if you get married they think you're
finished
and if you are without a woman they think you're
incomplete.

هل يكمل الرجل إلا بالعشق ؟

There are men to whom a marriage is eternal and who are crippled for ever when it ends, largely, I think, because of the passion and completeness of their own contribution to it. They embark their all in one frail craft, and, if that goes, the wreck is total.

And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.

A married man is only half a man.

"True love cannot begin until the "in love" experience has run it's course."

true love cannot begin until the in-love experience has run its course.

In fact, true love cannot begin until the in-love experience has run its course.

A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

In marriage, you will continue to have problems until you understand yourselves well. And it takes a lot of time for both parties to understand themselves. So, if you are looking for a perfect man, you will die old ,wretched and wrinkled.

A man and a woman who, in their young days, agree to have done with sentimental life thereby renounce the search for adventure, the intoxication of new encounters, and the amazing refreshment produced by falling in love again. Their most vital source of energy is cut off; they are doomed to premature insensibility. Their life, scarcely begun, is finished. Nothing can break the monotony of an existence made up of burdens and duties. No further hope, no surprises, no conquests. Their one love will soon be tainted by the cares of housekeeping and the children's education. They will reach old age without ever having known the joys of youth. Marriage destroys romantic love which alone could justify it.

Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God.

There's nobody as lonely as an all-married man.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.