Famous Quotes

"There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy."

Charles Eastman on Marriage

More quotes about Marriage

• "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 Charles Eastman

• "That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity."

• "The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe."

• "Friendship is held to be the severest test of character."

• "There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature."

• "More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material."