Logo
Quote by Lafcadio Hearn
Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of mans life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it. – Lafcadio Hearn

Other quotes by Lafcadio Hearn

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

Category:
Marriage
Author
Lafcadio Hearn
Read Quote

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality. – Lafcadio Hearn

Category:
respect
Author
Lafcadio Hearn
Read Quote

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. – Lafcadio Hearn

Category:
Knowledge
Author
Lafcadio Hearn
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Marriage
category

If you leave your wife and you dont ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage. – H. G. Bissinger

Category:
Marriage

Ive had two terrific relationships, but both ended in marriage. – Jane Seymour

Category:
Marriage

My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasnt. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic – they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics. – Jared Harris

Category:
Marriage

Ive always been wary of marriage. – Cynthia Nixon

Category:
Marriage

Random Quotes

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three — all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. – Edward Everett Hale

Category:
Worry

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Category:
Knowledge

Where do you think Id be next week if I didnt know how to shout and holler and make the public take notice? Id be poor and Id probably be down in my home town, washing windows or running an elevator and saying – Muhammad Ali

Category:
Racism

I know Im going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future. – Mike Tyson

Category:
Future