An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

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

Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her. That turning of backs, that cold space between their two unhappy bodies.

Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage, if anything is.

Choose your wife, not at a dance, but in the harvest field.

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.