The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De VriesIn marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Robert Louis StevensonMarriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
Thomas Love PeacockMarriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Washington Irving