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.
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Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
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?
Marriage equality changed life for people.
Marriage equality changed life for people.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation
with the maximum of opportunity.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation
with the maximum of opportunity.
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold read more
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
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.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she read more
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
