It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one.

Motherhood is a blissful chain...I have a mother - my precious gift...I am a mother - the best of my kind!

It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.

By all means marry If you get a good wife you ll be happy If you get a bad one you ll become a philosophe

To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.

[S]ince the dawn of civilization, getting in-laws has been one of marriage's most important functions.

Not married until 33, Abraham Lincoln said, "A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that cannot hurt me.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

The failure of so many marriages is due to their getting married out of animal passion and not out of love.

Don`t waste too much time trying to be a better man cause you ain t never gonna be one without a good woman

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

They hadnt enjoyed each others company in years. Talking led to screaming and both were sick of the fights.

You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).'Emma Darwin to husband Charles

She is afraid of divorce, which will free her, as she was not enough afraid of marriage, which trapped her.

Marriage isn't for the weak or lazy. It's work, and it should be. What would be the point otherwise?