Marriage

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother

Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor

A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life.

A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

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

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures

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

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.

I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.