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  2. A close bond is possible only between two persons. A group of three engenders jealousy.

  3. A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.

  4. A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavours to present those of amity.

  5. A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky.

  6. A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.

  7. A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

  8. A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

  9. A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

 10. A man who marries a woman to educate her falls into the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

 11. After MARRIAGE, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.

 12. After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.

 13. All comedies are ended by a marriage.

 14. All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

 15. All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.

 16. As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

 17. Before marriage, a man yearns for the woman he loves. After marriage, the 'Y' becomes silent.

 18. But happy they, the happiest of their kind! Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate Their Hearts, their Fortunes, and their Beings blend.

 19. Don't marry for money, you can borrow it cheaper.

 20. Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

 21. Every man plays the fool once in his life, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.

 22. First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

 23. From of old the things that have acquired unity are these: Heaven by unity has become clear; Earth by unity has become steady; The Spirit by unity has become spiritual; The Valley by unity has become full; All things by unity have come into existence.

 24. Happy and thrice happy are they who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day.

 25. He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

 26. Honour not thy wife the less, because she is in thy power; and despise him that hath said, "Wouldst thou love her less? marry her!" What hath put her into thy power, but her confidence in thy virtue? Shouldst thou love her less, for being more obliged to her?

 27. How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

 28. I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children, and those who marry early with their partners.

 29. I know not which lives more unnatural lives, Obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

 30. If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say, talk in your sleep.

 31. If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.

 32. If you would have the nuptial union last, let virtue be the bond that ties it fast.

 33. If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

 34. In married life three is company and two is none.

 35. In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to be obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a beloved wife, or a happy mother.

 36. In the opinion of the world marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. - The truth is precisely the reverse; it begins all.

 37. It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

 38. I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

 39. Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

 40. Love is often a fruit of marriage.

 41. Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.

 42. Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative.

 43. Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

 44. Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.

 45. Marriage - a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves - making in all two.

 46. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

 47. Marriage is a covenant which hath nothing free but the entrance.

 48. Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the feast.

 49. Marriage is a great responsibility. Do not trust altogether to, or be beguiled by, the eye, for marriages are not to be contracted by the hands and eye, but with reason and the heart.

 50. Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

 51. Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

 52. Marriage is not a matter of two halves but of four quarters, (male-active, male-passive, female-passive, and female- active) uniting in balanced harmony of reciprocal fecundation.

 53. Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.

 54. Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

 55. Marriage is the best state for man in general; and everyman is a worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the married state.

 56. Marriage is the most natural state of man, and...the state in which you will find solid happiness.

 57. Marriage is the only adventure open to the timid.

 58. Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

 59. Marriage is when a man and woman become as one; the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.

 60. Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.

 61. Marriage, to tell the truth, is an evil, but it is a necessary evil.

 62. Matrimony - the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

 63. Men are April when they woo, December when they wed, and maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

 64. Men dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

 65. Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious: both are disappointed.

 66. Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterward.

 67. No happiness is like unto it, no love so great as that of man and wife, no such comfort as a sweet wife.

 68. No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, Nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; Each season looked delightful as it past, To the fond husband and the faithful wife.

 69. Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

 70. Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life.

 71. Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.

 72. One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

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

 74. One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

 75. One year of Joy, another of Comfort, the rest of Content, make the married Life happy.

 76. Remember thou art man's reasonable companion, not the slave of his passion; the end of thy being is not merely to gratify his loose desire, but to assist him in the toils of life, to soothe him with thy tenderness, and recompense his care with soft endearments.

 77. Second MARRIAGE is the triumph of hope over experience.

 78. So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.

 79. Society is the union of men but not men themselves; the citizen may perish, but man remains.

 80. Suspicion, Discontent, and Strife, Come in for Dowrie with a Wife.

 81. The boredom of married life is inevitably the death of love whenever love has preceded marriage.

 82. The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.

 83. The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

 84. The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures.

 85. The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from it.

 86. The moment a woman marries, some terrible revolution happens in her system; all her good qualities vanish, presto, like eggs out of a conjuror's box. 'Tis true that they appear on the other side of the box, but for the husband they are gone forever.

 87. The only real happy folk are married women and single men.

 88. The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.

 89. The wedlocks of minds will be greater than that of bodies.

 90. The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

 91. There are few women so perfect that their husbands do not regret having married them at least once a day.

 92. There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

 93. There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

 94. Tho' marriage be a lottery in which there are a wondrous many blanks, yet there is one inestimable lot in which the only heaven on earth is written.

 95. Thou shalt not separate thy being from BEING, and the rest, but merge the Ocean in the deep, the drop within the Ocean.

 96. Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure, Marry'd in haste, we may repent at leisure.

 97. To understand a holy unity, examine the flame rising from a candle. We see at first two kinds of light, one glistening white and one blue or black. The white light is above and rises in a straight line, the blue or black light is beneath and appears to be the source of the white; yet the two lights are so closely united they form one single flame. But the source formed by the blue or black light is, in turn, attached to the wick under it. The white light never changes, it always remains white; but several shades are distinguishable in the lower light. Moreover, the lower light moves in two opposite directions; above, it is connected to the white light, and below, it is attached to the burning matter; this matter continually consumes itself and rises toward the upper light. It is thus that all that is, reunites with the one unity.

 98. Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humoured, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.

 99. Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

100. Union does everything when it is perfect. - It satisfies desires, simplifies needs, foresees the wishes, and becomes a constant fortune.

101. Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

102. Unity requires a collective moral force, together with a great leader. Ancestors unite the clan, and heaven unites nature. With unity the time is right for great deeds.

103. Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.

104. We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall hang separately.

105. We're like the sea, people our waves; Necessarily we are associated with everyone.

106. What therefore God hath joined together let not man put asunder.

107. When a husband and wife have got each other, the devil only knows which has got the other.

108. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

109. When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.

110. When thou findest sensibility of heart, joined with softness of manners, an accomplished mind, with a form agreeable to thy fancy, take her home to thy house; she is worthy to be thy friend, thy companion in life, the wife of thy bosom.

111. When without any apparent cause a young wife, pulling her old husband by the hair and hugging him unmercifully, kisses him, there will be a reason for it.

112. Where there is unity there is always victory.

113. Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

114. You cannot pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

115. You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.