A Quote by Helen Keller

He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.

Helen Keller

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Age Becomes Soon Spirit

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Helen Keller
American - Author
June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968

Whoever marries the spirit of the times must soon become a widower.

Peter Kreeft

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

William Inge

The reclusive man who marries the gregarious woman, the timid woman who marries the courageous man, the idealist who marries the realist we can all see these unions: the marriages in which tenderness meets loyalty, where generosity sweetens moroseness, where a sense of beauty eases some aridity of the spirit, are not so easy for outsiders to recognize; the parties themselves may not be fully aware of such elements in a good match.

Robertson Davies

The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.

William Ralph Inge

What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.

Ellen Glasgow

As soon as baseball becomes a job, as soon as I stop caring, as soon as the smile goes away, I'll hang up my spikes and do something else.

David Wright

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong. That's what I find with acting. As soon as it becomes padded, it becomes pat.

Liev Schreiber

A man who marries at my age isn't taking a wife, he's indenturing a nurse.

Robert A. Heinlein

With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon as it lays hold of the feelings, it becomes spirit.

Robert Musil

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

Nancy Mitford

He that marries late, marries ill.

George Herbert

He that marries is like the dogs who was married to the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which he marries; mayhap treasures and pearls, mayhap monsters and tempests, await him.

Heinrich Heine

The Jew almost never marries a Christian woman; it is the Christian who marries a Jewess.

Adolf Hitler

Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

Oscar Wilde

I think the spirit survives when we die, and nothing is wasted in nature and just as our material body disintegrates and becomes something else in the soil. The spirit becomes something else, reunites with a spiritual force that is out there in the universe. Not as individuals but as part of this spirituality.