Quotes About Sacrifice

unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.

Marriage is the process by which a woman deprives herself of an escort.

Marriage, my dear, is not suicide.

Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.

Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.

Love is love, but marriage is an investment.

Marriage is the only game where the trapped animal has to buy the license.

Courtship is an activity whereby one losses oneself … whilst trying to win someone's love.

If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.

A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them.

If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.

Running down on a way of life our fighting men have fought and died to keep. If you don't love it, leave it.

No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return- he shall also suffer pain because of it, except for love of Allah.

Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.

If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more.

The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for.

Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?

We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honour but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

A man is never too weak or too wounded to fight. If his cause is greater than his own life.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.