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This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard's mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private school teacher herself.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

When marrying, one should ask oneself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this woman into your old age?

It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results; but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

When people get married because they think it's a long - time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.