Zitat des Tages über Eheleben / Married Life:
Married life is awesome.
In Egypt, where my research is focused, I have seen plenty of trouble in and out of the citadel. There are legions of young men who can't afford to get married, because marriage has become a very expensive proposition. They are expected to bear the burden of costs in married life, but they can't find jobs.
If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.
Married life is the same as dating life, except now you have a ring, and the state of California has a vested financial interest in the outcome of your marriage.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
Married life is an existence with bars around it.
In married life three is company and two none.
A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
Married life is absolutely brilliant.
