Famous quotes containing the words proof and/or house:
“To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)
“In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father’s house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband’s is almost a cloister.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)