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Quotes About Perception

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
~ Samuel Johnson
Before marriage a woman is pensive, after marriage, expensive
~ Samuel Johnson
A loving wife hears even what goes unsaid.
~ Unknown
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesnt say.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
There are many women who are happy to be married, but only a few who are married happily.
~ Curt Goetz
There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
~ Oscar Wilde
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it
~ Israel Zangwill
Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
~ Marilyn Monroe
A man does not buy his wife a fur coat to keep her warm, but to keep her pleasant
~ Seymour Hicks
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising
~ Edgar Watson Howe
Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder
~ Thornton Wilder
There are two times when a man doesn't understand a woman - before marriage and after marriage
~ Erica Jong
After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.
~ Helen Rowland
People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.
~ Oscar Wilde
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
~ Phyllis Diller
Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
~ Gloria Steinem
There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
~ Oscar Wilde
Many women remain unmarried only because they were too smart to ever marry a man dumb enough to marry them.
~ Unknown
Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil
~ Lord Byron
Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building
~ Oscar Wilde
Life is life Itself. No, words can exactly describe life, but living life truly defines it.
~ Unknown
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
~ Novalis