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Quotes About Perspective

Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.
~ George Jean Nathan
My whole approach to marriage is simple: my wife will do something that drives me insane, I won't say anything, and then, later, I'll die of cancer.
~ Dana Gould
Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.
~ Franz Kafka
Marriage is the most expensive ticket to nowhere
~ Aryn Kyle
I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.
~ Margaret Mead
When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed.
~ Milan Kundera, Encounter
Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.
~ Helen Reddy
[On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out.
~ Myrtle Reed
Marriage is the cold potato of love.
~ Myrtle Reed
Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.
~ Mary Wesley
The wonder is not that some married people are less happy than they hoped to be, but that any married people, out of the honeymoon, or even in it, are ever happy at all.
~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
I have no useful theories about love and marriage.
~ Michael Cunningham
But after a certain point in a marriage, you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, because when the years behind you were more than the years in front of you, things were different.
~ Elizabeth Strout
to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!
~ Fanny Burney
He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Marriage is rather a silly habit.
~ John Osborne
I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.
~ Arsenio Hall
Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.
~ Austin O'Malley
Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
"Tangled Up in Blue," shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a "tangled" version of [Bob] Dylan's marriage and dissolution.
~ Bob Dylan
when you speak of other people's marriages, you are, of course, saying something about your own.
~ Carol Grace
Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.
~ Christopher Marlowe
No matter how happily a woman may be married it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.
~ H. L. Mencken
Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.
~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam