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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.
If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
Same-sex marriage is not the future.
Same-sex marriage is not the future.
