Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

One fool at least in every married couple.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?