quotes about Matrimony
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O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
-- Aaron HillSource : Aaron Hill (1760). “Muses in mourning. Zara, to which is added, an interlude, never before printed. Snake in the grass. Alzira. Saul. Daraxes. Merope. Roman revenge. Insolvent. Some love letters, by the author”, p.147
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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik -
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Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.
-- Eddie CantorSource : Quoted in Reader's Digest, Mar. 1934
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Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.
-- Elizabeth Bennett -
There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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Matrimony is the price of love -- divorce, the rebate.
-- Helen Rowland -
When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
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 DelandSource : Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.67, Wildside Press LLC
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It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.
-- Mary Wortley Montagu -
A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry.
-- Pedro Calderon de la BarcaSource : "El Purgatorio de Sans Patricio". Play by Pedro Calderon de la Barca (Act III, Scene 4), translated, 1685.
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If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson -
Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.
-- Samuel LoverSource : Samuel Lover (1858). “Songs and Ballads ... Fourth edition”, p.92
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