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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Same-sex marriage is not the future.
Same-sex marriage is not the future.
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
The heart of marriage is memories.
The heart of marriage is memories.
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
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.
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
Experience, though non auctoritee
Were in this world, is right ynough to me
To speke of wo read more
Experience, though non auctoritee
Were in this world, is right ynough to me
To speke of wo that is in mariage. . . .
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life
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.
