Top 62 Quotes About Wedlock

#1. Hollywood has glorified adult premarital sex, and that is unhelpful if your goal is to reduce teen pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births.

Joe Lieberman

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#2. For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty.

Philip Massinger

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#3. A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

Theodore Parker

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#4. My love has placed her little hand With noble faith in mine, And vowed that wedlock's sacred band Our nature shall entwine. My love has sworn, with sealing kiss, With me to live
to die; I have at last my nameless bliss: As I love
loved am I!

Charlotte Bronte

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#5. The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

Christopher Morley

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#6. If you will learn the seriousness of life, and its beauty also, live for your husband; make him happy.

Fredrika Bremer

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#7. I don't believe in bringing children into the world out of wedlock.

Eartha Kitt

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#8. Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to tier aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand.

John Milton

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#9. The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."

William Rehnquist

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#10. Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

Honore De Balzac

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#11. Wedlock is a padlock.

John Ray

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#12. Wedlock's like wine - not properly judged of till the second glass.

Ernest Jarrold

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#13. If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.

William Shakespeare

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#14. To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

Emma Goldman

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#15. They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Alexander Pope

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#16. 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

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#17. Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

Armstrong Williams

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#18. One child out of wedlock is an error. Two suggests carelessness. Three - and six - is simply wrong. Wrong.

Eloisa James

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#19. Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock ... Common, to see the offspring they had made; The human race began to mellow then. Because of fire their shivering forms no longer Could bear the cold beneath the covering sky.

Lucretius

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#20. Contraception leads to more babies being born out of wedlock, like fire extinguishers lead to more fires.

Stephen Colbert

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

St. Jerome

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#22. The wedlocks of minds will be greater than that of bodies.

Desiderius Erasmus

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#23. But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.

Aeschylus

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

Evan Esar

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#25. Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try,
And ring suspected vessels ere they buy;
But wives, a random choice, untried they take;
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake;
Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away,
And all the woman glares in open day.

Alexander Pope

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#26. Look at all of the out-of-wedlock births that are going on, particularly in our inner cities. I have been speaking at a lot of the non-profit organizations that support organizations that support these women so that they don't have an abortion, so that they have the baby.

Benjamin Carson

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#27. Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So in 1996 we had welfare reform. Did not change the trend in the least. Soon half of all babies will be born out of wedlock.

Gail Collins

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#28. I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.

Joe Klein

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#29. Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

Aeschylus

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#30. The lads I've met in cupid's deadlock
Were - shall we say? - born out of wedlock

Dorothy Parker

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#31. I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

Anatole Broyard

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#32. Before the code, women on screen took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, held down professional positions without apologizing for their self-sufficiency, and in general acted the way many of us think woman acted only after 1969.

Mick LaSalle

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#33. Men marry. Women wed.

Raheel Farooq

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#34. The Fawleys were not made for wedlock: it never seemed to sit well upon us. There's sommat in our blood that won't take kindly to the notion of being bound to do what we do readily enough if not bound ...

Thomas Hardy

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#35. Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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#36. After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.

Benjamin Franklin

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#37. Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave

Robert Louis Stevenson

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#38. Anna Wren was not for him. She was of a different class than he, and, moreover, she was a respectable widow from the village. She wasn't a sophisticated society lady who might consider a liaison outside of wedlock.

Elizabeth Hoyt

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#39. The Epistle to the Galatians is my epistle. To it I am as it were in wedlock. It is my Katherine.

Martin Luther

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#40. The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

Heraclitus

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#41. It began to really eat away with me that in the '60s the federal government, desiring to help poor moms who were dealing with deadbeat dads, decided, 'We'll help: we'll give a check for every child you can have out of wedlock.'

Louie Gohmert

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#42. 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 If Love, by which the heavens are ruled, To rule men's minds is set in place!

Boethius

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#43. Wedlock is a narrow business.

Sally O'Reilly

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#44. For what is wedlock forced but a hell,
An age of discord and continual strife?
Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,
And is a pattern of celestial peace.

William Shakespeare

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#45. The primary reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think. Although this living may not be a real living. God! What contradictions when we seek to join in wedlock life and reason!

Bruce Lee

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#46. Saura nodded, bemused by the code of ethics that allowed for murder and kidnapping but balked at a lady touching a lord outside of the state of wedlock.

Christina Dodd

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#47. Wedlock joins nothing, if it joins not hearts.

James Sheridan Knowles

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#48. 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

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

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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#50. Everyone is sinning, so it's no longer rebellious to sin. You're just a conformist if you're drunk; and naked; driving around in a loud motorcycle; smoking cigarrettes; breaking commandments; getting pregnant out of wedlock. Everyone's done that. That's so tired!

Mark Driscoll

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#51. The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women - or teenage girls - to have children without a husband and survive without a job, out-of-wedlock births will remain ruinously high, and the inner city will continue to be marked by crime, poverty, and despair.

David Boaz

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#52. Will there not be any scandal if she marries *me*? I asked
not quite believing that living in pseudo-wedlock with a half-human foreign transvestite was any improvement over spinsterhood.

Marie Brennan

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#53. The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking couple having a really swell time copulating outside wedlock, and having to quit for one reason or another while doing it is still a novelty.

Kurt Vonnegut

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#54. But tell me, I beseech you, what man is that would submit his neck to the noose of wedlock, if, as wise men should, he did but first truly weigh the inconvenience of the thing? Or

Erasmus

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#55. More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.

Don Lemon

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#56. 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

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#57. A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

Charles Simmons

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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#59. Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

Hosea Ballou

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#60. God very commonly takes on the character of a husband to us. Indeed, the union by which he binds us to himself when he receives us into the bosom of the church is like sacred wedlock.

John Calvin

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

Alexander Pope

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#62. I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.

Samuel Johnson

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