Famous Quotes

"The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character."

Peter De Vries 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 Peter De Vries

• "The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly."

• "Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums."

• "A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after."

• "I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school."

• "Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us."