~Ogden Nash

Here's to matrimony, the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented!  ~Heinrich Heine


The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.  ~Ogden Nash

I figure that the degree of difficulty in combining two lives ranks somewhere between rerouting a hurricane and finding a parking place in downtown Manhattan.  ~Claire Cloninger, "When the Glass Slipper Doesn't Fit and the Silver Spoon is in Someone Else's Mouth"