Matrimony Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Men, Wife, Doubt

  Philip Massinger (1761). “Dramatic Works: The renegado. The picture. The fatal dowry. The emperor of the East. The maid of honour”, p.188

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• 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

  Husband, Men, Bait

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.77, Palgrave Macmillan

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• 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

  Men, Law, Female

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, John Banks, Michael Arne, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Caractacus”

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• From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

  Walter Scott

  First Love, Snow, Twenties

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• A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel - she should marry.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Stronger, Needs, Should

  "El Purgatorio de Sans Patricio". Play by Pedro Calderon de la Barca (Act III, Scene 4), translated, 1685.

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• Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Wife, Despair, Should

  1609 Leontes. The Winter's Tale, act1, sc.2, l.199-201.

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

  Isadora Duncan

  Marriage, Firsts, Ends

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• What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Heart, Lavender, Favour

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1859). “The Oxford Thackeray: With Illus”, p.339

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Causes, Enterprising

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.49

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• When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, States

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May.

  Ovid

  Believe, May, Common

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

  Walter Savage Landor

  Married, Should, Roadside

  Walter Savage Landor (1969). “Poems”

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• As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Art, Husband, Wife

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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• Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.

  Wilkie Collins

  Husband, Wife, Care

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.260, e-artnow sro

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• Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Husband, Smell

  1603-4 Emilia to Desdemona. Othello, act 4, sc.3, l.92-5.

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• Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Cat, Bags

  "Essays", Book III, Chapter V, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 495-500, 1922.

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• Two consorts in heaven are not two, but one angel.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Angel, Two, Heaven

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1758). “Heaven and Hell: Also the World of Spirits Or Intermediate State from Things Heard and Seen by Emanuel Swedenborg”, p.222

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• Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Change

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.482, Princeton University Press

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• Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Funny, Relationship

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

  Walter Scott

  Responsibility, Snow, Statues

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• The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures.

  John Ford

  Princess, Earth Life, Joy

  'The Broken Heart' (1633) act 2, sc. 2

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• Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

  Jane Austen

  Integrity, Romance, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (2006). “Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P”, p.284, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Relationship, Marriage, Couple

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• In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.

  R. C. Sproul

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

  William Glasser

  Friendship, Relationship, Marriage

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