Ends Quote by Isadora Duncan

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

— Charlotte Bronte

“Either love or don't, there's no second guessing - either marry or don't, there's no contract matrimony.”

— Abhijit Naskar

As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they call it…

— Daniel Defoe

Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.

— Samuel Lover

For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl. [Ger., Denn ein wackerer Mann verdient ein begutertes Madchen.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Metellus Numidicus, the censor, acknowledged to the Roman people, in a public oration, that had kind nature allowed us to exist without the help…

— Edward Gibbon

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Jennifer Ehle

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

— Philip Massinger

Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship,…

— Samuel Richardson

As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson