Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.

In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.

The hardest thing in life is to learn which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise.

The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.

It seems as if marriage were the royal road through life, and realised, on the instant, what we have all dreamed on summer Sundays when the bells ring, or at n…

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.