Age Quote by William Shakespeare

Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.

— Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all…

— Honore de Balzac

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

— Marquis de Sade

Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.

— Anonymous

Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

— Alexander Pope

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

— Tertullian

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

— St. Jerome

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love…

— Honore de Balzac

Wedlock is a padlock.

— John Ray

“With chaste affections man and wife In solemn wedlock it entwines. Love’s laws most trusty comrades bind. How happy is the human race, 30…

— Boethius

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes…

— Sydney Smith

Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.

— Charles Caleb Colton