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By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. (Princess Diana )
It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination. (Princess Diana )
Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage. (Princess Diana )
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman. (Princess Diana )
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. (Princess Diana )
Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same. (Princess Diana )
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier. (Princess Diana )
I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late. (Princess Diana )
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. (Princess Diana )
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. (Princess Diana )
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. (Princess Diana )
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. (Princess Diana )
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership. (Princess Diana )
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect. (Princess Diana )
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. (Princess Diana )
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. (Princess Diana )
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. (Princess Diana )
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. (Princess Diana )
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage. (Princess Diana )
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. (Princess Diana )
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. (Princess Diana )
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