Freedom Quote by Peter De Vries Download Open image “Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness” — Peter De Vries ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Freedom Happiness Lottery Lottery Men Marriage Marriage Lottery Women Happiness
Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save,… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan 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 isn't just domesticity, or the continuance of the race, or institutionalized sex, or a form of property right. And it damned well isn't… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children. — Jack Kingston Copy Share Image
Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to,… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Marriage is a mutual admiration society where one person is always right, the other is the husband. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
“Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of [parenthood] is not that adults produce children but… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues.… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
We live in the greatest country in the world because of the veterans who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom and the security… — Jon Husted Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“No one was more surprised than I to realize that my newfound freedom had been purchased by giving up on eternity and settling for… — Carolyn Jessop Copy Share Image
“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
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