companionship

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

In the race for love I was scratched.

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

The bravest thing that men do is love women.

A woman has to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.

We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same.

Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Marrying for love may be a bit risky but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

[Being in love] is something like poetry. Certainly you can analyze it and expound its various senses and intentions but there is always something left over mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons longing as all individuals do to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals can participate in a relationship that for the moment is not of two isolated selves but a union.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her . . . but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

"The whole world loves a lover" is an interesting theory but a very bad legal defense.

What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife When Friendship love and peace combine To stamp the marriage bond divine?

So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it and sometimes three.

We are in the same boat

I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it.