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• Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
  -- William Congreve, "The Portable Curmudgeo...
• No man, examining his marriage intelligently, can fail to observe that it is compounded, at least in part, of slavery, and that he is the slave.
  -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), "The Portable Curmudgeo...
• Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
  Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience....
• To Oscar Levant: If you had it all over again, Oscar, would you fall in love with yourself?
• The first marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence, and the second the triumph of hope over experience.
• The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - sometimes three.
  -- Alexandre Dumas, "The Portable Curmudgeo...
• The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
  -- Christopher Morley, "The Portable Curmudgeo...
• Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel. -- Oscar Leva