Age Quote by Naguib Mahfouz

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations…

— Randy Neugebauer

Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my…

— Shereen El Feki

I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years.

— Juan Cole

It may be said of happy marriages as of the phoenix - there is but one a century.

— Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?

— Unita Blackwell

“And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart,…

— John Green

“Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of…

— Shannon L. Alder

“The decadence which did occur in the Islamic world belongs to a much later period of Islamic history than is usually claimed. This fact…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“It is said that marriage is a long war between ancient families trapped in close proximity by lust.”

— Mark Helprin

“A hundred years of scholarly thinking has stretched back a million-fold the age of the Earth. But these same diviners, antiquarians and scholars are…

— Doris Lessing

“But that's Islam in the third millennium: they want the certainties of seventh-century society with the conveniences of the twenty-first century.”

— Mark Steyn