Family Quote by Thornton Wilder Download Open image ““The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder.”” — Thornton Wilder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Family Marriage Wife
Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Her husband was the most indulgent man who ever lived, or so said a neighbor who didn't know them very well.” — David Derbyshire Copy Share Image
“Marriage isn’t all about chores and children. It’s about the sharing of your life with someone else.” — Ruth Ann Nordin Copy Share Image
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“You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget.” — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
“I wanted a divorce, so I bought myself a house, to give me the incentive to stay married.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?” — Hilary Mantel 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… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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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
It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away. — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
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