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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.

Not the marriage of convenience, nor the marriage of reason, but the marriage of love. - All other marriage, with vows so solemn, with intimacy so close, is but acted falsehood and varnished sin.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.

Oh, friendly to the best pursuits of man, friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace, domestic life in rural leisure passed! few know thy value, and few taste thy sweets.

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Only so far as a man is happily married to himself, is he fit for married life to another, and for family life generally.

Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other, to let her have it.

Pleasant the snaffle of courtship, improving the manners and carriage; but the colt who is wise will abstain from the terrible throw bit of Marriage.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

Polygamy: An endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.


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