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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Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
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. . . .
She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been
extracted.
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been
extracted.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
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.
