Matrimony Quotes · Page 4

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

— Melanie Dickerson

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

— Edward Young

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

— Pope Francis

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

— Homer

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

— Wilkie Collins

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

— Jane Austen

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.

— William Cowper

To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to…

— George Bernard Shaw

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part…

— John Milton

That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not…

— William Shakespeare

Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is…

— Mikhail Lermontov

Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a…

— Theodore Parker

“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

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

I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going…

— Andrew Schneider

The most important things that any member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ever does in this world are:…

— Bruce R. McConkie

In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

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

— Bruce Barton

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

— Jane Austen

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

— Frances Rodman

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Helen Rowland

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

An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.

— Ursula Parrott

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

— Frank Leslie

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

— James Madison

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

Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.

— Moliere

No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.

— Heinrich Heine

It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

— Alexander Pope