There are but two objects in marriage, love or money. If you marry for love, you will certainly have some very happy days, and probably many very uneasy ones, if for money, you will have no happy days and probably no uneasy ones... Letters on education, and characters - Page 397by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1847Full view - About this book
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1891 - 302 pages
...doubtless, a separation. /& iv. 200. Lord Chesterfield's Worldly Wisdom. Lord Chesterfield's Worldly Wisdom. There are but two objects in marriage, love or money....decently and amicably with, otherwise it is a robbery. Letters to his Godson, p. 390. In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice : because... | |
| Logan Pearsall Smith - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1928 - 280 pages
...rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake. Ibid., 1328. THERE are but two objefts in marriage, love or money. If you marry for love,...will have no happy days and probably no uneasy ones. Chesterfield, 654. IT is possible, though not very probable, that there may be joy in marriage. Ibid.,... | |
| Groucho Marx - Performing Arts - 2008 - 226 pages
...has never stooped to turning out filtered cigarettes. He said, and I quote, "There are two objects hi marriage: love or money. If you marry for love you will certainly have some very happy days; if for money, you will have no happy days and probably no uneasy ones." In my time I've read clearer... | |
| Amedeo Quondam - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 382 pages
...ammonizioni e consigli: il compendio di tutta una vita di padre-precettore, naturale, prima, e adottivo, poi: Do not be in haste to marry, but look about you first,...certainly have some very happy days, and probably many uneasy ones, if for money, you will have no happy days and probably no uneasy ones; in this latter... | |
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