This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents--were they the stuff of Literature? At best, they might aspire to the condition of onlookers and bystanders, part of a social backdrop against which real, true, important things could happen. Like what? The things Literature was about: Love, sex, morality, friendship, happiness, suffering, betrayal, adultery, good and evil, heroes and villains, guilt and innocence, ambition, power, justice, revolution, war, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, the individual against society, success and failure, murder, suicide, death, God.

Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement.

A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies.

Jealousy from a love affair is something even God can admit.

Nature programmed the neurobiological processes of early love to appear as something beyond the primitive sexual cravings of the genitals. So, from an evolutionary standpoint, it all leads to copulation and reproduction, but from the perspective of the individual who has recently fallen head over heels in love with someone, it is mostly about a sensation of warmth and delight, and rarely of sexual nature.

Males of all species are made for wooing females, and females typically choose among their suitors. If you take a closer look, you can observe such behavior all around you. The beautiful bird chirping outside your window. It's a mating call. That pretty little bird is trying to attract a potential mate, so that it can propagate its genes. Why does the peacock have such beautiful feathers? It is to attract a healthy female. He as well is trying to propagate his genes. Even we humans, are not much different from the rest of the animal kingdom when it comes to attracting potential mates. When women dress up for their night out at the club, they are doing so to look attractive. This is a subconscious evolutionary desire to attract as many potential mates as possible.... While women tend to grab attention with their looks, men on the other hand, tend to attract as many potential females as possible, by showing off their resources. When a man shows off with his fancy car, expensive gold watch and suit, or flexes his muscles and brags about how many credit cards he owns, he's doing so to make himself desirable by healthy women, in order to propagate his genes. It is all in the pursuit of reproduction.

To defile your body is to quench the Holy Spirit.

How could be be sanctified? By avoiding sexual immorality.

To live only for pleasure is to die while living.

He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it.

I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

It can take a man several marriages to understand the importance of monogamy.

Madame, you must really be more careful. Suppose it had been someone else who found you like this.

A man is only as faithful as his options.

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

I said to the wife, Guess what I heard in the pub? They reckon the milkman has made love to every woman in this road except one. And she said, I'll bet it's that stuck-up Phyllis at number 23.

-Why did you desert your wife for another woman? -Because I am a bastard.

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

The first thrill of adultery is entering the house. Everything there has been paid for by the other man.