I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. — Jennifer Ehle Copy Share Image
“For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“A man who lives with his wife is safer and more venerable than a man who lives with a tramp.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
My weakness for beautiful women is my most expensive vice, I still believe in matrimony, but I can't afford another try. — George Strait Copy Share Image
Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony? — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Perfect Matrimony is the union of two beings; one who loves more, and the other who loves better. The best religion… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no… — Salvador Minuchin Copy Share Image
Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Metellus Numidicus, the censor, acknowledged to the Roman people, in a public oration, that had kind nature allowed us to exist without… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
He quietly groaned. Again and again, he’d witnessed this phenomenon with his friends. They got married. They were happy in that sated,… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
I'll suffer no daughter of mine to play the fool with her heart, indeed! She shall marry for the purpose for which… — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. — Madeleine de Scudery Copy Share Image
Spouses often point out each other's deficiencies. Instead, we should be each other's motivator. My husband touches my spirit, and I try… — Ken Blanchard Copy Share Image
A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and… — John Ford Copy Share Image
the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I asked of Echo 't other day (Whose words are few and often funny), What to a novice she could say Of… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
Marriage is a lot of things-an alliance, a sacrament, a comedy, or a mistake; but it is definitely not a partnership because… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is a walk in the fog. Most people don't know that. They're fooled by the sunlight into thinking they can see… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony. — George Carey Copy Share Image
Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Determine to pray more words over your marriage than you speak about your marriage. — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
