Life and Existence

Love is more afraid of change than destruction.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

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.

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

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

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.

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

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

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anesthetic.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

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

In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.