Spousal Selection Quotes

Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband

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?

In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother; and yet a prudent man, when he begins to think of the daughter, would look sharp at the mother; ay, and back to the grandmother too, and along the whole female line of ancestry.

Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.

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.

It is not the men who choose the maids, but the maids themselves who take the husbands they like, and when they like.

The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.

If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

If any Maid or single Woman have a desire to go over, they will think themselves in the Golden Age, when Men paid a Dowry for their Wives; for if they be but Civil, and under 50 years of Age, some honest Man or other, will purchase them for their Wives.

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.

The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.