“The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.”
“A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.”
“The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.”
“In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.”
“The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy”
“Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.”
“Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.”
“Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.”
“I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.”
“By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.”
“Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.”
“There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.”
“There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.”
“It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.”
“When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.”
“Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.”
“Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.”
“To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.”
“The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”
“Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.”
“Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.”
“Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.”
“Progress of a marriage: ''There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.''”
“Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.”
“Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.”
“Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.”
“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.”
“The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.”
“Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.”
“Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.”