Quotes

Quotes

Quotes to inspire and reflect

Helen Rowland
Helen Rowland
Love the quest; marriage the conquest; divorce the inquest.
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Helen Rowland
Helen Rowland
A marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit.
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W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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Helen Rowland
Helen Rowland
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anesthetic.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan
It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.
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Helen Rowland
Helen Rowland
Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
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Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.
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Helen Rowland
Helen Rowland
After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.
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Erica Jong
Erica Jong
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
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Erica Jong
Erica Jong
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Erica Jong
Erica Jong
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
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Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
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G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
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Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
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Helen Rowland
Helen Rowland
Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.
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Mae West
Mae West
Marriage is when a man and woman become as one; the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.
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Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his check book open.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
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Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard
The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.
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Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash
To keep your marriage brimming with love in the loving cup; whenever you're wrong, admit it, whenever you're right, shut up.
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain
God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage.
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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as possible.
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
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Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
I would always rather be happy than dignified.
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Mae West
Mae West
Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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Mae West
Mae West
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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Stendhal
Stendhal
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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François de La Rochefoucauld
François de La Rochefoucauld
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Anatole France
Anatole France
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
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W. C. Fields
W. C. Fields
Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
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George Carlin
George Carlin
Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics should be told not to fuck.
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Napoleão Bonaparte
Napoleão Bonaparte
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
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Clare Boothe Luce
Clare Boothe Luce
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
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Erica Jong
Erica Jong
Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.
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Helen Rowland
Helen Rowland
Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.
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