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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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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?
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 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.
The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to read more
The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always read more
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
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: A word which should be pronounced "mirage";.
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage";.
Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a
bicycle repair kit.
Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a
bicycle repair kit.
