Spouse Selection Quotes

Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.

Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?

He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.

A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

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.

If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife

Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.

In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most vivid representation of your own personality. Your spouse becomes the most gleaming possible mirror through which your emotional individualism is reflected back to the world. 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.

The most important thing - and I've said it a hundred times and I'll say it a hundred times - if you marry a man, marry the right one.

I don't think I'll ever meet the perfect woman. I might have to get me one of them mail order women. You can do that: you send away to the Philippines, and they send you a wife. The only thing is, once you're on their mailing list, they keep sending you a relative a month whether you want it or not.

No one should be denied the opportunity to choose his or her spouse. It is a basic human right and deeply personal decision.

Arranged marriages are ones where you got to learn who the person is after you actually get married, which can be challenging.

Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.