The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“One child out of wedlock is an error. Two suggests carelessness. Three—and six—is simply wrong. Wrong.” — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers. — Don Lemon Copy Share Image
To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Hollywood has glorified adult premarital sex, and that is unhelpful if your goal is to reduce teen pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births. — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
If you will learn the seriousness of life, and its beauty also, live for your husband; make him happy. — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Look at all of the out-of-wedlock births that are going on, particularly in our inner cities. I have been speaking at a… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but… — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My love has placed her little hand With noble faith in mine, And vowed that wedlock's sacred band Our nature shall entwine.… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Were marriage no more than a convenient screen for sexuality, some less cumbersome and costly protection must have been found by this… — Virgilia Peterson Copy Share Image
In our society, it's an unwritten law that you can't have a child out of wedlock. I am not in agreement with… — Sara Khan Copy Share Image
“It takes years to marry completely two hearts, even of the most loving and well-assorted. A happy wedlock is a long falling… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the wife's hands, how is it then to… — Charlotte Mary Yonge Copy Share Image
I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The zooming wealth of the top 1 percent is a problem, but it's not nearly as big a problem as the tens… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“I think that I shall never know Why I am thus, and I am so. Around me, other girls inspire In men… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Of all the names Polygamy went by (so as not to exasperate the Gentile population and even some of the wives of… — Ardyth Kennelly Copy Share Image
But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Contraception leads to more babies being born out of wedlock, like fire extinguishers lead to more fires. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together! — Giovanni Ruffini Copy Share Image
I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love. — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
