“Not for the first time Spooner was reminded that marriage was not the straighforward assembly the instruction book led you to believe.”
“Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.”
“Marriage is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.”
“People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.”
“We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed”
“Too many books. . . too many fairy tales led him to believe that there was something romantic in being a soldier.”