Jonathan Swift Quotes

The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

I have known a few good marriages, but very few. And others look to me like they're pretty miserable. I don't really think that's a recipe for happiness.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.

I don't care how handsome or fabulous or funny the groom is, or how sweet and accommodating the bride, or vice versa. Marriage is hard.

A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

I thought of only getting engaged with Elesh instead of marrying him so that I could get more time to decide. But as time passed, I started feeling that he was not the right person for me. He just wanted to marry me because he wanted be part of my glamorous life.

I think the mistake some people make is they try to change the man they love after they get married. You cannot change a person.

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.

I was surprised to learn that research showed arranged couples tended to be happier in the long run.

He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.

Marriage may restrict your activity, but it increases your pleasure. It permits sex without shame, fear, or guilt.

There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.

If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.

And I'll tell ya, I'm really enjoying this marriage thing. You think about each other. You care about each other. It's wonderful! Plus, I love saying 'my wife.' Once I started saying it, I couldn't stop - 'my wife' this, 'my wife' that...it's an amazing way to begin a sentence.

A man who doesn't make you feel special, wanted or important would make a very poor husband.

I've been married for 49 years. Where have I failed?

I am all for love, because love fails. You will be surprised - I have my own logic. I am all for love, because love fails. I am not for marriage, because marriage succeeds; it gives you a permanent settlement. And that is the danger: you become satisfied with a toy, you become satisfied with something plastic, artificial, man-made.