By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher...and that is a good thing for any man.

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

My son, to find a good wife, look at the way she treats her family. Remember that you too will become her family once you marry her.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.