For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.
The most important step you have made or will make in your life is marriage. Its consequences are many, so important and so everlasting.. No other decision will have such tremendous consequences for the future.
Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the best of opiates. So said Maria. But too long in solitude she'd dwelt, And too long her thoughts had felt Their strength. So when the man drew near, Out popped her thoughts and covered him with fear. Poor Maria! Better that she had kept her thoughts on a chain, For now she's alone again and all in pain; She sighs for the man that went and the thoughts that stay To trouble her dreams by night and her dreams by day.
If you are married and you go off and have an affair with someone, if you are a husband who does that, it may potentially hurt your wife enormously. But it seems to me likely also to compromise your marriage. That seems to me to be a harm.
If thy daughter marry well, thou hast found a son; if not, thou hast lost a daughter.
Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.
You take a normal guy, give him a wife, give them time, and you've got AN IDIOT!
You know, that, with every choice you make there are consequences. And so if you have an amazing husband and you have a child, you go outside that marriage and outside that relationship, there are consequences that follow.
I always say to people, 'You know, if Romeo and Juliet got married, nobody would care about them.' Imagine Romeo and Juliet, six kids yelling, 'Mama, Mama, Papa, Papa!'
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.
A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.
If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.
When a man marries he takes a bigger risk than the woman, because she can march out with his kids, his money, his home, and his dog.
If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.
A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.
Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.
Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.
