125 Quotes by Myrtle Reed

Marriage is the cold potato of love.

When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.

marriage is a great strain upon love.

How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!

Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.

[On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out.

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.

... the song of the world is all of love.