I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world..

No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony..

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no decept….

People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy..

The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which….

Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women….

We have forced everyone to go into marriage because of love. Because you cannot love outside it, so we have unnecessarily forced love and marriage to….

A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part ….

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not..

One man's folly is another man's wife..

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically,….

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others..

Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain..

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a….

There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast..

. . . in the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can't, except be a father..

I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries..

I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterp….

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship..