If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

Man is for woman a means: the end is always the child.

When marrying, one should ask oneself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this woman into your old age?

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight As, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard's mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private school teacher herself.

Romance calls for "the faraway love" of the troubadours; marriage for love of "one's neighbor."

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.