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 love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest read more
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
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.
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?
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation
with the maximum of opportunity.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation
with the maximum of opportunity.
Experience, though non auctoritee
Were in this world, is right ynough to me
To speke of wo read more
Experience, though non auctoritee
Were in this world, is right ynough to me
To speke of wo that is in mariage. . . .
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.
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage";.
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage";.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she read more
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
