I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
“The lads I've met in cupid's deadlock Were - shall we say? - born out of wedlock” — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love. — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women - or teenage girls -… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
It began to really eat away with me that in the '60s the federal government, desiring to help poor moms who were… — Louie Gohmert Copy Share Image
“With chaste affections man and wife In solemn wedlock it entwines. Love’s laws most trusty comrades bind. How happy is the human… — Boethius Copy Share Image
“The Fawleys were not made for wedlock: it never seemed to sit well upon us. There's sommat in our blood that won't… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I think that I shall never know Why I am thus, and I am so. Around me, other girls inspire In men… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the wife's hands, how is it then to… — Charlotte Mary Yonge Copy Share Image
“It takes years to marry completely two hearts, even of the most loving and well-assorted. A happy wedlock is a long falling… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The zooming wealth of the top 1 percent is a problem, but it's not nearly as big a problem as the tens… — David Brooks 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
I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together! — Giovanni Ruffini Copy Share Image
The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If you will learn the seriousness of life, and its beauty also, live for your husband; make him happy. — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Contraception leads to more babies being born out of wedlock, like fire extinguishers lead to more fires. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Do we honestly believe that hopeless kids growing up under the harsh new rules will turn out to be chaste, studious, responsible… — Richard Stolley 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 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)
