Quote by Samuel Butler

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage -- but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marri

Summary

This quote suggests that a man's friendships can be potentially affected and damaged by both his own marriage and the marriages of his friends. It implies that once a man gets married, his existing friendships may become less important or diminished in some way. Furthermore, if his friends also get married, their commitments to their spouses may influence and undermine the intimacy and bond that previously existed in the friendship. Overall, the quote highlights the potential impact of marriage on friendships and how they may be invalidated or weakened as a result.

Topics

Friends

By Samuel Butler

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

It must be something voluntary, something self induced - lik

It must be something voluntary, something self induced - like getting drunk, or talking yourself into believing some piece of foolishness because it happens to be in the Scriptures. And then look at their idea of what's normal. Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to society. It's unimaginable! No question about what you do with your orgasms. No question about the quality of your feelings and thoughts and perceptions. And then what about the society you're supposed to be adjusted to? Is it a mad society or a sane one? And even if it's pretty sane, is it right that anybody should be completely adjusted to it?

Freedom Society Ideas Choice Orgasm

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surg

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

Birthday

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Character

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in pract

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Contradiction

When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I belie

When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.

Freedom

I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and a

I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.

Women

The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums

The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.

Carl Gustav Jung

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

George Washington

Government

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Qui

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

God

Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style

Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.

Charles Kennedy

Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would u

Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear.

Hope

Never forget the importance of history. To know nothing of w

Never forget the importance of history. To know nothing of what happened before you took your place on earth, is to remain a child for ever and ever.

History