O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor. — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
“In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony. — Frank Leslie Copy Share Image
[Exchange] the galling burden of bachelorship for the easy yoke of matrimony. — James Madison Copy Share Image
When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I've never created a riot before. I did cause a brawl at the last formal. A large number of young women there… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe;… — Arnold Haultain 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
It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you… — Charlotte Brontë 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
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
“[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
“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
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
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives. — Moliere Copy Share Image
I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. — Jennifer Ehle Copy Share Image
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth] — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
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![“[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this…” quote by Héloïse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43c/heloise-27050_affection_i-t-is-not-by-being-richer-or-more-power_726871.jpg)
![“[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou be not ashamed, concubine ... And thou thyself wert not wholly unmindful of that ... [as in the narrative of thy misfortunes ] thou hast not disdained to set forth sundry reasons by which I…” quote by Héloïse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/651/heloise-27050_bonds_i-f-the-name-of-wife-appears-more-sacred_2298825.jpg)
![“I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth]” quote by Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07f/jane-austen-39_deepest-love_i-am-determined-that-nothing-but-the-dee_2108648.jpg)
