Matrimony Quotes · Page 4

“Marriage or matrimony is the union of male and female, involving shared life together.”

— Justinian

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Helen Rowland

Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part.

— Edward Young

Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.

— Homer

Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

— Pope Francis

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

— Melanie Dickerson

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

— Jane Austen

Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged…

— Robert Breault

“My first [wife] was an angel; My second a silly woman; My third a Roman Senator; My fourth a pretty little thing;…

— Nat C. Goodwin

When I hear that a friend has fallen into matrimony, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

— Criss Jami

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

— Jane Austen

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

— St. Jerome

Jealousy destroys the matrimonies; jealousy destroys the friendships, jealousy provokes religious wars, fratricidal hates, murderers and all kind of suffering.

— Samael Aun Weor

Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is, that the very expensiveness of…

— Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe;…

— Arnold Haultain

Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love,…

— Samuel Richardson

It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up with when they look at them. There's…

— Billy Connolly

“My husband would do anything for me ...' It's degrading. No human being ought to have such power over another." "It's a…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The faults of advertising are only those common to all human institutions. If advertising speaks to a thousand in order to influence…

— Bruce Barton

We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Wilkie Collins

Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had.

— Frances Rodman

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

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Jane Austen

“Either marry or don't, there's no contract matrimony.”

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— Helen Rowland

A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in.

— William Shakespeare

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

— James Madison

Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony.

— Frank Leslie

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

“In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Aaron Hill

To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Amit Kalantri