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- Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
- Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
- The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- I don't like her. But don't misunderstand me: my dislike is purely platonic.
- Herbert Beerbohm Tree
- Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- He who marries a widow will often have a dead man's head thrown in his dish.
- Spanish proverb
- The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
- John Gay (1685 - 1732)
- One should never know too precisely whom one has married.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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