Matrimony Quotes - Page 5

• There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.

  Samuel Richardson

  Giving Up, Married, Turns

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• Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.

  Charles Kingsley

  Self, Long, Miracle

  Charles Kingsley, Frederick Denison Maurice (1848). “The Saint's Tragedy; Or the True Story of Elizabeth of Hungary, Landgravine of Thuringia: Saint of the Romish Calendar. With a Preface by Professor Maurice”, p.126

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• There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Good Marriage, Delightful

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• He that marries is like the dogs who was married to the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which he marries; mayhap treasures and pearls, mayhap monsters and tempests, await him.

  Heinrich Heine

  Dog, Monsters, Treasure

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• A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.

  John Ford

  Single Life, Maintenance, Yoke

  John Ford, Alexander Dyce, William Gifford (1965). “Love's sacrifice. Perkin Warbeck. The fancies chaste and noble”

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• O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.

  Aaron Hill

  Heart, Hands, Curse

  Aaron Hill (1760). “Muses in mourning. Zara, to which is added, an interlude, never before printed. Snake in the grass. Alzira. Saul. Daraxes. Merope. Roman revenge. Insolvent. Some love letters, by the author”, p.147

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• 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.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Marriage, Funny Love, Police

  "Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records".

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• Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.

  William Cowper

  Missing, Lessons, Tales

  William Cowper (1858). “Works of Cowper and Thomson”, p.119

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• 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

  Children, Play, Maids

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• 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

  Girl, Dog, Cat

  Fanny Fern (1986). “Ruth Hall and Other Writings”, p.221, Rutgers University Press

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• 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

  Friendship, Love Is, Flames

  Samuel Richardson (1804). “The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson ...: Selected from the Original Manuscripts, Bequeathed by Him to His Family, to which are Prefixed, a Biographical Account of that Author, and Observations on His Writings”, p.188

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• When it shall please God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife. For from thence will spring all thy future good or evil; and it is an action of life, like unto a stratagem of war; wherein a man can err but once!

  Philip Sidney

  Spring, War, Men

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• I'll suffer no daughter of mine to play the fool with her heart, indeed! She shall marry for the purpose for which matrimony was ordained amongst people of birth--that is, for the aggrandisement of her family, the extending of their political influence--for becoming, in short, the depository of their mutual interest. These are the only purposes for which persons of rank ever think of marriage.

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Daughter, Heart, Thinking

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1881). “Marriage [by S.E. Ferrier]. Edinb. ed”

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• The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty of individuals. Water will seek its level; nature will have free course; and heart will answer to heart.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Heart, Color, Water

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• Metellus Numidicus, the censor, acknowledged to the Roman people, in a public oration, that had kind nature allowed us to exist without the help of women, we should be delivered from a very troublesome companion; and he could recommend matrimony only as the sacrifice of private pleasure to public duty.

  Edward Gibbon

  Sacrifice, People, Helping

  Edward Gibbon (1825). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1: Complete in Eight Volumes”, p.180

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• He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

  Francis Bacon

  Family, Marriage, Children

  Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Lucan 3

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• Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony?

  Sophie Kinsella

  Eye, Math, Class

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• For St. Paul only says that it is better to be married than to burn. Now I presume that if that apostle had known that providence would at an after day be so kind to any particular set of people as to furnish them with other means of extinguishing their fire than those of matrimony, he would have earnestly recmmended them to their practice.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Fire, Practice

  Thomas Jefferson, Lyman Henry Butterfield, Charles T. Cullen (1950). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1760-1776”

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• He quietly groaned. Again and again, he’d witnessed this phenomenon with his friends. They got married. They were happy in that sated, grateful way of infrequently pleasured men with a now-steady source of coitus. Then they went about crowing as if they’d invented the institution of matrimony and stood to earn a profit for every bachelor they could convert.

  Tessa Dare

  Grateful, Men, Way

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• Matrimony is the price of love -- divorce, the rebate.

  Helen Rowland

  Divorce, Price Of Love

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• Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Men, Wife, Littles

  Thomas Smart Hughes, Thomas Sherlock, Jeremy Taylor (1837). “Summaries of the sermons and discourses of Sherlock and Jeremy Taylor”, p.309

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• For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.
  [Ger., Denn ein wackerer Mann verdient ein begutertes Madchen.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Girl, Men, Brave

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• 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

  Running, Rain, Fall

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.298

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• One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Wife, Statistics, Found

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• Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.

  Elizabeth Bennett

  Maids, Ends, Deepest Love

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