Matrimony Quotes - Page 7

• Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

  Madeleine de Scudery

  Marriage, Eye, Men

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• The faults of advertising are only those common to all human institutions. If advertising speaks to a thousand in order to influence one, so does the church. And if it encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony. Good times, bad times, there will always be advertising. In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times they have to.

  Bruce Barton

  Mean, Order, People

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• For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.

  Johannes Brahms

  Delight, Opera, Shallow

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• [Exchange] the galling burden of bachelorship for the easy yoke of matrimony.

  James Madison

  Marriage, Advice, Yoke

  James Madison (1867). “1816-1828”, p.568

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• Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part.

  Edward Young

  Men, Wife, Soul

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.25

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• 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.

  Jack McDevitt

  Fall, Thinking, Fog

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• The best time for marriage will be towards thirty, for as the younger times are unfit, either to choose or to govern a wife and family, so, if thou stay long, thou shalt hardly see the education of thy children, who, being left to strangers, are in effect lost; and better were it to be unborn than ill-bred; for thereby thy posterity shall either perish, or remain a shame to thy name.

  Walter Raleigh

  Children, Names, Wife

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• Jealousy destroys the matrimonies; jealousy destroys the friendships, jealousy provokes religious wars, fratricidal hates, murderers and all kind of suffering.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Religious, Hate, War

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• 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

  Love Is, Race, Two

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• The first diabolical character who intruded himself on my peaceful youth (as I called to mind that day at Dullborough), was a certain Captain Murderer. This wretch must have been an off-shoot of the Blue Beard family, but I had no suspicion of the consanguinity in those times. His warning name would seem to have awakened no general prejudice against him, for he was admitted into the best society and possessed immense wealth. Captain Murderer's mission was matrimony, and the gratification of a cannibal appetite with tender brides.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Names, Blue

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: The Uncommercial Traveller”, p.146, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor.

  Lord Byron

  Wine, Flavor, Vinegar

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 3, st. 5

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• I never understood exactly why people get engaged--The only time I ever did the most disastrous things happened--but I feel that there's a great deal to be said for immediate matrimony always. If I once got started I'd probably have to become a mormon to cover my confusion. What I mean is that if he and she are crazy about each other it is sheer tempting God to stay apart, come what may. And if people arent crazy about each other being engaged wont help them.

  John Dos Passos

  Marriage, Crazy, Mean

  John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Marriage, Bird, Despair

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.873, 谷月社

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• Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.

  Boethius

  Stars, Heart, Order

  Boethius, David R Slavitt (2008). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• I think marriage is dangerous. The idea of two people trying to possess each other is wrong. I don't think the flare of love lasts. Your mind rather than your emotions must answer for the success of matrimony. It must be friendship - a calm companionship which can last through the years.

  Carole Lombard

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?.

  Louis Gustave Vapereau

  Marriage, Revenge, Charity

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• Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce you for refusing to spend forty hours a week making up lies about toilet paper.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Jobs, Lying, Humorous

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.42, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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

  Children, Women, Giving

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.752, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Echoes, Novices, Matter

  John Godfrey Saxe (1866). “The Masquerade: And Other Poems”, p.195

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• As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they call it to take the first good Christian that comes; that runs into matrimony, as a horse rushes into battle; I can say nothing to them, but this, that they are a sort of ladies that are to be pray'd for among the rest of distemper'd people; and to me they look like people that venture their whole estates in a lottery where there is a hundred thousand blanks to one prize.

  Daniel Defoe

  Christian, Running, Horse

  Daniel Defoe (1840). “The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt”

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• 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

  Love Is, Cherish, Embarrassing

  Mikhail Lermontov (2015). “A Hero of Our Time”, p.103, Xist Publishing

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• The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Single, Maids

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• Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.

  Helen Rowland

  Men, Poor, Achieve

  Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.25, Litres

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• I am humbly following in your footsteps and having a row with the Government over the iniquity of the Marriage Tax in the form of supertax ... our incomes being added together we are liable for supertax which we are refusing to pay on the grounds of morality as I consider in a Christian country it is an immoral and outrageous act to tax me because I am living in Holy matrimony instead of as my husband's mistress.

  Marie Stopes

  Christian, Country, Husband

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• 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

  Sex, Men, Dating

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