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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

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

The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

A good husband makes a good wife.