A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.
I'd rather be happily single than unhappily married.
It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
Married life is absolutely brilliant.
What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.
Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.