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Marriage is destinie, made in heaven. — John Lyly

Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them. — Wilkie Collins

As far as my experience of matrimony goes
I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself. — Charlotte Bronte

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen

The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes. — Louisa May Alcott

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband. — Wallace Stegner

May your union be filled with love
Annealed by passion
Built on a strong foundation
And tempered by time — Richard L. Ratliff

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. — Martha Gellhorn

When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God. — Henry Ward Beecher

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

Only the most passionate, forthright kind of love would ever induce her to enter the confining state of matrimony. — Melanie Dickerson

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

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

Matrimony is a very dangerous disorder; I had rather drink. — Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor. — Aaron Hill

If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony. — Bruce Barton

Some women marry houses. — Anne Sexton

[Matrimony] is the grave of love. — Giacomo Casanova

It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time. — A.P. Herbert

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony. — Ogden Nash

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine. — Charlotte Bronte

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. — Anthony Trollope

Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony. — Frank Leslie

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. — Karl Kraus

Matrimony, he began to think, was a cure for an illness he hadn't known he had. — Ann Packer

It is easier to avoid great matrimonial catastrophes than trivial everyday miseries. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time. — Alan Patrick Herbert

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Well married, a man is winged - ill-matched, he is shackled. — Henry Ward Beecher

Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor. — Emily Murphy

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

Matrimony sites have made this world even more small and Fake — Subhasis Das

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

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse. — P.G. Wodehouse

[Exchange] the galling burden of bachelorship for the easy yoke of matrimony. — James Madison

For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage. — Johannes Brahms

She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above. — Ovid

Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock. — Evan Esar

Tell me,is my grey hall an insuperable bar to matrimony? — Georgette Heyer

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection. — Jane Austen

An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony. — Ursula Parrott

Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding-ring! — Colley Cibber

Matrimony was probably the first union to defy management. — Red Ruffing

You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married. — Walter Savage Landor

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. — Oliver Goldsmith

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

Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?. — Louis Gustave Vapereau

One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife. — Rita Mae Brown

Matrimony and firefighting. They ain't for cowards. — Lois Greiman

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning. — Clint Eastwood

It is obvious that she is more interested in happiness than in the institution of marriage, in love and understanding than matrimony. — Azar Nafisi

No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony. — Heinrich Heine

For marriage is like life in this - that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I am not only not going to be married, at present, but have very little intention of ever marrying at all. — Jane Austen

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

A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in. — William Shakespeare

Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony
but most of them are merely poor dodgers. — Helen Rowland

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

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly. — Peter De Vries

A young man married is a man that's marred. — William Shakespeare

My weakness for beautiful women is my most expensive vice, I still believe in matrimony, but I can't afford another try. — George Strait

Marriage or matrimony is the union of male and female, involving shared life together. — Justinian I

Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance. — Isadora Duncan

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

The First Bond of Society is Marriage. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Matrimony is the price of love
divorce, the rebate. — Helen Rowland

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens

[Marriage] promote[s] the moral order of the world - Edith Wharton "The Eyes — S.T. Joshi

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course. — Helen Rowland

[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

Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence. — Eddie Cantor

Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag. — Michel De Montaigne

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

You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs. — Samuel Lover

Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives. — Moliere

I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony. — George Carey

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. — Michel De Montaigne

Matrimony and the toothache may be survived, but of all the evils femininity is heir to, defend me from a shopping excursion. — Fanny Fern

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. — Simone De Beauvoir

Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I will end up an old maid. — Jane Austen

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. — Ambrose Bierce

There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented. — Heinrich Heine

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity. — Dorothy L. Sayers

For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power. — Henry Fielding

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

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ... — William Shakespeare

I wish one half the world were not fools, and the other half idiots. — Fanny Fern

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

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves. — William Shakespeare

Men in general sooner forget the lost their matrimony than the death of their father — Mario Puzo

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. — Elizabeth I

Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony? — Sophie Kinsella

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony. — George Farquhar

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. — Samuel Butler