"Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three."
― Washington Irving
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Marriage
More From Washington Irving
- "There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place."
- "Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love."
- "Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You’re never as good as you’d like to be. So there’s always something to hope for."
More In Marriage
- "There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends."― Homer
- "This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger."― Shelley Fabares
- "Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil."― Menander