Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

A woman asking Am I good? Am I satisfied? is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I am afraid it did.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

After marriage, a woman sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the will of the people goes out the window.

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

I am so wrapped up in my work that it is often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.