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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.
Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?
Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always read more
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
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 secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
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.
Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.
Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.
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.
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.