Book Quote by Mae West Download Open image “Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.” — Mae West ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Marriage Stories Whole
There's this whole kind of fiction and image that marriage is perfect. — Ant Anstead Copy Share Image
“It is noteworthy that few works of fiction make marriage their central concern. As Northrup Frye puts it, with his accustomed clarity: 'The heroine who becomes a bride, and eventually, one assumes, a mother, on the last page of a romance, has accommodated herself to the cyclical movement: by her marriage...she completes the cycle and passes out of the story.… — Carolyn G. Heilbrun Copy Share
I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image
“Marriage is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.” — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
Part of my purpose in my books has been to tell the complete story of a relationship and a marriage, not just to end… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Marriage is a long event of perpetual change in which a man and a woman mutually build up their souls and make themselves whole. — DH Lawrence Copy Share Image
Marriage...a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to… — David Reuben Copy Share Image
Reason was nowhere, time was an immovable object nailed high on the wall, except where the world kept shop. — Mae West Copy Share Image
I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary. — Mae West Copy Share Image
In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood. — Mae West Copy Share Image
A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay. — Mae West Copy Share Image
Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child. — Mae West Copy Share Image
“If I can't a man with a million dollars, I'll a million men with one dollar.” — Mae West Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
