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Marriage Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
- I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.
- It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives…
- Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for…
- When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was
- Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course…
- To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity,…
- There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of…
- Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
- Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
- Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick comforts
- I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due…
- Before marriage a woman is pensive, after marriage, expensive
- I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity; and cannot but…
- A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first…
- Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
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