Quotation by Robert Benchley

Consider the number of young people all over the world who are getting married, day in and day out, for no other reason than that someone of the opposite sex looks well in a green jersey or sings baritone, and then tell me that divorce has reached menacing proportions. The surface of divorce has not even been scratched yet.
Robert Benchley (1889–1945), U.S. writer, humorist. My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew, "Lucky World," Harper & Brothers (1936).
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