#ria

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#amusement #generally #marriage #sad #solemn

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#divorce #easier #fifty #hard #less

Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man’s inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,—in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home? ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#possessions #technology #travel #beauty

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#about #anything #devotion #knows #like

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#bribe #housekeeper #make #she #think

In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#ever #important #industrial #more #science

I'm a serial monogamist. ↗

— Kate Bosworth

#serial

Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. ↗

— Edmond About

#duel #life #like #marriage #midst

Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#enjoy #espionage #go #going #i

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward. ↗

— Josef Albers

#backward #create #historians #leave #looking