When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell; it is simply purgatory.

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

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.