Marriage Quotes by Euripides

“Go home to your wife. Go bury her.”

— Euripides

The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.

— Euripides

The wife should yield in all things to her lord

— Euripides

“Death will be my wedding, children and glory.”

— Euripides

The greatest wealth a man can have is an understanding wife.

— Euripides

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

— Euripides

When cheated, wife or husband feels the same.

— Euripides

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

— Euripides

Women don't like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different.

— Euripides

A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.

— Euripides

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful.

— Euripides

“Try refusing the arrangement, or later petition for divorce -- the first is impossible while the second is like admitting you're a…

— Euripides

A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

— Euripides

“Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have…

— Euripides

“AGAMEMNON: I will not slay my children, nor shall thy interests be prospered by justice in thy vengeance for a worthless wife,…

— Euripides

Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor…

— Euripides

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

— Euripides

What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?

— Euripides