Matrimony Quotes

Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.

— John Lyly

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

— Karl Kraus

[Matrimony] is the grave of love.

— Giacomo Casanova

Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.

— Samuel Lover

If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.

— Ovid

“Matrimony is a serious thing.”

— Anne Brontë

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

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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

— George Carey

No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

— Honore de Balzac

A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry.

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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

— Ovid

Matrimony was probably the first union to defy management.

— Red Ruffing

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

— Evan Esar

I've slept with enough married men to know that matrimony is not for me.

— Anonymous

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl. [Ger., Denn ein wackerer Mann verdient ein begutertes Madchen.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And, to all married men, be this a caution, Which they should duly tender as their life, Neither to doat too much,…

— Philip Massinger

“Women are like bottles of liquor. They should be sampled, savored, then discarded. Matrimony is for men who can’t handle their liquor.”

— Gena Showalter

The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar…

— John Keats

“Only the most passionate, forthright kind of love would ever induce her to enter the confining state of matrimony.”

— Melanie Dickerson

He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.

— Robert Boyle

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

— Walter Scott

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or…

— Lord Chesterfield

In the consciousness of belonging together, in the sense of constancy, resides the sanctity, the beauty of matrimony, which helps us to…

— Fanny Lewald

I think marriage is dangerous. The idea of two people trying to possess each other is wrong. I don't think the flare…

— Carole Lombard

Marriages on earth--because they are the seminaries of the human race and of the angels of heaven also; because, likewise, they proceed…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for…

— Jane Austen

When it shall please God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife. For from…

— Philip Sidney

What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century,…

— Andrew Schneider

People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually,…

— Erma Bombeck

Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou…

— Héloïse

No man of common sense will value a woman the less, for not giving herself up at the first attack, or for…

— Daniel Defoe

“And how closely related to you is Cousin Beatrice?” Reynaud gave him a look. “Not that close. “Glad to hear it.” Vale…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did,…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they…

— Daniel Defoe

“To prove to [her friend, Swedish diplomat Count] Gyllenborg that she was not superficial, Catherine composed an essay about herself, "so that…

— Robert K. Massie

“And such is your definition of matrimony and dancing. Taken in that light, certainly their resemblance is not striking; but I think…

— Jane Austen

I never understood exactly why people get engaged--The only time I ever did the most disastrous things happened--but I feel that there's…

— John Dos Passos