"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."
― John Updike
Topic(s):
Marriage
More From John Updike
- "Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life."
- "That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds."
- "Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
More In Marriage
- "I have a very intense marriage."― James Ellroy
- "French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow."― Lafcadio Hearn
- "Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake."― Elbert Hubbard