Quotes About Marriage Matrimony

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

Christian Nestell Bovee

#2. Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding-ring!

Colley Cibber

#3. Matrimony was probably the first union to defy management.

Red Ruffing

#4. O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

Fanny Fern

#5. A young man married is a man that's marred.

William Shakespeare

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

Henry Ward Beecher

#7. There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil
improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?"
"Are you a young lady?"
"I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.

Charlotte Bronte

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

Charlotte Bronte

#9. In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

Samuel Butler

#10. If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

Elizabeth I

#11. There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

Charles Dickens

#12. Some women marry houses.

Anne Sexton

#13. Well married, a man is winged - ill-matched, he is shackled.

Henry Ward Beecher

#14. The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

A.P. Herbert

#15. No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.

Heinrich Heine

#16. Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

P.G. Wodehouse

#17. My first [wife] was an angel; My second a silly woman; My third a Roman Senator; My fourth a pretty little thing; My fifth - all woman!

Nat C. Goodwin

#18. If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...

William Shakespeare

#19. How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

Christine De Pizan

#20. Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

Jane Austen

#21. The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

Ogden Nash

#22. Pardon me; I must seem to you so stupid! Why is the property of the woman who commits Murder, and the property of the woman who commits Matrimony, dealt with alike by your law?

Frances Power Cobbe

#23. I am not only not going to be married, at present, but have very little intention of ever marrying at all.

Jane Austen

#24. Natural marriage, therefore, is fully understood in the light of its fulfilment in the sacrament of Matrimony: only in contemplating Christ does a person come to know the deepest truth about human relationships.

Pope Francis

#25. You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#26. I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle ... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)

Elizabeth Peters

#27. For marriage is like life in this - that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#28. Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?

Sue Townsend

#29. I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

Martha Gellhorn

#30. To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Simone De Beauvoir

#31. Only the most passionate love could ever induce me to marry.

Melanie Dickerson

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

Henry Fielding

#33. Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.

William Shakespeare

#34. Marriage is a lot of things-an alliance, a sacrament, a comedy, or a mistake; but it is definitely not a partnership because that implies equal gain. And every right-thinking woman knows the profit in matrimony is by all odds hers.

Phyllis McGinley

#35. I wish one half the world were not fools, and the other half idiots.

Fanny Fern

#36. The First Bond of Society is Marriage.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#37. [Exchange] the galling burden of bachelorship for the easy yoke of matrimony.

James Madison

#38. They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

Clint Eastwood

#39. That's the mistake people make - always searching for the perfect match, when they would be just as happy if they settled for somebody reasonably good.

Farahad Zama

#40. A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#41. [I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

Elizabeth I

#42. Izzy was utterly convinced. Never mind Arabian horses, African cheetahs. No creature in the world could bolt so quickly as a rake confronted with the word "marriage". They ought to shout it out at footraces rather than using starting pistols.
Ready, steady ... matrimony!

Tessa Dare

#43. It is obvious that she is more interested in happiness than in the institution of marriage, in love and understanding than matrimony.

Azar Nafisi

#44. An 'usband should be plain enough to sit at his settle, and simple-minded enough to accept the stew on his plate, rather than looking round ev'ry corner for a more succulent chop,' declares Elsie.

Emmanuelle De Maupassant

#45. Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.

John Lyly

#46. [Marriage] promote[s] the moral order of the world - Edith Wharton "The Eyes

S.T. Joshi

#47. Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?.

Louis Gustave Vapereau

#48. [O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

Charlotte Bronte

#49. 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

#50. I think marriage is dangerous. The idea of two people trying to possess each other is wrong. I don't think the flare of love lasts. Your mind rather than your emotions must answer for the success of matrimony. It must be friendship - a calm companionship which can last through the years.

Carole Lombard

#51. I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand
they only. Know this at last.

Charlotte Bronte

#52. What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.

Charlotte Bronte

#53. Marriage is one sweet way in which one can taste heaven on earth. Similarly, I can also become hell on earth.

Israelmore Ayivor

#54. There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

Greta Garbo

#55. He knew taht many of his compatriots avoided marriage at all costs. They saw matrimony as an annoyance, a wife as another person who would nag and prod. But when he repeated his vows, he heard "as long as we both shall life" and he hoped.

Courtney Milan

#56. When I hear that a friend has fallen into matrimony, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

Aaron Hill

#58. Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

Jane Austen

#59. [Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Michel De Montaigne

#60. People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

Thomas Hardy

#61. The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love ... the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.

Benjamin Franklin

#62. May your union be filled with love
Annealed by passion
Built on a strong foundation
And tempered by time

Richard L. Ratliff

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

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#64. Love is dirty-sloppy-stupid. The problem has always been: How do we contain such a dangerous substance (love) in the confines of holy matrimony without hurting or killing someone?
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Michael Ben Zehabe

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

Justinian I

#66. [I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

Wallace Stegner