Famous Quotes

"But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?"

Mary Astell on Marriage

More quotes about Marriage

• "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

  Mignon McLaughlin on Marriage

• "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."

  Socrates on Marriage

• "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Marriage

• "How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

  Oscar Wilde on Marriage

• "Don't marry the person you think you can live with marry only the individual you think you can't live without."

  James C. Dobson on Marriage

More quotes by Mary Astell

• "Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best."

• "The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it."

• "But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?"

• "God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him."

• "Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up."