Incompatibility: In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

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.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.