Matrimony Quotes

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.

She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.

Matrimony was probably the first union to defy management.

Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.

There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.

Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.

You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.

Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.

Matrimony is the price of love -- divorce, the rebate.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?

No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.

I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony.

The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.

matrimony is a very dangerous disorder; I had rather drink.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is, that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.

Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.

[Exchange] the galling burden of bachelorship for the easy yoke of matrimony.

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.

I asked of Echo 't other day (Whose words are few and often funny), What to a novice she could say Of courtship, love, and matrimony. Quoth Echo, plainly, "Matter-o'-money.

The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than my time, forms a barrier against matrimony which I rejoice in.

the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.

Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?.

the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!

The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one who, running out of the rain, falls into the river.

An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...

For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled.

I am not only not going to be married, at present, but have very little intention of ever marrying at all.

Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work.

A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life.

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

Marriage is one sweet way in which one can taste heaven on earth. Similarly, I can also become hell on earth.

That's the mistake people make - always searching for the perfect match, when they would be just as happy if they settled for somebody reasonably good.

Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding-ring!

Only the most passionate love could ever induce me to marry.

May your union be filled with loveAnnealed by passion Built on a strong foundation And tempered by time

[Marriage] promote[s] the moral order of the world - Edith Wharton "The Eyes

You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person.

Marriage is not kick-boxing, it's salsa dancing.

An ‘usband should be plain enough to sit at his settle, and simple-minded enough to accept the stew on his plate, rather than looking round ev’ry corner for a more succulent chop, ’ declares Elsie.

Throwing caution to the wind, leaping merrily into the unknown, onwards they plunge, into the voyage of matrimony.

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

Ode to the Chamber...linger here amidst the chamberin which we embrace our lovetalk to me of sonnetsand call me turtledove...