Quotes About Commitment

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

There is no royal road to learning no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

It had at this time become my custom… to write with my watch before me, and to require from myself 250 words every quarter of an hour. I have found that the 250 words have been forthcoming as regularly as my watch went.

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man.

Do not be like servants who serve their masters expecting to receive a reward be rather like servants who serve their master unconditionally, with no thought of reward.

Le seul obstacle entre nous, disait-elle, c'est la boisson. - Je boirai l'obstacle, répondais-je

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."

'Men have forgotten this truth ' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.

You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed.

Unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.

love my wife," Francis said. "I love her deeply. I wouldn't be the man I am without her." He shifted in his chair. "That said, were she to leave me, as she has the right to, not to mention the reason, I could bear the absence of her affections.

don't think I wanted so much to be married as I was trying to wipe out the anxiety I was feeling about our inevitable drifting apart.

If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything through my infidelity.