“A woman might save him from a heart attack, but she ll kill him in every other way.”
“I asked him what his work was. He answered that he devoted all his time to his political activities... He was undoubtedly busy with the diplomatic relations between his testicles and women s breast.”
“…Mrs. Warren allowed her book to fall closed upon her lap, and her attractive face awakened to an expression of agreeable expectation, in itself denoting the existence of interesting and desirable qualities in the husband at the moment inserting his latch-key in the front door preparatory to mounting the stairs and joining her. The man who, after twenty-five years of marriage, can call, by his return to her side, this expression to the countenance of an intelligent woman is, without question or argument, an individual whose life and occupations are as interesting as his character and points of view.”
“Would you like to become my wife? Imbecile! What a question. It s my greatest dream!!!”
“Love is a flame of light.”
“Married couples must pray and study the Bible daily.”
“Love me, desire me and pray for me.”
“I thought we were perfect for each other. There s no such thing as perfect, Eli commiserated.”
“My darling, pray daily for me, this is my special request.”
“My lover, best friend and husband, Sweetheart, every time you think of me, say a prayer for me!”
“I’ve married a man who is so afraid of living, he’d rather destroy the very thing that makes him feel alive.”
“We re a mess, Kate.”
“When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.”
“Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.”
“I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.”
“There are guys who grow up thinking they ll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they re pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find.”
“Never Let anyone tell you that you can t; show them that you can.”