Men, Women and Marriage
Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
—Henry Mencken(1880-1956 American writer and scholar of American English)
Women are born with more sensitivity and intuition than men.
—Marion Hilliard(1902-1958 Canadian doctor)
Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.
—Jules Michelet(1798-1874 French historian)
It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.
—Victor Marie Hugo(1802-1885 French poet, novelist and dramatist)
The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house.
—Pythagoras(ca. 572-497 B.C. Greek philosopher and mathematician)
Frailty, thy name is woman.
—William Shakespeare(1564-1616 British playwright and poet)
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
—French proverb
Hasty marriage seldom proves well.
—William Shakespeare(1564-1616 British playwright and poet)
Marriage may be compared to a cage: the birds outside despair to get in and those within despair to get out.
—Michel Eyguem Montaigne(1533-1592 French essayist)
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
—Alexander Pope(1688-1744 British poet)
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
—Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790 American politician and scientist)
It takes two to make marriage a success and only one a failure.
—Herbert Samuel(1870-1963 British politician)
If you fight for yourself, only you can win; when you fight for your marriage, you both win.
—Saint Paul(ca. 5-67 Jesus’ apostle who preaches the Christianity to the non-jews.)
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
—Sydney Smith(1771-1845 British writer)
Marriage is meant to be a permanent union of two unselfish people.
—Saint Paul(ca. 5-67 Jesus apostle who preaches the Christianity to the non-Jews.)