Matrimony Quotes · Page 3

The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time.

— Alan Patrick Herbert

“Love is not in the ring. Love is in the heart.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.”

— Alain de Botton

Matrimony was probably the first union to defy management.

— Red Ruffing

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.

— Evan Esar

I've slept with enough married men to know that matrimony is not for me.

— Anonymous

A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry.

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

— Honore de Balzac

I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.

— George Carey

For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl. [Ger., Denn ein wackerer Mann verdient ein begutertes Madchen.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar…

— John Keats

“Either love or don't, there's no second guessing - either marry or don't, there's no contract matrimony.”

— Abhijit Naskar

When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way,…

— Yasmin Mogahed

An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.

— John F. Kennedy

For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May.

— Ovid

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach…

— Jane Austen

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

— Bruce Barton

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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

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

— Andrew Schneider

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

“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'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

The first diabolical character who intruded himself on my peaceful youth (as I called to mind that day at Dullborough), was a…

— Charles Dickens

“[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I…

— Elizabeth I

“Her partner now drew near, and said, "That gentleman would have put me out of patience, had he stayed with you half…

— Jane Austen

“It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless…

— Coco Chanel

There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful…

— Wallace Stegner

“Still it is true that many same-sex couples want nothing more than to join society as fully integrated socially responsible family-centered taxpaying…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“The long matrimonial haul was accomplished in cycles. One cycle of bad breath, one cycle of renewed desire, a third cycle of…

— Joshua Ferris

She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.

— Ovid

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

— John Milton

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.

— George Farquhar

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

— Myrtle Fillmore

Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.

— Charles Kingsley

The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.

— Louisa May Alcott

One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

— Rita Mae Brown