Matrimony Quotes

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

[Matrimony] is the grave of love.

— Giacomo Casanova

Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.

— Samuel Lover

There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.

— Ovid

“Matrimony is a serious thing.”

— Anne Brontë

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

— Helen Rowland

“Love is not in the ring. Love is in the heart.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

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

— Ovid

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Melanie Dickerson

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

“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

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

— Philip Massinger

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

“Matrimony is not only a Sacrament, but it is also a con tract requiring the mutual consent of both parties. There can…

— Joseph Pohle

Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to…

— Lord Byron

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

— Erma Bombeck

The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one…

— Martin Luther

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

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

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

— Jane Austen

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

— Andrew Schneider

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

For St. Paul only says that it is better to be married than to burn. Now I presume that if that apostle…

— Thomas Jefferson

“[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

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

“Are you ready to go home, Catherine?” he asked. “It’s warm inside the house. I kept a fire going for you.” I…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you…

— Charlotte Brontë

“It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain that his partner had left…

— Charles Dickens