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?
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A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all read more
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their read more
People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The read more
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier read more
Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage?
