Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance. — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?. — Louis Gustave Vapereau Copy Share Image
If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When I hear that a personal friend has fallen into matrimonial courses, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“Marriage is one sweet way in which one can taste heaven on earth. Similarly, I can also become hell on earth.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Every married person he knew seemed desperate to chivvy others into matrimony, no matter how poor an advertisement they themselves were for… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
He that marries is like the dogs who was married to the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“After one divorce and other on the way I am seriously considering a ME-rriage now and .t's going to be epic! I… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
I've never created a riot before. I did cause a brawl at the last formal. A large number of young women there… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The sum of all that makes a just man happy Consists in the well choosing of his wife: And there, well to… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
The best time for marriage will be towards thirty, for as the younger times are unfit, either to choose or to govern… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
“Still it is true that many same-sex couples want nothing more than to join society as fully integrated socially responsible family-centered taxpaying… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
The first diabolical character who intruded himself on my peaceful youth (as I called to mind that day at Dullborough), was a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:) "[W]hile we perceive ... the zeal and love of your mind towards… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Her partner now drew near, and said, "That gentleman would have put me out of patience, had he stayed with you half… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
“Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Determine to pray more words over your marriage than you speak about your marriage. — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage. — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid. — Elizabeth Bennett Copy Share Image
Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
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