“Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.”
Source: The Small Bachelor
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P.G. Wodehouse 302
English author 1881–1975Related quotes
“Time will prolong time, and life will serve life.”
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Absurd Man
Context: Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives.
Quoted in Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations by Peter McDonald (Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 9 https://books.google.it/books?id=MuTnCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA9.
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“Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
Source: Letters and Papers from Prison
“Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.”
Detached Thoughts http://books.google.com/books?id=vVdSAAAAcAAJ&q=%22Marriage+is+the+cure+of+love+and+friendship+the+cure+of+marriage%22&pg=PA384#v=onepage, first published in Letters and Works of Philip Dormer Stanhope, volume 5 (1847)
And I said, "A glass of hemlock."
Pt. 2, Ch. 5
Papa Hemingway (1966)
“Love is love, but marriage is an investment.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)