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.

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.

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.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

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.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.