You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Marriage or matrimony is the union of male and female, involving shared life together.” — Justinian Copy Share Image
Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?. — Louis Gustave Vapereau Copy Share Image
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Only the most passionate, forthright kind of love would ever induce her to enter the confining state of matrimony.” — Melanie Dickerson Copy Share Image
“Matrimony is not only a Sacrament, but it is also a con tract requiring the mutual consent of both parties. There can… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection. — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
And, to all married men, be this a caution, Which they should duly tender as their life, Neither to doat too much,… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the consciousness of belonging together, in the sense of constancy, resides the sanctity, the beauty of matrimony, which helps us to… — Fanny Lewald Copy Share Image
What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century,… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually,… — Erma Bombeck 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
I am humbly following in your footsteps and having a row with the Government over the iniquity of the Marriage Tax in… — Marie Stopes Copy Share Image
No man of common sense will value a woman the less, for not giving herself up at the first attack, or for… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“And how closely related to you is Cousin Beatrice?” Reynaud gave him a look. “Not that close. “Glad to hear it.” Vale… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
“[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did,… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:) "[W]hile we perceive ... the zeal and love of your mind towards… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
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