Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Marriage is the only legal contract which abrogates as between the parties all the laws that safeguard the particular relation to which it refers.

Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

Marriage, or any other form of promiscuous amoristic monogamy, is fatal to large States because it puts its ban on the deliberate breeding of man as a political animal.

Martyrdom … the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

Masters and servants are both tyrannical; but the masters are the more dependent of the two.

Mens sana in corpore sano is a foolish saying. The sound body is a product of the sound mind.

Moderation is never applauded for its own sake.