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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier read more
Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage?
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.
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are read more
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
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.
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on read more
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
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.