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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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.
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.
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.
They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
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.
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
