Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Marriage: a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves - making in all two.
I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
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.
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
Marriage is just legalized prostitution. Any man who says he hasn't paid for sex, has never been married!