“Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.”
“Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.”
“Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.”
“Progress of a marriage: ''There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.''”
“Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.”
“Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.”
“Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.”
“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.”
“The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.”
“Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.”
“Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.”
“Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.”
“You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.”
“Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.”
“The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.”
“I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.”
“I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.”
“The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.”
“I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.”
“Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.”
“The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.”
“Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.”
“You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.”
“It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.”
“Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.”
“Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.”
“It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.”
“My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.”
“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.”
“Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.”