It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry them at all would be on trial. U...ntil you had definitely experienced all the human situations with them, you would have no means of knowing how, in any given situation, they would behave. They might conform about evening-dress, and throw plates between courses; they might be charming to your friends, and ask the waiter to sit down and finish dinner with you. Or they might in all things, little and big, be irreproachable. The point is that you would never know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or ...unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audac...ious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had reconciled myself to a life without marriage or children for the sake of my career. And then my brothers got married. I real...ized I didn't even have a home, that in the future I couldn't do politics when I had to ask permission from their wives as to whether I could use the dining room or the telephone. I couldn't rent a home because a woman living on her own can be suspected of all kinds of scandalous associations. So keeping in mind that many people in Pakistan looked to me, I decided to make a personal sacrifice in what I thought would be, more or less, a loveless marriage, a marriage of convenience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love and marriage, love and marriage Go together like a horse and carriage... Dad was told by mother You can't have one without the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We lov'd, and we lov'd, as long as we could, Till our love was lov'd out in us both;... But our marriage is dead, when the pleasure is fled: 'Twas pleasure first made it an oath.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And from a cliff top is proclaimed The gathering of the souls for birth,... The trial by existence named, The obscuration upon earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of a...ll conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back...; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »