A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.
Interpretation
Marriage brings a new understanding of happiness that can often come too late.
Frank Sinatra's quote conveys the idea that true happiness is often a realization that occurs within the context of marriage; however, by the time one understands what happiness truly is, they may already be entrenched in the complexities of married life. This suggests that marriage comes with challenges that can obscure the joy it brings until one has experienced it fully.
In practice
During a wedding toast, one might reflect on the nature of happiness in marriage by quoting Sinatra.
With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
There have been many accolades uttered about Elvis' talent and performances through the years, all of which I agree with wholeheartedly. I shall miss him dearly as a friend. He was a warm, considerate and generous man.
Dare to wear the foolish clown face.
I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps
I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission.
Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool.
A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
Like how could you do nothing,_x000D_ and say, 'I'm doing my best.'_x000D_ How could you take almost everything,_x000D_ and then come back for the rest?_x000D_ How could you beg me to stay,_x000D_ reach out your hands and plead,_x000D_ and then pack up your eyes and run away_x000D_ as soon as I agreed?
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