“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.” – Samuel Johnson

“An old man who marries a young wife grows younger – but she grows older.” – folk saying

“It is not uncommon for slight acquaintances to get married, but a couple really have to know each other to get divorced.” – anonymous quote

“Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant.” – John Updike

“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.” – Goethe

“The people people have for friends
Your common sense appall
But the people people marry
Are the queerest folk of all.”
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“Do not marry a man to reform him. That is what reform schools are for.” – Mae West

“A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.” – Don Fraser

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, and always with the same person.” – Mignon McLaughlin

“Marriage is a fine institution – but I’m not ready for an institution.” – Mae West