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1. “I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.”

Abraham Lincoln

Marriage, Self-Reflection, Humor, Independence, Personal Choice

2. “Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.”

Abraham Lincoln

Marriage, Relationships, Reality, Expectations, Life

3. “Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.”

Albert Einstein

Marriage, Critique, Society, Relationships, Independence

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

Albert Einstein

Marriage, Relationships, Expectations, Change, Humor

5. “No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage...”

William Shakespeare

Love, Marriage, Stages, Romance, Sighs

6. “When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.”

William Shakespeare

Love, Bachelor, Marriage, Humor, Irony

7. “Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.”

William Shakespeare

Hanging, Marriage, Prevention, Humor, Wisdom

8. “Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.”

William Shakespeare

Men, Women, Marriage, Seasons, Change

9. “Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.”

William Shakespeare

Maids, Husbands, Want, Satisfaction, Marriage

10. “Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.”

Mahatma Gandhi

Marriage, Dowry, Education, Respect, Equality

11. “It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.”

Mahatma Gandhi

Marriage, Duty, Ethics, Society, Relationships

12. “I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.”

Mahatma Gandhi

Celibacy, Commitment, Personal Choice, Marriage, Values

13. “I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Marriage, Relationships, Responsibility, Equality, Dedication

14. “I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Expectations, Gender Roles, Marriage, Society, Leadership

15. “You never know anyone until you marry them.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Marriage, Understanding, Relationships, Intimacy, Connection

16. “So I took an interest in politics, but I don’t know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife’s duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Gender Roles, Marriage, Duty, Interest, Social Norms

17. “Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Marriage, Parenting, Discipline, Commitment, Responsibility

18. “The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Marriage, Responsibility, Family, Commitment, Service

19. “If I was your wife, Sir, I’d poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I’d let you!”

Winston Churchill

Marriage, Humor, Wit, Banter, Irony

20. “My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”

Winston Churchill

Achievement, Marriage, Persuasion, Humor, Love

21. “Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl – no superior alternative has yet been found.”

Winston Churchill

Family, Love, Tradition, Relationships, Marriage

22. “My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.”

Winston Churchill

Humor, Marriage, Relationships, Compromise, Routine

23. “When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.”

Oscar Wilde

Marriage, Relationships, Gender, Perspective, Society

24. “Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.”

Oscar Wilde

Marriage, Irony, Life, Humor, Relationships

25. “Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”

Oscar Wilde

Marriage, Relationships, Irony, Reflection, Gender

26. “Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”

Oscar Wilde

Marriage, Humor, Irony, Relationships, Society

27. “Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”

Oscar Wilde

Companionship, Marriage, Friendship, Conversation, Connection

28. “The man who says his wife can’t take a joke, forgets that she took him.”

Oscar Wilde

Marriage, Humor, Irony, Reflection, Relationships

29. “Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.”

Oscar Wilde

Marriage, Love, Devotion, Heartbreak, Faith

30. “Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don’t think it right.”

Oscar Wilde

Marriage, Flirting, Girls, Relationships, Social Norms

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