“In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.”– Robert Louis Stevenson Related Quotes “So she is pretty and he is rich. No doubt society will judge it an excellent match. I know my father does thus a woman he found intolerable for his son is in turn found ideal for his associate. strange isn’t it how it’s the direction we are viewed from that makes us attractive or abhorrent”— Galen Beckett “If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.”– Phil McGraw “What most couples fail to realize is that marriage vows denote change.”— Elona Washington