2.
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
Moliere
5.
The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.
Ogden Nash
6.
For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.
Henry Fielding
8.
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
Walter Scott
10.
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
Anthony Trollope
11.
When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.
Henry Ward Beecher
12.
Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.
Elizabeth Bennett
13.
It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
Oliver Goldsmith
15.
If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.
Ovid
17.
Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.
John Lyly
18.
She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.
Ovid
19.
Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.
Samuel Lover
20.
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
21.
O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
Aaron Hill
22.
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
Isadora Duncan
23.
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
25.
Matrimony is the price of love -- divorce, the rebate.
Helen Rowland
26.
I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony.
Jennifer Ehle
28.
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
29.
As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.
Charlotte Bronte