"Between two married couples there are five possibilities for friendship: man to man, woman to woman, each man to the woman not his wife, and couple to couple. It's seldom that more than two of these will actually materialize."

"When a woman reaches forty, she must wait twenty years for her husband to catch up."

"As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can."

"How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born."

"The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it."

"A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species."

"No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive."

"The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love."

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

"After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage!"

"Money is the best counterfeit money."

"When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy."

"If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail."

"If you made a list of the reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping."

"The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which."

"We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. People might not return it; or worse, they might."

"The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever."

"I am as I am" is another way of saying "I can do without your love."

"When we have been humiliated by someone we love, it takes all our strength to pretend to recover from it."

"How strange that the young should always think the world is against them when in fact that is the only time it is for them."

"When a man comes to love a woman exactly as she had dreamed, she decides he is a weakling."

"Love is often gentle, desire always a rage."

"Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name."

"When we first fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right."

"The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind."

"If everyone gave a tenth of his worldly goods to the person he most admired, the rich would just get richer."

"We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?"

"Money is much more exciting than anything it buys."

"It is a feeling at once stimulating and flat, to know that someone you do not love is in love with you."

"What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures."

"The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all."

"No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved."

"Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and difficult as that."

"Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones."

"People who won't have a TV set in their house get more pleasure from their refusal than most of us get from TV."

"Sooner or later, they govern who are determined to."

"Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be."

"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing."

"If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday."