"A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one."
"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"Great events make me quiet and calm it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."
"I think people really marry far too much it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness."
"When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage."
"A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one."