“A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.”
Zsa Zsa Gabor (1917–2016) Hungarian-American socialite and actress
Newsweek, March 28, 1960
“The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.”
Source: A Woman of No Importance
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