Affection Quote by William Lloyd Garrison

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

— Justinian

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

“Matrimony is not only a Sacrament, but it is also a con tract requiring the mutual consent of both parties. There can be no…

— Joseph Pohle

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

The noblest relationship is marriage, that is, love. Its nobility resides in its altruism, the desire to serve another beyond all the pleasures of…

— John Fowles

Whoever seeks honor [by marrying a woman] will be tested with lowliness, and whoever seeks wealth [by marrying a woman] will be tested with…

— Sufyan ibn `Uyaynah

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.

— Nancy Pearcey

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as…

— Erik Erikson

Woman too commonly commits the sin of self-sacrifice whereby she consents to be sequestered in the home, without intellectual stimulus, so that the tranquil…

— Rebecca West

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

— Chanakya

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

— Bruce Barton

All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite to that…

— John Stuart Mill