Calamity Quote by Marthe Bibesco Download Open image “marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.” — Marthe Bibesco ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Calamity Career Marriage Occupation
There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Until the Second World War, it was unthinkable for a married woman of the working or middle class to disgrace her husband by working… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois. — Carla Bruni Copy Share Image
It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort. — Jessica Savitch Copy Share Image
“In modern marriage, then, what was once a difference of work became a division of work. And in this division the household was destroyed as a practical bond between husband and wife. It was no longer a condition, but only a place. It was no longer a circumstance that required, dignified, and rewarded the enactment of mutual dependence, but the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
I believe passionately that the notion of having to work at a marriage is baloney. Making sacrifices and being a martyr makes one hell… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty. — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified. — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corpse… — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries. — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
Children never grow tired; their likes and dislikes are constant; let them laugh at something once and they laugh always; do what you will,… — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation. — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness. — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
The arts are good and providential in that they allow the soul to imitate the movements of love, and to feel love without its… — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will take care of itself. You do not tidy up a dark room. You open the windows first. Letting in the light makes everything easy. So, let us wait with improving others until we see ourselves as we are/… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
In spite of calamity, He still has a plan for me, And it’s working for my good, And it’s building my testimony... — Marvin Sapp Copy Share Image
Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it does not… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a big lesson in experiencing uncertainty and calamity with a sober focus - the most chaotic moments are the ones from which… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
