Famous Quotes

"Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage."

Henry Adams on Marriage

More quotes about Marriage

• "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

  Mignon McLaughlin on Marriage

• "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."

  Socrates on Marriage

• "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Marriage

• "How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

  Oscar Wilde on Marriage

• "Don't marry the person you think you can live with marry only the individual you think you can't live without."

  James C. Dobson on Marriage

More quotes by Henry Adams

• "The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin."

• "I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist."

• "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

• "Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education."

• "All experience is an arch, to build upon."