A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
The first condition of marriage between a man and a woman is that both must belong to each other totally.
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.