Matrimony Quotes

120 quotes by 101 authors

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen
Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. — Ambrose Bierce
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid… — Lord Chesterfield
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe; in golf it… — Arnold Haultain
If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce… — P.J. O'Rourke
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. — Anthony Trollope
Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?. — Louis Gustave Vapereau
It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. — Oliver Goldsmith
The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time. — A. P. Herbert
Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence. — Eddie Cantor
I think marriage is dangerous. The idea of two people trying to possess each other is wrong. I don't think the flare of love lasts.… — Carole Lombard
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, if… — Boethius
The most important things that any member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ever does in this world are: 1. To marry… — Bruce R. McConkie
O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living. — Fanny Fern
The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty… — William Lloyd Garrison
In the consciousness of belonging together, in the sense of constancy, resides the sanctity, the beauty of matrimony, which helps us to endure pain more… — Fanny Lewald
Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock. — Evan Esar

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