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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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?
Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?
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.
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
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?
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man read more
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
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.
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life
