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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.
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
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.
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages.
You can't divorce a book.
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages.
You can't divorce a book.
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The read more
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the
constancy of its vows are the very people read more
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the
constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the
chain were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the
whole social fabric would fly asunder. You can't have the
argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in?
If he is not, why pretend that he is?
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.
The homegrown tomato is best
(in reference to choosing a marriage partner).
The homegrown tomato is best
(in reference to choosing a marriage partner).
No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he read more
No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
