Famous Quotes

"Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder."

Thornton Wilder 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 Thornton Wilder

• "The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."

• "But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone."

• "It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness."

• "The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much."

• "We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind."