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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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds--they mature slowly.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds--they mature slowly.
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.
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy read more
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.
Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.
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
A good marriage is like a good trade: Each thinks he got the better deal.
A good marriage is like a good trade: Each thinks he got the better deal.
I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make read more
I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with read more
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
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.
