In every marriage more than a week old there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.

For it is mutual trust even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

In marriage a man becomes slack and selfish and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Marriage is one long conversation chequered by disputes.

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

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes or staring when you were in a fit of laughter would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

I'm not for gay marriage but I'm not for discriminating against people.

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

I don't think marriage is a civil right but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that I think express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.