The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our yawns.

True Love can be no deeper than your capacity for friendship, no higher than your ideals, and no broader than the scope of your vision.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Eternity: The interval between the time when a woman discovers that a man is in love with her and the time when he finds it out himself and tells her about it.

Some widowers are bereaved -- others, relieved.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

Love is a matter of give and take -- marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.