“Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.”
Source: The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)
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“They do not love that do not show their love.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.”
Source: The comedy of Neil Simon
Source: The Spectator: with sketches of the lives of the authors, an index, and explanatory notes
“He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.”
Source: The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings
“Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.”
Source: Aeschylus II: The Oresteia
“When a match has equal partners then I fear not.”
Source: Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound
“Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.”
“Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
“It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.”
“He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.”
“How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.”
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan
“That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
“Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.”
Source: Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel
Source: Selected poems
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
Source: Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
“a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude”
Source: Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)
“I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.”
Source: A Kingdom of Dreams
“A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…
Source: The Power of Myth
“grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.”
Source: The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
“I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.”