Marriages

Yes, until it became clear that the marriage had irretrievably broken down.
Now one of the great reasons why so many husbands and wives make shipwreck of their lives together is because a man is always seeking for happiness, while a woman is on a perpetual still hunt for trouble.
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
I am to be married within these three days; married past redemption.
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."

As a general rule, people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

One fool at least in every married couple.
The two extremes appear like man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
Tho' marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools
Why don't they knead two virtuous souls for life Into that moral centaur, man and wife?

Wondering why one's friends chose to marry the people they did is unprofitable, but recurrent. One could so often have done so much better for them.

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do! I'm half crazy, all for the love of you! It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage, But you'll look sweet upon the seat Of a bicycle made for two!
"Old girl," said Mr Bagnet, "give him my opinion. You know it."
"When a man says he's willin'," said Mr Barkis, "it's as much as to say, that a man's waitin' for a answer."

MIRANDA I am your wife, if you will marry me; If not, I'll die your maid: to be your fellow You may deny me; but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no. FERDINAND My mistress, dearest; And thus I humble ever. MIRANDA My husband then? FERDINAND Ay, with a heart as willing As bondage e'er of freedom; here's my hand. MIRANDA And mine, with my heart in't.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
He was reputed one of the wise men, that made answer to the question, when a man should marry? A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

ALMA I rather suspect her of being in love with him. MARTIN Her own husband? Monstrous! What a selfish woman

DUKE ORSINO Let still the woman take An elder than herself; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart.

KATHERINA Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband.
Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all two.