Quotes
Quotes about Age
In how many lives does Love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.
Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage which we did not take, Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
When you fall , you damage when you fall in love with somebody your love for them stays with you forever if you fall out of love, you where never really in love once you fall, you can't fall out of it, you only fall.
There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.
As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Value of a man depends upon his courage; his veracity depends upon his self-respect and his chastity depends upon his sense of honor.
All the world's a stage, And all the men and merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts....
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
March: Its motto, "Courage and strength in times of danger."
Experience, though non auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynough to me To speke of wo that is in mariage. . . .
Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
The heart of marriage is memories.
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You can't have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in again.
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
