Matrimony Quotes · Page 4

Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had.

— Frances Rodman

Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.

— Helen Rowland

“Either marry or don't, there's no contract matrimony.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Only the most passionate love could ever induce me to marry.”

— Melanie Dickerson

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

— Jane Austen

Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

— Pope Francis

Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.

— Homer

Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part.

— Edward Young

Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a…

— Theodore Parker

Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing…

— Jeremy Taylor

Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is…

— Mikhail Lermontov

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

— Michel de Montaigne

Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a…

— St. Jerome

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

— Jane Austen

“Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want…

— Criss Jami

Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is, that the very expensiveness of…

— Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living…

— Ambrose Bierce

“After one divorce and other on the way I am seriously considering a ME-rriage now and .t's going to be epic! I…

— Ana Claudia Antunes

In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle… Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims…

— Anonymous

“I shall expect my husband to have no pleasures but what he shares with me; and if his greatest pleasure of all…

— Anne Brontë

True it is, as society is instituted, marriage becomes somewhat of a lottery, for all its votaries are either the victims of…

— Arthur Frederick Saunders

If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine;…

— William Shakespeare

As a great part of the uneasiness of matrimony arises from mere trifles,, it would be wise in every young married man…

— Henry Fielding

Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.

— Wilkie Collins

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

— Anthony Trollope

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

— Alain de Botton

Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?.

— Louis Gustave Vapereau

In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.

— R. C. Sproul

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

— Ambrose Bierce

Matrimony is the price of love -- divorce, the rebate.

— Helen Rowland

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

— Heinrich Heine

“Marriage or matrimony is the union of male and female, involving shared life together.”

— Justinian

You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.

— Walter Savage Landor

Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.

— Elizabeth Bennett

For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.

— Johannes Brahms

Determine to pray more words over your marriage than you speak about your marriage.

— Lysa TerKeurst

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

— Isadora Duncan

For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.

— Henry Fielding

Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.

— William Shakespeare