The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life

Quote by Richard Steele Sr

Topics: Imagination Quotes, Life Quotes, Marriage Quotes

Marriage is too important to be treated like a love affair

Marriage is too important to be treated like a love affair

They that live in a trading street are not disturbed at the passage of carts

They that live in a trading street are not disturbed at the passage of carts

The conquest of passion gives ten times more happiness than we can reap from the...

The conquest of passion gives ten times more happiness than we can reap from the...

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit...

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit...

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes...

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes...

It is easy to become a monk in one's old age.

It is easy to become a monk in one's old age.

I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an...

I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an...

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth,...

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth,...

At your age The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble.

At your age The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood, age retains its tastes by...

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood, age retains its tastes by...

Old age is an incurable disease.

Old age is an incurable disease.

I really like to have sweet people around me. I can't stand bad asses. There's...

I really like to have sweet people around me. I can't stand bad asses. There's...

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and...

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and...

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

What I regret about the follies of youth is not having committed them but not...

What I regret about the follies of youth is not having committed them but not...