Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

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.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.