"What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married."
― Alain de Botton
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Marriage
― Alain de Botton
More From Alain de Botton
- "Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them."
- "The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it’s a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil."
- "We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us."
More In Marriage
- "The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction."― Tim Holden
- "Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings… and lawyers."― Richard Pryor
- "No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association."― Johnny Weissmuller