If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.