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. Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony
but most of them are merely poor dodgers.
Helen Rowland
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony.
Frank Leslie
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?.
Louis Gustave Vapereau
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
Oliver Goldsmith
#15. The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.
Louisa May Alcott
#16. Men in general sooner forget the lost their matrimony than the death of their father
Mario Puzo
#18. 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
#19. When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.
George Farquhar
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. [Exchange] the galling burden of bachelorship for the easy yoke of matrimony.
James Madison
#23. 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
#24. I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.
George Carey
#25. 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
#26. There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
Anthony Trollope
#27. It is obvious that she is more interested in happiness than in the institution of marriage, in love and understanding than matrimony.
Azar Nafisi
#28. Only the most passionate, forthright kind of love would ever induce her to enter the confining state of matrimony.
Melanie Dickerson
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.
Evan Esar
#32. 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
#33. So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
Isadora Duncan
#34. 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
#35. Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.
Emily Murphy
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#39. Tell me,is my grey hall an insuperable bar to matrimony?
Georgette Heyer
#40. My weakness for beautiful women is my most expensive vice, I still believe in matrimony, but I can't afford another try.
George Strait
#41. 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
#42. 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
#44. 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
#45. Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen
#46. If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.
Bruce Barton
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. Marriage or matrimony is the union of male and female, involving shared life together.
Justinian I
#50. 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
#51. The blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#52. 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
#54. Matrimony and firefighting. They ain't for cowards.
Lois Greiman
#55. No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.
Heinrich Heine
#56. The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
A.P. Herbert
#57. 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
#58. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Peter De Vries
#59. 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
#60. Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
Karl Kraus
#61. 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
#62. Matrimony, he began to think, was a cure for an illness he hadn't known he had.
Ann Packer
#63. Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
Heinrich Heine
#64. I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.
Jane Austen
#65. In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
Samuel Butler
#66. 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.
John Burnside
#67. Matrimony is the price of love
divorce, the rebate.
Helen Rowland
#68. I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth]
Jane Austen
#69. As far as my experience of matrimony goes
I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.
Charlotte Bronte
#70. Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I will end up an old maid.
Jane Austen
#72. Matrimony and the toothache may be survived, but of all the evils femininity is heir to, defend me from a shopping excursion.
Fanny Fern
#73. Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from every divine and human office and calling.
Martin Luther
#74. Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
Helen Rowland
#76. When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony.
Helen Nielsen
#77. Those men and women who follow the path of the Perfect Matrimony finally gain the bliss of entering Nirvana, which is to be in oblivion of the world and men forever...
Samael Aun Weor
#78. Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Ambrose Bierce
#79. In the consciousness of belonging together, in the sense of constancy, resides the sanctity, the beauty of matrimony, which helps us to endure pain more easily, to enjoy happiness doubly, and to give rise to the fullest and finest development of our nature.
Fanny Lewald
#80. 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
#81. Matrimony sites have made this world even more small and Fake
Subhasis Das
#82. Matrimony was probably the first union to defy management.
Red Ruffing
#83. Women are like bottles of liquor. They should be sampled,
savored, then discarded. Matrimony is for men who can't
handle their liquor.
Gena Showalter
#84. After fourteen years of matrimony, I have discovered that hoping your other half telepathically reads your mind only leads to someone wanting to punch the other one in the face.
Twinkle Khanna
#85. Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce you for refusing to spend forty hours a week making up lies about toilet paper.
P. J. O'Rourke
#86. The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.
Ogden Nash
#87. Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony?
Sophie Kinsella
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.
Wilkie Collins
#92. A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen
#93. The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one who, running out of the rain, falls into the river.
Martin Luther
#94. For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.
Johannes Brahms
#95. 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!
Margaret Deland
#97. One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
Rita Mae Brown
#98. 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
#99. Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.
William Shakespeare
#100. 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
