It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

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.

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.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.