Samuel Johnson·1759Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Jane Austen·1813It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Friedrich Nietzsche·1882It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
