Quotes and Sayings About Matrimony
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O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
-- Aaron Hill -
Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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 -
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 -
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 Deland -
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 Barca -
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 Lover
