Marriage Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Marriage People Prudence Reason Wedding
People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
True it is, as society is instituted, marriage becomes somewhat of a lottery, for all its votaries are either the victims of Cupid or… — Arthur Frederick Saunders Copy Share Image
People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is that marriage… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life. — Donna Woolfolk Cross Copy Share Image
They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage; the requisite Means being wanting. — William Penn Copy Share Image
“While marriage in the first instance is for the benefit of the contracting parties, both physical, mental, and spiritual, each must take the longer… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is the most… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“Some marry because they are in love. Others marry to have sex ... without the guilt.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic. — John Whiting Copy Share Image
I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my… — Jane Powell Copy Share Image
Luckily, the bullet that hit my chest never got to me. It was stopped by a silver case I got for my brother's wedding. — James Doohan Copy Share Image
Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thing about hitting kids is, think about if you were doing the same thing to another adult. Hitting your kid is really the… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
“Take an interest in his appearance. Keeping his clothes in order is your job; encouraging him to look his best, and admiring him when… — Ellen Baker Copy Share Image
Females always say, you can't turn a hoe into a house wife, but steady be trying to turn a dog into a faithful man… — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
