Matrimony Quotes

[Matrimony] is the grave of love.

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

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

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

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

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

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.

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

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

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

Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.

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

If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.

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

Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.

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

Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.

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

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.

Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.

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

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

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