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.

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

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

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.

This is what marriage is all about - Man and woman walking together, wherein the husband helps his wife to become ever more a woman, and wherein the woman has the task of helping her husband to become ever more a man.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.