Advantage Quote by Rebecca West

Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain.

— Helen Rowland

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if…

— Muriel Spark

The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child,…

— Henry Adams

The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to…

— Samuel Adams

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress…

— Jack Kingston

Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who's miserable in it - men and women alike - and anyone who's suffered through difficult…

— Adam Ross

Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it…

— Edith Wharton

Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a…

— Richard Harris

Marriage is like a runaway train without break heading towards a dustbin of history. It's a a sad indictment that the bedrock of human…

— Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom

Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.

— Federico Fellini

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer…

— Germaine Greer

Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they loved best,…

— Henry Adams