Top 100 Quotes About Matrimony
#1. An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.
Ursula Parrott
#2. One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
Rita Mae Brown
#3. 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
#4. Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony
but most of them are merely poor dodgers.
Helen Rowland
#5. Life is a walk in the fog. Most people don't know that. They're fooled by the sunlight into thinking they can see what's ahead. But it's the reason they are forever getting lost or falling into ditches or committing matrimony.
Jack McDevitt
#6. 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
#7. Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.
William Shakespeare
#8. Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony.
Frank Leslie
#9. 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
#10. My husband would do anything for me ... ' It's degrading. No human being ought to have such power over another."
"It's a very real power, Harriet."
"Then ... we won't use it. If we disagree, we'll fight it out like gentlemen. We won't stand for matrimonial blackmail.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#11. Ode to the Chamber
... linger here amidst the chamber
in which we embrace our love
talk to me of sonnets
and call me turtledove ...
Muse
#12. [O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.
Charlotte Bronte
#13. she feels still that grasp upon her ankle as if it were a circlet of iron: the embodiment of matrimony. She would be pinned, like the museum butterflies. He would remain free to flutter.
Emmanuelle De Maupassant
#14. Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?.
Louis Gustave Vapereau
#15. [Marriage] promote[s] the moral order of the world - Edith Wharton "The Eyes
S.T. Joshi
#16. I asked of Echo 't other day (Whose words are few and often funny), What to a novice she could say Of courtship, love, and matrimony. Quoth Echo, plainly, Matter-o'-money.
John Godfrey Saxe
#17. Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.
John Lyly
#18. 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
#19. whenever you are transplanted, like me, Miss Woodhouse, you will understand how very delightful it is to meet with anything at all like what one has left behind. I always say this is quite one of the evils of matrimony.
Jane Austen
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. The opinion I have of the generality of women
who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than my time, forms a barrier against matrimony which I rejoice in.
John Keats
#23. It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
Oliver Goldsmith
#24. The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.
Louisa May Alcott
#25. [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
#26. Men in general sooner forget the lost their matrimony than the death of their father
Mario Puzo
#28. Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.
Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
#29. When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.
George Farquhar
#30. A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#31. Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.
Samuel Richardson
#33. 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
#34. In matters of religion and matrimony I never give advice, because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
Philip Dormer Stanhope
#35. They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.
Clint Eastwood
#36. [Exchange] the galling burden of bachelorship for the easy yoke of matrimony.
James Madison
#38. I wish one half the world were not fools, and the other half idiots.
Fanny Fern
#39. I've never created a riot before. I did cause a brawl at the last formal. A large number of young women there actually arrived with the expectation of seducing me into matrimony, and a couple of their mothers came to blows. It was hilari - I mean, dreadful. Simply dreadful.
Ilona Andrews
#40. I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.
George Carey
#41. She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.
Ovid
#42. I am the woman who,when the priest asks,"Is there any reason why this man and woman cannot be joined in holy matrimony?", would clear her throat or stand up to supposedly straighten her dress, thus making the groom and bride nervous for a minute.
Zukiswa Wanner
#43. There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
Anthony Trollope
#44. It is obvious that she is more interested in happiness than in the institution of marriage, in love and understanding than matrimony.
Azar Nafisi
#45. Only the most passionate, forthright kind of love would ever induce her to enter the confining state of matrimony.
Melanie Dickerson
#46. 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, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.
Boethius
#47. 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
#48. Marriage is one sweet way in which one can taste heaven on earth. Similarly, I can also become hell on earth.
Israelmore Ayivor
#50. Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
St. Jerome
#51. 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
#52. Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.
Evan Esar
#54. 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
#55. So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
Isadora Duncan
#56. I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up with when they look at them. There's one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
Billy Connolly
#57. Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.
Emily Murphy
#58. The Perfect Matrimony is the union of two beings; one who loves more, and the other who loves better. The best religion available to the human race is Love.
Samael Aun Weor
#59. 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
#60. If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#61. Tell me,is my grey hall an insuperable bar to matrimony?
Georgette Heyer
#62. My weakness for beautiful women is my most expensive vice, I still believe in matrimony, but I can't afford another try.
George Strait
#63. O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
Aaron Hill
#64. 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
#65. [Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
Michel De Montaigne
#66. INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the corner. It has even been known to wear a moustache.
Ambrose Bierce
#68. 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
#69. 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
#71. Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen
#72. May your union be filled with love
Annealed by passion
Built on a strong foundation
And tempered by time
Richard L. Ratliff
#73. If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.
Bruce Barton
#75. The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty of individuals. Water will seek its level; nature will have free course; and heart will answer to heart.
William Lloyd Garrison
#76. 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
#77. Marriage or matrimony is the union of male and female, involving shared life together.
Justinian I
#78. [I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.
Wallace Stegner
#79. Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe; in golf it is yourself against the world: no human being stays your progress as you drive your ball over the face of the globe.
Arnold Haultain
#80. The blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#81. Matrimony might be a fleeting folly that tricked you into believing that it would be forever, but it was harder to appreciate the humor when you were not the one who ended it
Elif Shafak
#82.
the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man ...
Thomas Hardy
#83. Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.
Samuel Lover
#85. If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...
William Shakespeare
#86. It is easier to avoid great matrimonial catastrophes than trivial everyday miseries.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#87. 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
#88. Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.
P.G. Wodehouse
#89. Matrimony and firefighting. They ain't for cowards.
Lois Greiman
#90. No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.
Heinrich Heine
#91. The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
A.P. Herbert
#92. Love is a farce; matrimony is a humbug; husbands are domestic Napoleons, Neroes, Alexanders,
sighing for other hearts to conquer, after they are sure of yours.
Fanny Fern
#93. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Peter De Vries
#96. In spite of this universal plunge toward matrimony, I still haven't lost my senses. If worse comes to worse, I still know how to run.
David Eddings
#97. Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
Moliere
#98. Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
Karl Kraus
#99. Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing.
Mikhail Lermontov
#100. There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.
Charles Dickens
