“Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.”
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“Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.”
“Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.”
“Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.”
“There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.”
“Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.”
“No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.”
“The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.”
“Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.”
“They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.”
“Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.”
“Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.”
“Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.”
“There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.”
“As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.”
“Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.”
“Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.”
“For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.”
“My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.”
“Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.”
“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.”
“A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.”
“Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?”
“Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.”