“A married man is only half a man.”
Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)
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French writer 1885–1967Related quotes
“The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.”
Source: A Woman of No Importance
Universities, Actual and Ideal (1874)
1870s
“I will marry the man of my dreams and not the man society dreams for me.”
Source: https://dailypost.ng/2020/09/02/nollywood-actress-rita-dominic-reveals-why-her-marriage-plans-didnt-work-out/%3famp=1 Speaking during an interview with TVC.
“There's nobody as lonely as an all-married man.”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part Two, Chapter XXI
“When a Man has Married a Wife
He finds out whether
Her Knees & elbows are only
glued together.”
Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1800–1803)
1800s
“Marry a good man, and bear good children.”
In response to his wife's question of what she should do if he died in battle, as he left for Thermopylae; as quoted in the "Sayings of the Spartan Women" http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/Sayings_of_Spartan_Women*.html in the Moralia
Variant translation: Marry a good man, and have good children.
“A man may be a fool and not know it — but not if he is married.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
Source: Generation of Vipers (1942), p. 20
Context: The blame for Armageddon lies on man. And the millennium will come only when the average man exhibits a scientific integrity about all he is and does — instead of half of it. Many a psychological Archimedes has put signposts on the hard road man must follow if he is to avoid self-destruction and come into his own. A few very great modern scientists have added to the lore. Indications of what man may expect of himself are everywhere at hand. But most men must first be persuaded that the task lies ahead and not behind — that we are infants still, with loaded guns for toys.