One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love read more

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with read more

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.

The heart of marriage is memories.

The heart of marriage is memories.

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the
constancy of its vows are the very people read more

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the
constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the
chain were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the
whole social fabric would fly asunder. You can't have the
argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in?
If he is not, why pretend that he is?

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on read more

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.