On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.