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He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all read more
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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.
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.
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
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.
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?
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.