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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are read more
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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 good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The read more
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
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
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
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. . . .
