Matrimony Quotes

Matrimony Quote of the day

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

[Matrimony] is the grave of love.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

The Perfect Matrimony is the union of two beings; one who loves more, and the other who loves better. The best religion available to the human race is Love.

Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony?

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

A young man married is a man that's marred.

My weakness for beautiful women is my most expensive vice, I still believe in matrimony, but I can't afford another try.

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.

For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year.

Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing.

Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.

Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.

Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.

I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.

Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.

When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.

Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from every divine and human office and calling.

It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.

Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.