Into Motivation

Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez "The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast". Quotes by Sir Compton Mackenzie "Prostitution. Selling one's body to keep one's soul: this is the meaning of the sins that were forgiven to the woman because she loved much: one might say of most marriages that they were selling one's soul to keep one's body". Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The men that women marry, And why they marry ... Read More

Quotes by William Shakespeare "She's beautiful and therefore to be woo'd, She is a woman, therefore to be won. This is the way to kill a wife with kindness. Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman owenth to her husband. Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O world of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear. It is a wise father that knows ... Read More

Quotes by Christopher Morley "There is no prince or prelate, I envy - no, not one. No evil can befall me - By God, I have a son". Quotes by Thomas Moore "Come, come," said Tom's father, " at your time of life, There's no longer excuse for thus playing the rake - It is time you should think, boy, of taking a wife -"Why, so it is, father - whose wife shall I take?" Quotes by William Cosmo Monkhouse "There was an old party of Lyme, ... Read More

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 ... Read More

Quotes by Margaret Hilda "I could combine being a good mother with being an effective professional woman, as long as I organized everything intelligently down to the last detail. We have become a grandmother". Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray "This I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Remember, it's as easy to marry whom she likes. Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman". ... Read More

Quotes by Jane Austen "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love to matrimony in a moment. Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. What is the difference in matrimonial affairs between the mercenary and the prudent motive? Lord, how ashamed I should be of not beings married before three and twenty! A ... Read More

Quotes by Henry Clay Work "Father, dear father, come home with me now, The clock in the steeple strikes one". Quotes by Virginia Woolf "Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England". Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft "The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason". Quotes by Sir Pelham Greville Wodehouse "It is no use telling me ... Read More