Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.

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

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

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

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.