Lois Wyse Quotes

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

Marriage and films should be done for the right reasons.

The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is that marriage is a maze into which we wander - a maze that is best got through with a great companion.

Children should have a balanced start in life: a mother and a father. I think that's the only reason to get married.

Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.

We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

The script comes first. If that isn't good enough, you know it's gonna be a long ride.

I'm going to get married again because I'm more mature now, and I need some kitchen stuff.

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.

Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new identity (a new name). The boredom of spinsters and of women who can no longer find joy and fulfillment in marriage stems from an awareness of a barren, spoiled life. By embracing a holy cause and dedicating their energies and substance to its advancement, they find a new life full of purpose and meaning.

A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?

So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.

A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.

The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.

Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.

I got married, I really waited a long time - three days after I graduated.

The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.

No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever.

[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish.

The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.

As long as I remember that the glory is His and not my own. When I confuse that, I get in trouble. We think that we glorify ourselves, and the object is to glorify God first, and in doing that you become glorified, you get glorified.