Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage?
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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.
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.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always read more
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
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.
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man read more
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
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.
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.
Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.
People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their read more
People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.
