The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception".

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.

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.

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.

If I am asked what I think about family life after 25 years of marriage, I can answer with equal simplicity and conviction, I am for it.