Matrimony Quotes - Page 2

• When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.

  George Farquhar

  Marriage, Fall, Wonder

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.508

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• A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ivy, Wife, Ruins

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• If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me-- Either both or none.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Giving, Heaven

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.252

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• Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

  Alexander Pope

  Marriage, Witty, Honest

  Alexander Pope, George Croly (1854). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]”, p.342

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• That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ties, Perfection, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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

  Anthony Trollope

  Wealth, Easy, Respectable

  'Doctor Thorne' (1858) ch. 16

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

  Ovid

  Husband, Wells

  Ovid (1808). “Ovid's Epistles. Translated into English verse by various authors. To which is prefixed the Life of Ovid”, p.131

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• For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.

  Henry Fielding

  Children, Parent, Inclination

  Henry Fielding (1783). “The Beauties of Fielding. Carefully Selected ... To which is Added Some Account of His Life”, p.126

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• For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Girl, Men, Brave

  "Hermann and Dorothea". Poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, III. 19, October 1797.

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

  Moliere

  Men, Repent, Hasty

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 495-500, Les Femmes Savantes (1672), V. 5, 1922.

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• I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the lord chancellor, upon a due consideration of the characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter.

  Samuel Johnson

  Party, Believe, Character

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 461 (22 March 1776)

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• Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.

  Homer

  Mother, Father, Thee

  Homer (1891). “The Iliad of Homer: Several Versions”, p.162, Library of Alexandria

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• Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Doe, World

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 495-500, Virginibus Puerisque, Part I, 1922.

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

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Being A Woman, Danger, Marrying

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• 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

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  1813 Pride and Prejudice, ch.22.

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• To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Heaven, Purpose

  Friedrich Schiller (1843). “The Maid of Orleans, and Other Poems”, p.121

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• 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

  Funny, Humorous, Giving

  'Letters to Arthur Charles Stanhope, Esq.' (1817) Letter to A. C. Stanhope, 12 October 1765

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

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love

  'The Vicar of Wakefield' (1766) ch. 16

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• The sum of all that makes a just man happy
  Consists in the well choosing of his wife:
  And there, well to discharge it, does require
  Equality of years, of birth, of fortune;
  For beauty being poor, and not cried up
  By birth or wealth, can truly mix with neither.
  And wealth, when there's such difference in years,
  And fair descent, must make the yoke uneasy.

  Philip Massinger

  Men, Years, Differences

  Thomas Dekker, Philip Massinger (2010). “Elizabethan Drama II”, p.875, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Covenant, Salt, Bread

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1826, e-artnow

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• True it is, as society is instituted, marriage becomes somewhat of a lottery, for all its votaries are either the victims of Cupid or cupidity; in either instance, they are under the blinding influence of passion, and consequently but little subject to the control of reason.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  Passion, Littles, Influence

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• We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Feet, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.169, Harvard University Press

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• A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Too Short, Ends

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.165

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• I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.

  George Carey

  Rooms, Scripture, Holy

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Marriage, Men, Married

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.29

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