Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results; but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a particular brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go to work in the brewery.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.