Men will not change as long as women ‘marry up.’ Men won't change until we have a perspective on how powerless power makes us. A woman cannot help a man change until she has a perspective on how powerless power makes men.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

My dear
colleagues, as you know, the greatest misfortune for a man is a happy marriage; he hasn't the
slightest hope of a divorce.

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

I, marry? Oh, I could never bring myself to do it. I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, "That's a pretty little thing," after I had finished a picture.

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

Marriage is a desperate thing.

In marriage, you will continue to have problems until you understand yourselves well. And it takes a lot of time for both parties to understand themselves. So, if you are looking for a perfect man, you will die old ,wretched and wrinkled.

There's nobody as lonely as an all-married man.

I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man nothing but instant flight could save him.

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

There are men to whom a marriage is eternal and who are crippled for ever when it ends, largely, I think, because of the passion and completeness of their own contribution to it. They embark their all in one frail craft, and, if that goes, the wreck is total.

The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.

One is almost driven to the cynical conclusion that men are only decent when they are powerless.