Matrimony Quotations

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.

Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had.

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

It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year.

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

Being the wife of Diego is the most marvelous thing in the world...I let him play matrimony with other women. Diego is not anybody's husband and never will be, but he is a great comrad.

I share your concern and therefore invite the faithful to place the sacrament of matrimony at the center of their family life.

No woman has less temptation to seek matrimony from sordid motives of selfishness or convenience. The actress is an absolutely independent wage-earner, and better compensated than the great majority of women who make their own livelihoods. She need not marry for money, or social position, for these are her natural possessions.

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.

Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.

There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!

Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.

The First Bond of Society is Marriage.

It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.

[Matrimony] is the grave of love.

Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.

Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.

Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.

Matrimony is the price of love -- divorce, the rebate.

For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.

A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry.

One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.

Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.

You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.

A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in.

Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

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

If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.

She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.

When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.