Emotions and Feelings

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one you’ll become a philosopher .

And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

A marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies are ended by a marriage.

Love the quest; marriage the conquest; divorce the inquest.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.