The one charm of marriage is that it makes life of deception absolutely necessary for bot parties. – Oscar Wilde

The first bond of society is marriage. (Prima societas in ipso conjugio est.) – Cicero

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. –

George Eliot

If you would marry suitably, marry year equal. – Ovid

Matrimony is something that the bachelor missed and the widower escapes. – F. M. Knowles

To marry once is a duty, twice a folly, thrice madness. – Proverb

Let me not to the marriage of true minds.

Admit impediments. -  Shakespeare

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women. – Bernard Shaw

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. – Unknown

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; but what they do not we are told expressly, that they neither marry nor are given in marriage. – Swift

In married life three is company and two none. – Oscar Wilde

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. – Benjamin Franklin

Like blood, like goods, and like age,

Make the happiest marriage. – John Clarke

For any man to match above his rank

Is but to sell his liberty. – Massinger

A poor man who marries a wealthy woman gets a ruler and not a wife. – Anaxandrides

He that marries for wealth sells his liberty. – Thomas Fuller

You should indeed have longer tarried

By the roadside before you married. – W.S. Landor

Marry in haste, repent at leisure. – Congreve

Marriage has, as you say, no natural relation to love. Marriage belongs to society; it is a social contract. – S.T. Coleridge

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. – Benjamin Franklin

It is commonly a weak man who marries for love. – Samuel Johnson

Marry first and love will follow. – Hannah

Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. – Sheridan

The only thing that can hallow marriage is love, and the only genuine marriage is that which is hallowed by love. – Leo Tolstoy

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. – Oscar Wilde

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on earth. – Unknown

Marriage is destiny, made in heaven. – John Lyly

 Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution. – G.K. Chesterton

Man is the genuine offspring of revolt. – Cowper

Man is a little soul carrying around a corpse. – Epictetus

Man is Nature’s sole mistake. – Gilbert

Man is a machine into which we put what we call food and produce what we call thought. – Ingersoli

Man is a reasoning animal (Rational animal est homo) – Seneca

Man was made by the Gods for them to toy and play with. – Plato

Man is the most intelligent of animals – and the most silly. – Diogenes

The only laughing animal is man. – William Whitehead

They are but children, too; though they have gray hairs, they are, indeed, children of a larger size. – Seneca

Man is a restless thing; still vain and wild,

Lives beyond sixty, nor outgrows the child. – Isaac Watts

Mankinds are earthen jugs with spirits in them. – Hawthorne

There’s no trust.

No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured,

All for sworn, all naught, all dissembles. – Shakespeare

However we brave it out, we men are a little bread. – Tennyson

O how contemptible a thing is man unless he can raise himself above humanity. – Seneca

How weak and yet how vain a thing is man,

Mean what he will, endeavor what he can! – John Sheffield

All that I care to know is that a man is a human being – that is enough for me; the can’t be any worse. – Mark Twain

Mankinds, when left to them, are unfit for their own government. – George Washington

What the superior man seeks is in him; what the small man seeks is in others. -

Confucius

Of all beasts the man – beast is the worst;

To others, and himself, the cruelest foe. – Richard Baxter

Man’s that savage beast, whose mind,

From reason to self-love declined

Delights to prey upon his kind. – Sir John Denham

Man is no man, but a wolf. ( Lupus est homo, non homo.) – Plautus

And cruel death is always near;

So frail a thing is man. – Unknown

Man being in honour abideth not; he is like the beasts that perish. – Old Testament

For men on earth ’tis best never to be born at all; or being born, to pass through the gates of Hades with al speed. – Homer

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed, and hopes that have been disappointed. – Samuel Johnson

Whome’er thou shalt see wretched, know him man. (Quemcumque miserum videris, homiem scias.) – Seneca

Man’s conclusions are reached by toil.

Woman arrives at the same by sympathy. – Emerson

Men word and think, but women feel. – Christina Rossetti

Woman’s dearest delight is to would man’s self conceit, though man’s dearest delight is to gratify hers. – Bernard Shaw

If women were humbler, men would be honester. – Sir John Vanbrugh

All the reasoning of men is not worth one sentiment of women. – Voltaire

Women are never disarmed by compliments.

Men always are.                                    – Oscar Wilde

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. – Oscar Wilde

I like men who have a future, and women who have a past. – Oscar Wilde

 Love is love’s reward. – Dryden

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy. – Bulwer – Lytton

In love, loss and gain are harmonized. – Rabindranath Tagore

Bondage and liberation are not antagonistic in love. – Rabindranath Tagore

Love is the noblest frailty of the mind. – Dryden

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light. – Carlyle

Love is a fine flower, but unity of consciousness is the root. – Sri Aurobindo

Love is the salt of life. – John Sheffield

The fist condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence. – George Eliot

Love and a cough cannot be hid. – George Herbert

Love is like the measles – all the worse when it comes late in life. – Douglas Jerrold

Whom we love best, to them we can say least. – John Ray

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. – Shakespeare

In women pity begets love, in men love begets pity. – Churton

’Tis hard to be in love and to be wise – Nathaniel Lee

Love draws me one way, reason another. – Ovid

Analysis kills love, as well as other things. – John Brown

Take love away from life and you take away its pleasures. – Moliere

Man dreams of fame, while woman wakes to love. – Tennyson

Love lessens woman’s delicacy and increases man’s. – Jean Paul Richter

That you may be loved, be lovable. – Ovid

The only present love demand is love. – John Gay

The devils take me; if I think anything but love to be the object of love. – Fielding

Love for love is evilest bought. – Unknown

The sight of lovers feed those in love. – Shakespeare

Love’s a malady without a cure. – Dryden

Love, the sole disease thou canst not cure. – Pope

Love, the mild servant, makes a drunken master. – John Masefield

Love rules his kingdom without a sword. – George Herbert

He that hath love in his breast hath spurs in his sides. – George Herbert

For love is heaven, and heaven is love – Scott

And love is love list when embalmed in tears. – Scott

The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love. – Robert Burton

“How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key wherewith we decipher the whole man.” – Carlyle

“Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.” – Goethe

“Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is and instrument of happiness.” – John Dryden

I’d rather laugh, a bright-haired boy.

Than reign, a gray-beard king. – O.W. Holmes

“A good laugh is sunshine in a house.” – Thackeray

“A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.” – Lamb

“Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.” – Greville

“I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart that shows at the same time pearls and the soul.” – Victor Hugo

Joy has its friends, but grief its loneliness. – Robert Nathan

Laugh and the world laughs with you,

Weep and you weep alone. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.” – Sophocles

“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.” – Goethe

“Be kind to all and server to thyself.” – Teresa of Avila

“Kindness gives birth to kindness.” – Sophocles

“A kind heart is fountains of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.” – Washington Irving

“Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.” – Shakespeare

“It is necessary to note that joy is not pleasure, and beauty not mere prettiness.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“Joys are our wings; sorrows our spurs.” – Richter

“Great joys, like grief’s, are silent.” – S. Marnion – Hollands Leaguer

“Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.” – Fielding

“Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.” – Arnold Bennet

“A good husband makes a good wife.” – Robert Burton

“As the husband is, the wife is.” – Tennyson

“Husbands, love your wives, and are not bitter against them.” – New Testament

  “To the guests that must go, bid God’s speed and brush away all traces of their steps.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men!” Old Testament

“The first day a man is a guest, the second a burden, the third a pest.” – Laboulaye

“Fish and guests in three days are stable.” – John Lyly

“The heart of the wise, like a mirror, should reflect all objects, without being sullied by any.” – Confucius

“The heart hath its own memory, like the mind,

And in it are enshrined

The precious keepsakes, into which is wrought

The giver’s loving thought.” – Longfellow

“The same heart beats in every human breast.” – Matthew Arnold

“The heaviness of the heart breaketh strength ….. Take no heaviness to heart.” – Apocrypha

“A good heart’s worth gold.” – Shakespeare

“I account more strength in a true heart than in a walled city.” – John Lyly

“The heart has no language. It speaks to the heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“What the heart thinketh, the tongue speaketh.” – John Ray

“Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.” – Lord Chesterfield

“No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it “a blessing.” Deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.” – Aristotle

“No man is happy who does not think himself so.” – Marcus Antoninus

“Happiness can be built only one virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.” – Coleridge

“Happiness depends on what you can give, not what you can get.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.” – Cicero

“A man may rule the world and still be unhappy, if he does not feel that he is supremely happy.” – Seneca

“Happiness is a habit – cultivate it.” – Elbert Hubbard

“Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainly of innocence.” – Henrik Ibsen

“Man is not born for happiness.” – Samuel Johnson

“Happiness is not found in self-contemplation; it is perceived only when it is reflected from another.” – Samuel Johnson

“Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to t6he vulgar taste.” – Logan Pearsall smith

“The happiness of man consists in life, and life is in labour.” – Tolstoy

“True happiness ne’er enter’d at an eye;

True happiness resides in things unseen.” – Young

“We ne’er can be made happy by compulsion.” – S.T. Coleridge

“Man is the artificer of his own happiness.” – Thoreau

“O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes!” – Shakespeare

“A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.” – Bernard Shaw