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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. -- Karl Kraus
Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented. -- Heinrich Heine
The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time. -- A. P. Herbert
Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. -- Ambrose Bierce
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly. -- Peter De Vries
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course. -- Helen Rowland
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. -- Jane Austen
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. -- Jane Austen
[Matrimony] is the grave of love. -- Giacomo Casanova
Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence. -- Eddie Cantor
Matrimony was probably the first union to defy management. -- Red Ruffing
Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor. -- Emily Murphy
Matrimony is the price of love -- divorce, the rebate. -- Helen Rowland
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament. -- St. Jerome
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. -- Samael Aun Weor
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. -- Benjamin Franklin
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The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time. -- Alan Patrick Herbert
Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal. -- Ovid
Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag. -- Michel de Montaigne
Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh. -- Charles Kingsley
You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married. -- Walter Savage Landor
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives. -- Moliere
If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony. -- Bruce Barton
A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry. -- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony. -- George Farquhar
I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony. -- George Carey
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. -- Anthony Trollope
Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony. -- Frank Leslie
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance. -- Isadora Duncan
He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection. -- Robert Boyle
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt. -- Walter Scott
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.' -- Nancy Pearcey
And, to all married men, be this a caution, Which they should duly tender as their life, Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife. -- Philip Massinger
Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour. -- John Milton
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. -- Lord Chesterfield
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. -- Lord Chesterfield
An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies. -- William Shakespeare
Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want. -- Jane Austen
I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment. -- John Burnside
I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up with when they look at them. There's one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything. -- Billy Connolly
The reason for much matrimony is patrimony. -- Ogden Nash
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler
matrimony is a very dangerous disorder; I had rather drink. -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
[Exchange] the galling burden of bachelorship for the easy yoke of matrimony. -- James Madison
For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage. -- Johannes Brahms
No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony. -- Heinrich Heine
the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them. -- Wilkie Collins
Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?. -- Louis Gustave Vapereau
I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth] -- Jane Austen
It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock. -- Evan Esar
The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes. -- Louisa May Alcott
Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers. -- Helen Rowland
Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony? -- Sophie Kinsella
If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid. -- Elizabeth Bennett
An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony. -- Ursula Parrott
My weakness for beautiful women is my most expensive vice, I still believe in matrimony, but I can't afford another try. -- George Strait
As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself. -- Charlotte Bronte
When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony. -- Helen Nielsen
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony. -- Nancy Pearcey
Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing. -- Mikhail Lermontov
When I hear that a friend has fallen into matrimony, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
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. -- Fanny Fern
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. -- Lord Chesterfield
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. -- Martin Luther
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
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. -- John Godfrey Saxe
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. -- Martin Luther
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. -- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
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. -- Jane Austen
Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof. -- Samuel Richardson
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. -- John Keats
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. -- Ambrose Bierce

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