Choices Quote by Alain de Botton

“...meanwhile, strength of body and mind are sacrificed to libertine notions of beauty, to the desire of establishing themselves, the only way women can…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to…

— Christian Cantrell

“Nevertheless, we cannot escape the suspicion that individuality might be inhibited by marriage, and we wonder whether people in open relationships might not really…

— Daniel Bullen

“Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate “relationship” involving (ideally) two successful careerists in…

— Wendell Berry

“Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live.”

— Ludwig von Mises

“But nearly all of the people I have ever met in this western society in which I live would agree to the general proposition…

— G.K. Chesterton

“It is one of my decided opinions that married people ought to have no one, be the tie ever so close and dear, living…

— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

“Romance leads to marriage, but love keeps the marriage alive.”

— Toni Sorenson

“Many of the pains and efforts taken to deal with the contemporary marriage are dominated by considerations of well-being, happiness, and biology. This corresponds…

— Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig

“Marriage is the art of balancing the desires of each, within the hearts of both, and doing so without uneven sacrifice of either.”

— Renee Duvall

“Romance is a veiled reality, while marriage is the unveiling of reality!”

— Dr. Vivencio Ballano

“Marriage is based on a more enduring kind of love.”

— Kate Atkinson