[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou be not ashamed, concubine ... And thou thyself wert not wholly unmindful of that ... [as in ] thou hast not disdained to set forth sundry rea...
We've come a long way from the time when the crowning achievement in a woman's life was her youthful marriage. And many would agree that this represents progress for women. But when did the search for someone to marry become self-absorbed and patheti...
Mortimer Brewster: Yeah, yeah, I know that bromide. Something borrowed, something blue - old, new! Rice and old shoes, carry you over the threshold, Niagara Falls - all the silly tripe I've made fun of for years. Is this what I've come to? I can't go...
There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.
If I – as a beneficiary of that exact formula – will concede that my own life was indeed enriched by that precise familial structure, will the social conservatives please (for once!) concede that this arrangement has always put a disproportionate...
These are early days, Trot, and Rome was not built in a day, nor in a year. You have chosen freely for yourself and you have chosen a very pretty and very affectionate creature. It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too – of course I k...
God first appeared on the scene of human history in the role of a matchmaker. What a profound and exciting revelation! Is it too much to suggest that Eve came to Adam on the arm of the Lord Himself in the same way that a bride today walks down the ai...
The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. ...
The French work to live, but the Swiss live to work.
Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.
Some days, the music is not in tune, but it's always a song worth singing. That's the best description of a good marriage I've ever heard...
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
Beauty is more a danger than intelligence or wit. One becomes a living mirror for the inadequacies of others.
I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.
There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse.
She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.
Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.
I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.
When we mother well, we teach our children to embrace the moral obligations that build solid relationships, healthy marriages, and secure families.
Anything of worth is costly: devotion to Christ, a strong marriage, financial responsibility, a life of integrity, and of course, fearlessly feminine mothering.
