Top 89 Matrimony Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on December 3, 2024.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.
[Matrimony] is the grave of love.
The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.
Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.
When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.
Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.
Matrimony is the price of love -- divorce, the rebate.
O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.
I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'
I don't miss being a priest. The fulfillment factor in matrimony is far greater.
Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is, that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.
An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.
INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the corner. It has even been known to wear a moustache.
matrimony is a very dangerous disorder; I had rather drink.
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
In the consciousness of belonging together, in the sense of constancy, resides the sanctity, the beauty of matrimony, which helps us to endure pain more easily, to enjoy happiness doubly, and to give rise to the fullest and finest development of our nature.
The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
Matrimony was probably the first union to defy management.
For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.
Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.
My weakness for beautiful women is my most expensive vice, I still believe in matrimony, but I can't afford another try.
Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
[Exchange] the galling burden of bachelorship for the easy yoke of matrimony.
But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.
Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?.
Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
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!
the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing.
Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony?
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
Life is a walk in the fog. Most people don't know that. They're fooled by the sunlight into thinking they can see what's ahead. But it's the reason they are forever getting lost or falling into ditches or committing matrimony.
Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from every divine and human office and calling.
I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.
But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.
I asked of Echo 't other day (Whose words are few and often funny), What to a novice she could say Of courtship, love, and matrimony. Quoth Echo, plainly, "Matter-o'-money.
The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
The Perfect Matrimony is the union of two beings; one who loves more, and the other who loves better. The best religion available to the human race is Love.
No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.
The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than my time, forms a barrier against matrimony which I rejoice in.
The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one who, running out of the rain, falls into the river.
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony.
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.
Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Marriage is a lot of things-an alliance, a sacrament, a comedy, or a mistake; but it is definitely not a partnership because that implies equal gain. And every right-thinking woman knows the profit in matrimony is by all odds hers.
If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.
The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.
