Diogenes Quotes

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.

It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.

If you're a man in your twenties or thirties, and you have yet to make your fortune, I would urge you not to get married.

He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

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

The best piece of advice I received before I got married was, "Be careful what you say when you're in a fight, because it could stick in someone's head." I don't think I've ever said anything I really regretted. I'm very sympathetic to women. I've really studied wife-ology, and I know you've got to figure out the feelings. Deal with the feelings.

In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

I can see getting married and having a family, because it is the next thing on the agenda. You can only do this for so long. I'm old, and my friends all have kids. And I'm single, still blow drying my hair!

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

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

Marriage is not a reform school.

The secret to a good marriage, as far as I am concerned, is a joke I make: Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.

A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel - she should marry.

The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl will plunge into it, sometimes without either fear or wit; at twenty, she will begin to think; at twenty-four, will weigh and discriminate; at twenty-eight, will be afraid of venturing; at thirty, will turn about, and look down the hill she has ascended, and sometimes rejoice, sometimes repent, that she has gained that summit sola.

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.

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

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.

Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

Do you think that I am an old man? I could prove to this congregation that I am young; for I could find more girls who would choose me for a husband than can carry any of the young men.