A Quote by Susan B. Anthony

To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

Susan B. Anthony

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Susan B. Anthony
American - Activist
February 15, 1820 - March 13, 1906

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'

Helen Rowland

The idea that your spouse or your parents don't know where you are at all times may be part of the past. Is that good or bad? Will that make for better marriages or worse marriages? I don't know.

Howard Rheingold

No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.

Ann Voskamp

Marriages had different meanings back then than they do now, they were used to cement agreements between families, business deals and things like that. The idea of marriages being arranged for love is some sort of modern idea, really.

Jared Harris

No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one has to accept the need for positive government; one has to consider government action on a sizable scale as desirable rather than as a necessary evil.

Peter Drucker

The older generations are too wedded to political parties, too wedded to romantic memories of what education was like when they were kids, and too wedded to the status quo group that clings to power.

Betsy DeVos

The biggest and loudest weddings don't always produce the happiest marriages.

Gyles Brandreth

If Jesus was a baby, there was a point, on that Holiest of nights, in that Holiest of mangers, where he made a big, Holy load.

Dana Gould

The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.

John Bayley

Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.

Sydney J. Harris

The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.

Bernard DeVoto

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

Hector Hugh Munro

The happiest and holiest children in the world are the children whose fathers succeed in winning both their tender affection and their reverential and loving fear. And they are the children who will come to understand most easily the mystery of the fatherhood of God.