Women have a mother-nature and a daughter-nature; there are no women with a wife-nature. The quality of wife is an acquired character; it is a combination of mother and daughter.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Never question your wife's judgement. Look at who she married.

One should never know too precisely whom one has married.

A person who has been married many years knows more about marriage than one who has been married many times.

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable.

Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is a matter of being the right person.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.