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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind -- intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest -- never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Progress of a marriage: "There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage, just like the rhythm of a courtship -- only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first: showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family -- a domestic church.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says "What would I do without you?" is already destroyed.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, a woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, "until death doth part.