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

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

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 subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

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.