For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel saf….

Above all never forget that a marriage is in one way very much like a newspaper. It has to be made fresh every damn day of every damn year..

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted..

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented..

Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own sel….

Man and wife make one fool..

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about..

If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is your mate..

Once two persons are tied together freedom is lost and anger arises. When freedom is lost everything becomes ugly. Love means that freedom remains in….

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance..

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty..

Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan..

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner..

Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains..

The best by far is to marry in one's own rank..

I often used to think myself in the case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the chase as if some unheard-of blessing w….

A good marriage is like Dr Who's Tardis: small and banal from the outside but spacious and interesting from within..

Marriage is socialism among two people..

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a r….

Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil..

Love, and love as deeply as possible. And if love itself becomes the marriage, that is another thing, altogether different. If love itself becomes su….