At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.

All other goods by Fortune's hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven.

The secret of happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends.

In buying a horse and taking a wife, shut your eyes and commend yourself to God.

He that has a wife has a master.

Marry and grow tame.

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

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.