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It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon1561–1626Essays (1625)
Ah, yes, divorce…from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.
Robin Williams1951–2014“Robin Williams: ‘Divorce is like ripping a man’s genitals out through his wallet’”, Judith Woods, The Telegraph, (12 Aug 2014).
- Marriage
Whoso loves believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861Aurora Leigh (1857), Bk. V
The whole purpose of a husband and wife is that when hard times knock at the door you should be able to embrace each other.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013
- Marriage
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784
I was in love with loving.
Augustine of Hippo354–430III, 1
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets.
Ogden Nash1902–1971
- Marriage
They say love is around every corner. I must be walking in circles.
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If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
Victor Hugo1802–1885
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
HSHerbert Samuel
- Marriage
And what’s romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it’s always daisy-time.
D. H. Lawrence1885–1930
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847), Part II, section 1.