He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Marriage is anti-romantic - husband and wife are terms like 'turkey' and 'goose.' Worse, they denote ownership.
Today's my wedding day, Mom," he said softly aloud. "I'm marrying the woman I always told you I would someday.
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
The death of marriage has been announced so often and would seem so normal, in a sense. So what's surprising is the sheer longevity and tenacity of this institution.
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
The act of getting married, stripped of the necessity to have a secure setting to raise children, seems to me no less grim than registering your emotions with the government.
Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.
Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.
The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.
Only in England would 'professor gets divorced and remarried' be a story.
