- Quotes by Laurence Sterne
“I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me”. - Quotes by Stanislaus
“Men and women, in marrying, make a vow to love one another. Would it not be better for their happiness if they made a vow to please one another?” - Quotes by Toblas Smollett
“A seafaring man may have a sweetheart in every port; but he should steer clear of a wife as he would avoid a quicksand”. - Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion”. - Quotes by Percy ByssheShelley
“A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage”. - Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
“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 left free to choose, the whole social fabric would asunder. You cannot 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. Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse. Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo”.
Tags: Family Life Home And Marriage, George Bernard Shaw, Laurence Sterne, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Stanislaus, Toblas Smollett
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