"Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate."
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
Mignon McLaughlin on Marriage"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."
Socrates on Marriage"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
Friedrich Nietzsche on Marriage"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
Oscar Wilde on Marriage"Don't marry the person you think you can live with marry only the individual you think you can't live without."
James C. Dobson on Marriage"Now is the age of anxiety."
"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
"'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'"
"It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it."
"What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish."