Wedlock Quotes

Wedlock Quote of the day

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

Wedlock is a padlock.

Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."

Contraception leads to more babies being born out of wedlock, like fire extinguishers lead to more fires.

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?

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

If you will learn the seriousness of life, and its beauty also, live for your husband; make him happy.

I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.

So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.

I don't believe in bringing children into the world out of wedlock.

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.

For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace.

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination.

Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.

Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

Wedlock joins nothing, if it joins not hearts.

For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty.

If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.

Wedlock's like wine - not properly judged of till the second glass.

The wedlocks of minds will be greater than that of bodies.

Wedlock is a narrow business.

Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

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

I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up.

I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

Men marry. Women wed.

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