More permanent and genuine happiness is to be found in the sequestered walks of connubial life than in the giddy rounds of promiscuous pleasure.

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.

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

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.