They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
It's true that romance novels do detail the courtship phase of a relationship. We usually write 'And they lived happily ever after' before our heroine starts snoring or our hero starts tossing his socks over the hamper.
I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way.
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
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