Bribe Quote by Thornton Wilder Download Open image “Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.” — Thornton Wilder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bribe Family Funny Marriage Thinking
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder.” — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is the reductio ad absurdum of the employee who accepts a lower wage in return for permanence of his employment. But the lowest paid employees can be and are laid off, and so are wives. They have no savings,… — Germaine Greer Copy Share
“The Buddha referred to married people as “householders.” He even gave clear instructions as to how one should be a good householder: Be nice… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The householder must always please his wife with money, clothes, love and faith and never do anything to disturb her. That man who has… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“A (house)wife now performs the tasks once distributed between servants of different rank or undertaken by the maid of all work. Her ‘core’ jobs… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
“as long as Mary can’t cook and has those awful manners—well, we’re safe, nobody else would have her.” I perceived that my wife’s methods… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“He respected the slight nervous shadow that crossed her face when he came too near her. But there arose out of this denial itself… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Simon Stimson: "...That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Love as education is one of the great powers of the world, but it hangs in a delicate suspension; it achieves its harmony as… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.” — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is clever enough not to expose the poverty of his general ideas; he never permits the conversation to move toward philosophical principles. Men of his type so dread all deliberation that they glory in the practice of the instantaneous decision. They think… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share
Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think if people give you their time and they haven't got any money then they deserve to get something. Not so that you… — Nick Broomfield Copy Share Image
The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they will become double agents and available for our service. It is through the information brought by the double agent that we are able to acquire and employ local and inward spies. It is owing to his… — Sun Tzu Copy Share
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal. Reparations would mean the end of scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage. Reparations would mean… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share
There's a property in Panama where Trump has collected somewhere around $30 million just from selling his name to this property - it's somewhere between $30 million and $50 million. It would be so easy for a developer to slap on an extra $6 million to a Trump licensing deal and have that be a backdoor bribe. Who are we… — Naomi Klein Copy Share
There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market… — Wang Jianlin Copy Share Image
