Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later. For another thing, they die earlier.

-Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)
  Chrestomathy, ch.30

   Advice to persons about to marryödon't.

-Punch

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

-Rowland, Helen
  Reflections of a Bachelor Girl.

There's almost as many different sorts of marriage as there's different sorts of people. There's the young things that marry for love, not knowing what they're doing, and the old things that marry for moneyand comfort and companionship. There's the people that marry for children. There's the people that don't intend to have children and that aren't fit to have them. There's the peoplethat marry becausethey're so much run after by the other sex that they have to put a stop to it somehow. There's the people that want to trya new experience, and the people that want to have done with experiences.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Bill Collins. Getting Married.

The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
Virginibus Puerisque,'Virginibus Puerisque', pt.1.

I see women marry indiscriminately with staring burgesses and ferret-faced, white-eyed boys, and men dwell in contentment with noisy scullions, or taking into their lives acidulous vestals.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
Virginibus Puerisque,'Virginibus Puerisque', pt.1.

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule) no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
Virginibus Puerisque,'Virginibus Puerisque', pt.1.

To marry is to domesticate the Recording Angel.Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
Virginibus Puerisque,'Virginibus Puerisque', pt.2.

What theydo in heaven we are ignorant of: what theydo not we aretold expressly, that they neither marry, norare given in marriage.

-Swift,Jonathan
Thoughts onVarious Subjects.

But I knaw'd a Quaa«  ker feller as often 'as towd ma this: 'Doa«  nt thou marry for munny, but goa«   wheer munny is!'

-Tennyson
  'Northern Farmer. New Style', stanza 5.

A woman with fair opportunities and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes.

-Thackeray,William Makepeace
^8  Rebecca Sharp.Vanity Fair, ch.4.

Remember, it is as easy to marrya rich woman as a poor woman.

-Thackeray,William Makepeace
^50  Pendennis, ch.28.

The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one ofthevital personal rights essentialtotheorderly pursuit of happiness by free men.

-Warren, Earl
  2 Jun. Unanimous ruling against aVirginian law forbidding intermarriage of blacks and whites.

Chumps always make the best husbands.When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his forehead first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.

-Plum
  TheAdventures of Sally, ch.10.