Molly Elliot Seawell famous quotes

As for myself, there are two things I dread, - death and marriage. I must die, but I need not marry. I have sworn I will never be taken alive.
-- Molly Elliot Seawell

#Marriage #Taken #Two

Until he is forty, a man is too young to marry; and after he is forty, he is too old.
-- Molly Elliot Seawell

#Marriage #Men #Young

Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is necessarily a loafer.
-- Molly Elliot Seawell

#Art #Believe #Men

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.

People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.

The spiritual master and Krishna are two parallel lines. The train, on two tracks, moves forward. The spiritual Master and Krishna are like these two tracks. They must be served simultaneously. Krishna helps one to find bona fide Spiritual Master and bona fide Spiritual Master helps one to understand Krishna. If one does not get bona fide Spiritual Master, then how he can ever understand Krishna ? You cannot serve Krishna without Spiritual Master, or serve just Spiritual Master without serving Krishna. They must be served simultaneously.

Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.

Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.

There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.