A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
O fortunate bride, who never again will become elated after childbirth! O lucky older wife, who has been cured of feeling unwanted!
A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.
The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.
The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living in that house enjoyed true happiness.
I've got a happy marriage, which is the most important singular thing.
Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.
If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.
A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.
Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.
All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life.
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
I was surprised to learn that research showed arranged couples tended to be happier in the long run.
