It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing.

That is partly why women marry-to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husbands bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

That was their marriage then-not the highest paving of the stair, the clatter of Italian fountains, the wind in the alien olive trees, but this: a jay-naked male and female discussing their bowels.