The world has grown so suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.[El problema de la vida pública es aprender a dominar el terror, el problema de la vida conyugal es aprender a dominar el tedio.]
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
The moment a wife decides to break her marriage vow she reckons her husband as everything or nothing.
The married woman who is the most chaste may be also the most voluptuous.
The married woman is a slave whom one must know how to set upon a throne.
The married couple who intend to love each other during their whole life have no notion of a honeymoon; for them it has no existence, or rather its existence is perennial; they are like the immortals who do not understand death.
The curse weighing on marriage is that individuals too often join together in their weakness and not in their strength, that each one asks of the other rather than finding pleasure in giving.
The best friend will probably get the best wife, because a good marriage is based on talent for friendship.
The bed is the whole of marriage.
That’s what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye’d otherwise have to confess.
Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.
