Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication.

Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American writer, businessman, philosopher

The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard [ed. E. Hubbard II] (1927)