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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.

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

    Sweet   Husband   Smell  
    1603-4 Emilia to Desdemona. Othello, act 4, sc.3, l.92-5.
  • 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.

    Men   Wife   Littles  
    Thomas Smart Hughes, Thomas Sherlock, Jeremy Taylor (1837). “Summaries of the sermons and discourses of Sherlock and Jeremy Taylor”, p.309
  • Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

    Helen Rowland (2017). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.42, Litres
  • 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, Alexander Dyce, William Gifford (1965). “Love's sacrifice. Perkin Warbeck. The fancies chaste and noble”
  • 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.

    Echoes   Novices   Matter  
    John Godfrey Saxe (1866). “The Masquerade: And Other Poems”, p.195
  • So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

  • An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.

    Divorce   Wife   Necks  
    Ursula Parrott (1989). “Ex-wife”, Plume
  • 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.

    Thinking   Years   Ideas  
    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

  • Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

    Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.104, 谷月社
  • Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is, that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.

    "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 115), 1886.
  • 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.

    Mother   Feet   Joy  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.169, Harvard University Press
  • My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky

    Nizar Qabbani, “My Lover Asks Me”
  • Matrimony was probably the first union to defy management.

  • People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.

    Funny   Couple   Husband  
    Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.17, Fawcett
  • Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.

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

    World   Too Short   Ends  
    William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.165
  • Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

    Heart   Lavender   Favour  
    William Makepeace Thackeray (1859). “The Oxford Thackeray: With Illus”, p.339
  • For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl. [Ger., Denn ein wackerer Mann verdient ein begutertes Madchen.]

    Girl   Men   Brave  
  • 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.

    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
  • INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the corner. It has even been known to wear a moustache.

    Life   Justice   May  
    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.125, University of Georgia Press
  • For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.

    Delight   Opera   Shallow  
  • 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 (1881). “Marriage [by S.E. Ferrier]. Edinb. ed”
  • Determine to pray more words over your marriage than you speak about your marriage.

    FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Sep 27, 2015
  • 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.

    Husband   Men   Bait  
    William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.77, Palgrave Macmillan
  • Spouses often point out each other's deficiencies. Instead, we should be each other's motivator. My husband touches my spirit, and I try my best to motivate him, too.

    Husband   Trying   Spirit  
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