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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Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
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.
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.
Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.
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 only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him
so completely that he loses read more
The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him
so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
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.
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages.
You can't divorce a book.
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages.
You can't divorce a book.
