In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. – Gerald Brenan
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. – Gerald Brenan
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. – Gerald Brenan
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. – Gerald Brenan
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. – Gerald Brenan
We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. – Gerald Brenan
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. – G.B. Shaw, Getting Married, 1908