marriage Quotes

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.

As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of... ...

A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

"Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not."

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Married life is a simpler life. Who I spend my time with is established in advance.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.

Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

"Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed."