Famous Quotes
"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."
More quotes about Marriage
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"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
Mignon McLaughlin on Marriage -
"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
Socrates on Marriage -
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
Friedrich Nietzsche on Marriage -
"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
Oscar Wilde on Marriage -
"Don't marry the person you think you can live with marry only the individual you think you can't live without."
James C. Dobson on Marriage
More quotes by Lafcadio Hearn
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"But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose."
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"For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete."
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"At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version and this is the great literary monument of the English language."
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"But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved."
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"A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind."