wells, quoting a Scottish Proverb)
- Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each
other's little failings.
(Jean De La Bruyere)
- I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in
unkindness.
(Mother Teresa)
- The first duty of love is to listen.
(Paul Tillich)
- Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
(Joseph Barth)
- It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a
failure.
(Herbert Samuel)
- Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without
marriage.
(Benjamin Franklin)
- Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.
(Kin Hubbard)
- All married women are not wives.
(Japanese Proverb)
- Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
(Andrew Jackson)
- I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that
would wear well.
(Oliver Goldsmith)
- She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a
friend.
(William Penn)
- Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at
home.
(Kin Hubbard)
- It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love
with.
(Clark Gable)
- Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.
(Giuseppe Mazzini)
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