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“If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.”

Ifs Wish Marriage Rich Wife Ruins

Book:Love: (

Source: Love: (

“A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.”

Thinking Men Giving Home Wish Can Do Marriage Doubt Regard Mortals No Doubt

Book:Emma: A Novel

Source: Emma: A Novel

“One who no longer wishes to laugh had best marry in France; they will soon find that it is no laughing matter.”

Matter Wish Marriage Laughing France

Author:Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

“I fancy that England is not the only place where married folks disagree, and where there are bad husbands. If one does not care to meet with such cases, one must quit this world. Those wishing to enter the marriage state had better not come to me for advice, for I disapprove of it altogether.”

Ifs World Doe States Care Wish Marriage Cases Advice This World Husband Married England Folks Quitting Fancy Disagree Bad Husband

Author:Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

“By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.”

Men Firsts Made Wish Pay Marriage Wife Married Highest Compliment Married Man

Book:The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

“No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.”

Men May Matter Wish Marriage Nice Please Married Flirting Being Married Flirty Married Man Happily Married Nice Man

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.”

Wish Marriage Gay Prejudice Majority Definitions Like Me Traditional Preserves Intolerance Bias

Author:Mitt Romney

“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”

Source: Selected Letters

“The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.”

Love Persons Wish Marriage Highest Evolve Best Person

Book:The Language of Feelings

Source: The Language of Feelings

“If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base”

Ifs Way May Matter Three Wish Realizing Marriage Wife Return Husband Argument Paid Praise Profit Compliment Unsafe Small Words

Book:Mark Twain's Satires and Burlesques

Source: Mark Twain's Satires and Burlesques

“Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?”

World Wish Marriage Institutions

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.”

Want Persons Order Wish Marriage Married What You Want Restaurants Wedding Wish You Getting Married

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.”

Doe Age Literature Wish Causes Marriage Sorrow Old Age Wedding Sisterhood Fleeing

Author:Hesiod

“No one would wish a bad marriage on anyone. But where do we think good marriages come from? They don't spring full blown from the head of Zeus any more than does a good education...Why should a marriage require fewer tears and less toil and shabbier commitment than your job or your clothes or your car?”

Thinking Should Doe Jobs Wish Marriage Car Tears Clothes Spring Commitment Fewer Toil Zeus Good Education Good Marriage Bad Marriage

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland