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.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

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.

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.

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