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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the
constancy of its vows are the very people read more
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?
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their read more
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a lot of overlapping.
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he read more
No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
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. . . .
I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.
I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet read more
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.