Matrimony Quotes · Page 5

“In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.”

— Samuel Butler

“A man who lives with his wife is safer and more venerable than a man who lives with a tramp.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.

— Emily Murphy

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

— Helen Rowland

“For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Wilkie Collins

A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time…

— Samuel Johnson

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

I asked of Echo 't other day (Whose words are few and often funny), What to a novice she could say Of…

— John Godfrey Saxe

The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause…

— Benjamin Franklin

When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger…

— Helen Nielsen

My weakness for beautiful women is my most expensive vice, I still believe in matrimony, but I can't afford another try.

— George Strait

As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

— Charlotte Bronte

the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign…

— Margaret Deland

“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

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

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

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

Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe;…

— Arnold Haultain

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

The sum of all that makes a just man happy Consists in the well choosing of his wife: And there, well to…

— Philip Massinger

“[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other…

— Héloïse

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

— Homer

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

— Pope Francis

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

— Edward Young

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

— Jane Austen

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

— Melanie Dickerson

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

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

— Frances Rodman

I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth]

— Jane Austen

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and…

— John Ford

Spouses often point out each other's deficiencies. Instead, we should be each other's motivator. My husband touches my spirit, and I try…

— Ken Blanchard

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

— Jane Austen

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

Jealousy destroys the matrimonies; jealousy destroys the friendships, jealousy provokes religious wars, fratricidal hates, murderers and all kind of suffering.

— Samael Aun Weor