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Matrimony Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient…
- I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the lord chancellor, upon a due…
More Matrimony Quotes
- 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… — 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;… — 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… — 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