Bird Quote by Joan Fontaine Download Open image “Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.” — Joan Fontaine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bird Institutions Marriage
[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the institution of marriage anymore. It's redundant; it's an outdated institution. It's like lanterns in a house, you don't use… — Vikram Bhatt Copy Share Image
Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I don't think marriage is in the cards for me. I think it's an archaic institution. — CM Punk Copy Share Image
marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia (sister Olivia de Havilland) did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I… — Joan Fontaine Copy Share Image
My sister is a very peculiar lady. When we were young, I wasn't allowed to talk to her friends. Now I'm not allowed to… — Joan Fontaine Copy Share Image
One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them. — Joan Fontaine Copy Share Image
[On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them? — Joan Fontaine Copy Share Image
You know, I've had a helluva life. Not just the acting part. I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane.… — Joan Fontaine Copy Share Image
The real problem with men- they can only think six inches into the future. The real problem with women- they have only half a… — Joan Fontaine Copy Share Image
It's better to be on a soap opera to renew your career and following than to be on any other medium. — Joan Fontaine Copy Share Image
“Being a woman, I have found the road rougher than had I been born a man. Different defenses, different codes of ethics, different approaches… — Joan Fontaine Copy Share Image
The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's… — Joan Fontaine Copy Share Image
I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things. — Joan Fontaine Copy Share Image
And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start… — Red Auerbach Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great… — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway,… — Patrick MacGill Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment,… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself,… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image