Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes

I 've been married so much in my life that I never really had lovers, so it's been a fun time. Hopefully the men are enjoying it as well.

Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

Marry somebody you love. That's the whole thing. And continue to love them.

It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.

Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.

On the path to love, impossibilities are resolved by turning non-love into love.

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

I’m happily married. I’ve got more than enough to eat at home.

These things end,” she said. “They always end. Nobody marries their first love. First love is just that. First. It’s implied that something else will follow.

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

It is impossible for a man to love his wife whole heartedly without loving all women somewhat. I suppose that the converse must be true of women.

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.

Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.

Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.

You sleep with a man, that's your husband. So make sure before you lay down, you love him.

For many little girls, life with father is a dress rehearsal for love and marriage.

People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

Dating is not only a wonderful time of life, but also a context for enormous spiritual and personal growth. You learn so much about yourself, others, God, love, spirituality, and life through dating. Done well, it can be fulfilling in and of itself. Done well, it can be one of the most fun and rewarding aspects of your life. Done well, it can lead to a good marriage.

The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

Love either finds equality or makes it.

I never felt comfortable about my looks until I married Reed Vreeland. I believe in love at first sight because that's what it was. I knew the moment our eyes met that we would marry.

To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road.

Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.