Marriage has driven more than one man to sex.

The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.

Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another week. Then once every three or four days till the condition clears up.

Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?

Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.

Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously unemployable.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.