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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.
Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who read more
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
