Quotes About Matrimony

I'm looking for a wife, not a temporary fling but an everlasting love.

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.

The second crazy wife. Was there any other kind?

The only cure for love is marriage

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

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.

and perfectly capable of bearing children if only she chose to marry.

hiwisc, implies a married couple.

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. - Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894 Virginibus Puerisque The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. - Ezekiel, 18:2 The Bible

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

Love is a tie that binds; matrimony straps them together

The legend that matrimony is a lottery has almost ruined the lottery business

Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had.

You may write it on his tombstone, You may cut it on his card, That a young man married is a young man marred

Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. -Matthew 19:6

If we are to believe Schopenhauer, women are incapable of romantic love and merely use man's love hunger as bait to fish babies out of the treacherous sea of matrimony. Of course Schopenhauer, who threw a female servant down a flight of stairs, and was intimate with numerous women he hated philosophically, is no unbiased witness to woman's unfathomable treachery.

the greatest harm I could possibly suffer would be to lose my liberty, to be forced into a conventional life of domestic duties and matrimony.

When she was widowed, there were still pleasing qualities in her, suitable for an unpretentious everyday life, and people sent matchmakers to her, but she declined any new matrimony and busied herself with the baking of savory pies.