And love Quote by Benjamin Franklin

I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine;…

— John Burnside

Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind,…

— Anonymous

The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and…

— H. L. Mencken

True happiness comes only through sharing in the trials and successes of other persons and of our community. Hence it is essential that any…

— Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young…

— Jane Austen

To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.

— Anonymous

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

— Justinian

The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth. Happiness does not begin at the altar; it begins during the period of youth…

— David O. McKay

“Philosophers, priests and poets have brooded over the nature of happiness for millennia, and many have concluded that social, ethical and spiritual factors have…

— Yuval Noah Harari

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind -…

— D. H. Lawrence

Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well-deceived

— Jonathan Swift