"The reason for much matrimony is patrimony." — Ogden Nash

More Matrimony Quotes

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• 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… — 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… — 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… — 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

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