“A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.”
Newsweek, March 28, 1960
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“No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Theory held by Disraeli, cited in Sir William Fraser, Disraeli and his Day (1891), p. 142.
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“The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.”
Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance
Source: A Woman of No Importance
“A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.”
Richard Nixon (1913–1994) 37th President of the United States of America
1969 note to self, as quoted in Nixon (1987) by Stephen E. Ambrose, p. 284
1960s
Variant: A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
“He is dreadfully married. "He's the most married man I ever saw in my life."”
Artemus Ward (1834–1867) American writer
Moses, the Sassy.
Jeffrey T. Kuhner (1969) American journalist
Insight on the News, editorial: "Washington Watch: Obama's fund-raising record reveals weakness of Hillary's campaign", 2007-7-1
“Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
The 'Advertisement' to the 1853 edition.
Books, Coningsby (1844), The Young Duke (1831)
“A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.”
Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“One man is as good as another until he has written a book.”
Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893) Theologian, classical scholar, and academic administrator
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