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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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having read more
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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.
A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, read more
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.
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder; God will
take care of that.
What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder; God will
take care of that.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.
I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man read more
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
