2.
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
Moliere
5.
The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.
Ogden Nash
7.
For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.
Henry Fielding
9.
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
Walter Scott
11.
If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.
Ovid
13.
Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.
John Lyly
14.
She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.
Ovid
15.
Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.
Samuel Lover
16.
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
17.
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
Isadora Duncan
18.
O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
Aaron Hill
20.
There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.
Samuel Richardson
21.
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
Anthony Trollope
22.
When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.
Henry Ward Beecher
23.
Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.
Elizabeth Bennett
24.
It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
Oliver Goldsmith
25.
Matrimony is the price of love -- divorce, the rebate.
Helen Rowland
27.
I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony.
Jennifer Ehle
28.
As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.
Charlotte Bronte
29.
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