Marriage Quote by James A. Michener

“...a fellow's a fool when he marries who don't go to work deliberately to study and understand his wife. Women are awfully understandable if…

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

“... a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young.”

— Jonathan Swift

“It seemed to me that, were I a gentleman like him, I would take to my bosom only such a wife as I could…

— Charlotte Brontë

“There is always a thought of marriage between a single female and a personable gentleman, if not in his mind, quite certainly in hers.”

— Georgette Heyer

“Once, when our paths crossed, he told me that the kindest thing I’d ever done was to not marry him. Perhaps because he was…

— Lorraine Heath

“Now it happened that this Candaules was in love with his own wife; and not only so, but thought her the fairest woman in…

— Herodotus

“A man with an affectionate disposition, who finds a wife to concur with his fundamental idea of life, easily comes to persuade himself that…

— George Eliot

“Her husband was the most indulgent man who ever lived, or so said a neighbor who didn't know them very well.”

— David Derbyshire

“From my Great-grandfather, not to have frequented public schools, and to have had good teachers at home, and to know that on such things…

— Marcus Aurelius

“He left behind several failed careers, two failed marriages, and a reputation as a clever but fairly annoying fellow.”

— Steve Sheinkin

“I often think about bachelors, a life of pure decision, of thoughtful calculations, of every inclination honored. They go about on their own, nicely…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

“I should think it might be difficult to possess a wife whom almost every other man in town has known so intimately, but no…

— Oakley Hall