A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
Marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as if she weren't.
No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.
What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
A husband always prefers his wife's mother-in-law to his own.
Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster keeps still.
Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.
Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
Any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance, however passionate.
One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour.
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Polygamy: an endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making, in all, two.
Marriage is a great institution, and no family should be without it.
Any married man should forget his mistakes - no use two people remembering the same thing.