Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.
One never knows when one is old for certain.
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
Judges don't age. Time decorates them.
Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.
After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.