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.

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.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

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