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A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, read more
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.
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
 What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder; God will 
take care of that.  
 What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder; God will 
take care of that. 
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds--they mature slowly.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds--they mature slowly.
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.
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
 Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I 
twice failed rather disgracefully.  
 Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I 
twice failed rather disgracefully. 
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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.