Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house. |
Marriage is not a reform school. |
In every house of marriage/there's room for an interpreter. |
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward. |
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. |
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. |
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. |
Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one. |
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague. |
Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three-meals-a-day and remembering to carry out the trash. |