Modern marriage has lost its meaning-consequently it is being abolished.

Many brief follies-that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people, but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.