Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. — Madeleine de Scudery 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
matrimony is a very dangerous disorder; I had rather drink. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony. — Ursula Parrott Copy Share Image
To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven. — Friedrich Schiller 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
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 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
The faults of advertising are only those common to all human institutions. If advertising speaks to a thousand in order to influence… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
The best time for marriage will be towards thirty, for as the younger times are unfit, either to choose or to govern… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
The sum of all that makes a just man happy Consists in the well choosing of his wife: And there, well to… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain that his partner had left… — Charles Dickens 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
“What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“And such is your definition of matrimony and dancing. Taken in that light, certainly their resemblance is not striking; but I think… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image