A Quote by Patrick O'Brian

Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.

Patrick O'Brian

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Patrick O'Brian
English - Novelist
December 12, 1914 - January 2, 2000

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

Erica Jong

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.

Will Rogers

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail.

Kevin Bacon

The fact that I ended up married to a decent man is still a source of amazement to me, thanks to 'The Women's Room.'

Catherine Jinks

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Jane Hirshfield

Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed.

Sidney Jourard

In Hollywood, there is no bigger commitment you can make than to a TV series. Even marriages pale in comparison. Marriages don't require signing iron-clad multiyear contracts. At least, most first marriages don't.

Carlton Cuse

I don't engage in brainwashing, I don't dictate forms of lifestyle, I don't perform mass marriages or even singular marriages. I don't tell people what to believe.

Frederick Lenz

In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Some people promote the idea that there can be two marriages, co-existing side by side, one heterosexual and one homosexual, without any adverse consequences. The hard reality is that, as an institution, marriage like all other institutions can only have one definition without changing the very character of the institution. Hence there can be no coexistence of two marriages.

Lance B. Wickman

I think another [myth] is that some marriages are just hopeless. This is a common thing I hear from people, "Well, I just think there are some marriages that are hopeless, Dr. Chapman, don't you agree with that?" I say I understand the feeling, but the fact is that there are no marriages that are hopeless.

Gary Chapman

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Anthony Storr

It was a constant source of amazement to Alexia that the only thing she had ever done in her entire life that pleased her mama was marry a werewolf.

Gail Carriger

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.

Edward Gibbon

I always admire the French and the Italians who are very devoted to their marriages. They take them extremely seriously, but it is understood that there might be other visitors at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. You just never boast about. They never say anything, but that's what keeps marriages together.

Hugh Grant

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