Matrimony Quotes

[Matrimony] is the grave of love.

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

It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year.

Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

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

There are good marriages,
but there are no delightful ones.

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

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

Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.

It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.

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

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

There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.

Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.

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

When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.

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

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

Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.

If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.

You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.

Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.

Matrimony is the price of love -- divorce, the rebate.

matrimony is a very dangerous disorder; I had rather drink.

I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony.

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

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!