“Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today -- that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past.” PeopleWritingHas BeensTodayPastHouseMemoriesMarriageStreetsCenturyFieldsDifficultyLipsChiefsAssociationEchoesEnglish Words Author:Virginia Woolf
“If a marriage is going to work well, it must be on a solid footing, namely money, and of that commodity it is the girl with the smallest dowry who, to my knowledge, consumes the most, to infuriate her husband. All the same, it is only fair that the marriage should pay for past pleasures, since it will scarcely procure any in the future.” IfsShouldWellsPastGirlPleasureMoneyPayMarriageHusbandFairsSmallestCommodityGoing To WorkDowry Author:Lord Chesterfield
“We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.” LovePastMarriageLove YouPositivityCaringThriveEmpowering WomenExtendingWomen Empowering WomenEmpowering Love Author:Marianne Williamson
“Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.” GivingWritingKindDoeImportantDonePastMarriageRolesHonestAcceptanceSingingPerformancesGive MeReleaseBeing HonestTherapyDemonMy Past Author:Michelle Shocked
“Then marriage may be said to be past in all quietnesse, when the wife is blind, and the husband deafe.” MaySaidPastMarriageWifeHusbandBlind Author:Thomas Heywood
“I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.” FactsPastMarriageCenturyMathematicsDivorceMathPhysicsMathematical Book:Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson with Commentary Source: Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson with Commentary
“When a man thinks about a woman he thinks about love, he never thinks about marriage. When a woman thinks about a man, she thinks about marriage. Love is secondary, security is first. She lives in a different kind of world - maybe in the future she may not, but in the past the only problem for the woman was how to be secure.” ThinkingMenWorldFirstsKindMayDifferentProblemPastLove IsMarriageSecuritySecureDifferent KindsMarriage Love Author:Rajneesh