Anne Bronte Quotes

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.

The best by far is to marry in one's own rank.

A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.

My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That's my mantra.

She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.

Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.

There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.

I believe if I refuse to grow old, I can stay young 'til I die.

Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.

I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.

Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.

Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this woman for the next forty years?'' That's how to pick a wife.

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.

When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands.

When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands. When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated and ambitious. Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.

Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.

What's the best way to get a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse because a good spouse is by definition not nuts.

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

Do not believe hastily.

I never did, nor do I believe I ever shall, give advice to a woman who is setting out on a matrimonial voyage; first, because I never could advise one to marry without her own consent; and, secondly, I know it is to no purpose to advise her to refrain when she has obtained it. A woman very rarely asks an opinion or requires advice on such an occasion, till her resolution is formed; and then it is with the hope and expectation of obtaining a sanction, not that she means to be governed by your disapprobation, that she applies.

I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.

A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.

Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.