Matrimony Quotes

Matrimony Quote of the day

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

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

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

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

[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.

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

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

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

A young man married is a man that's marred.

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

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

Throwing caution to the wind, leaping merrily into the unknown, onwards they plunge, into the voyage of matrimony.

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

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

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

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

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.

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

Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work.

Ode to the Chamber...linger here amidst the chamberin which we embrace our lovetalk to me of sonnetsand call me turtledove...

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

Only the most passionate love could ever induce me to marry.

If God had a wife He would be in just as much trouble as any man.

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.

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

An ‘usband should be plain enough to sit at his settle, and simple-minded enough to accept the stew on his plate, rather than looking round ev’ry corner for a more succulent chop, ’ declares Elsie.

Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.

Marriage is not kick-boxing, it's salsa dancing.

Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?

May your union be filled with loveAnnealed by passion Built on a strong foundation And tempered by time

Marriage is not 'I', its 'We'.

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

Marriage is one sweet way in which one can taste heaven on earth. Similarly, I can also become hell on earth.

That's the mistake people make - always searching for the perfect match, when they would be just as happy if they settled for somebody reasonably good.

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

[Marriage] promote[s] the moral order of the world - Edith Wharton "The Eyes

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

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

A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life.