Famous Quotes

"Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit."

Seamus Heaney 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 Seamus Heaney

• "At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure."

• "Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained."

• "Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit."

• "In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself."

• "Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it."