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"We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration."
"When she had first crossed the dry and dusty world which his mind inhabited she had been like a spring shower; in opening himself to it he had not been mistaken. He had gone wrong only in assuming that marriage, by itself, gave him either power or title to appropriate that freshness. As he now saw, one might as well have thought one could buy a sunset by buying the field from which one had seen it."
"The romantic person instinctively sees marriage in terms of emotions, but what a couple actually gets up to together over a lifetime has much more in common with the workings of a small business. They must draw up work rosters, clean, chauffeur, cook, fix, throw away, mind, hire, fire, reconcile, and budget."
"Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement."
"I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?"
"Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder."
Explore more quotes by George Bernard Shaw
"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."
"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."
"Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself."
"The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all."
"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
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