Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom
marriage
A selected quote by Karl Kraus.
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom
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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry
Wedding: A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains, my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk
Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with