Into Motivation

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

Quotes by Robert Burns "To make a happy fireside clime, To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime, Of human life. Ah, gentle dames' it gars me greet, To think how mony counsels sweet, How mony lengthen'd, sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises!" Quotes by Charlotte Bronte "If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar, weak sense, as a mere matter of sentiment. Alfred and I intended ... Read More

Quotes by Sir Winston Churchill "There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. Lady Astor: If I were your wife, I should flavour your coffee with poison! Sir Winston: And If I were your husband, madam, I should drink it". Quotes by Dame Agatha Christie "An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested  he is in her". Quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot ... Read More