Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly

Quote by Voltaire

Topics: Adventure Quotes, Marriage Quotes

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live...

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live...

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from...

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from...

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd

A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion

A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord,...

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord,...

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they...

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they...

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those...

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those...

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers...

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers...

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the...

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the...

The best is the enemy of the good.

The best is the enemy of the good.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does...

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does...

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are...

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are...

Good thoughts his only friends, His wealth a well-spent age, The earth his sober inn...

Good thoughts his only friends, His wealth a well-spent age, The earth his sober inn...

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an...

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an...

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and...

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and...