If you get married they think you’re finished and if you are without a woman they think you’re incomplete.
If you believe not being a cuckold is such a fine thing, the best policy is not to get married at all.[Si n’être point cocu vous semble un si grand bien, Ne vous point marier en est le vrai moyen.]
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.[Если боитесь одиночества, то не женитесь.]
If we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police.[Also known as:]Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.
If relationships were hard, marriage was even harder.
If I were obliged to marry all those with whom I have jested, I should have at least two hundred wives.
If a man cannot distinguish the difference between the pleasures of two consecutive nights, he has married too early.[Si un homme ne sait pas distinguer la différence des plaisirs de deux nuits consécutives, il s’est marié trop tôt.]
Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.
I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly: I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.
I think marriage is the hottest furnace of the spirit today. Much more difficult than solitude, much more challenging for people who want to work on themselves. It’s a situation in which there are no alibis, excruciating most of the time… but it’s only in this situation that any kind of work can be done.
I promise you to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won’t appear in my sky every day.[Я обещаю быть великолепным мужем, но дайте мне такую жену, которая, как луна, являлась бы на моем небе не каждый день.]
