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1. "When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!"

Shana Alexander, "State-by-State Guide to Women`s Legal Rights"

Quotations about: Law and Crime

2. "If marriages were made by putting all the men's names into one sack and the women's names into another, and having them taken out by a blindfolded child like lottery numbers, there would be just as high a percentage of happy marriages as we have here in England."

George Bernard Shaw, "Misalliance"

Quotations about: Happiness

3. "Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do."

Bettina Arndt, "Private Lives"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

4. "In the best of all possible worlds, childbirth enriches a marriage. In the worst, it harms it. No matter how good their marriage is, most couples find that having a baby challenges their relationship."

Jean Marzollo, "Your Maternity Leave"

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

5. "Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up."

Joseph Barth

Quotations about: Youth and Age

6. "A literary woman's best critic is her husband."

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, "Chapters from a Life"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

7. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."

Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice"

8. "Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

Francis Bacon, "Essays"

Quotations about: Woman and Man -:- Youth and Age

9. "An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband."

Booth Tarkington, "Looking Forward and Others"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

10. "There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage."

Alexander Theroux, "An Adultery"

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

11. "Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Philosophical Dictionary"

12. "Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of life. "

Joseph Addison

Quotations about: Happiness

13. "Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest."

Honoré De Balzac

14. "Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course."

Helen Rowland, "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Quotations about: Love

15. "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one."

Helen Rowland, "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

16. "When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart."

Helen Rowland, "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

17. "Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it."