SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT MARRIAGE

• ***In all matrimonial associations there is,I believe,one
  constant factor- a desire to deceive the person with
  whom one lives as to some weak spot in one's character
  or in one's career. For it is intolerable to live
  constantly with one human being who perceives one's
  small meanness.It is really death to do so- that is why
  so many marriages turn out unhappily.
  
  .......................................Ford Maddox Ford
  
  ***If the purpose of dinner is to nourish the body the man
  who eats two dinners at a sitting may perhaps attain
  greater enjoyment but not his object,since the stomach
  will not digest two dinners.
  
  If the purpose of marriage is the family the person who
  seeks to have a number of wives or husbands may possibly
  obtain much pleasure therefrom,but will not in any case
  have a family.
  
  .........................................Leo Tolstoy
  
  ***Divorce,in fact, is not the destruction of marriage,
  but the first condition of its maintenance.
  
  ...................................George Bernard Shaw
  
  ***Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is
  almost always a muddy horse-pond.
  
  ...................................Thomas Love Peacock
  
  ***The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two
  to bear them, and sometimes three.
  
  ..........................................Oscar Wilde
  
  ***The great secret of successful marriage is to treat
  all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents
  as disasters.
  
  .....................................Harold Nicholson
  
  ***Today, he admits, he gave his sons just one piece of
  advice."Never confuse I LOVE YOU with I WANT TO MARRY
  YOU."
  
  .......................................Cleveland Amory