By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.