"The reason why so few marriages are..." - Quote by Jonathan Swift

“A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.”

“Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.”

“Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.”

“There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.”

“Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.”

“This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.”

“No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over.”

“I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.”

“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.”