top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Books and marriage go ill together."
Standard
Customized
More
"We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When she had first crossed the dry and dusty world which his mind inhabited she had been like a spring shower; in opening himself to it he had not been mistaken. He had gone wrong only in assuming that marriage, by itself, gave him either power or title to appropriate that freshness. As he now saw, one might as well have thought one could buy a sunset by buying the field from which one had seen it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Marriage is but a consolidation of resources."
Author Name
Personal Development
"God desires that we develop spiritual muscle so we are strong enough to be His kind of wife."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The romantic person instinctively sees marriage in terms of emotions, but what a couple actually gets up to together over a lifetime has much more in common with the workings of a small business. They must draw up work rosters, clean, chauffeur, cook, fix, throw away, mind, hire, fire, reconcile, and budget."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood."
Talk
"No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living."
Life
"True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise."
Compromise
"There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket."
Praise
"Books and marriage go ill together."
Marriage
"People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything."
Quality
"Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive."
Man
"There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage."
Courage
"It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right."
Right
"It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh."
People
bottom of page