Matrimony Quotes - Page 6

• In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Marriage, Girl, Husband

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter X, 1840.

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• In the consciousness of belonging together, in the sense of constancy, resides the sanctity, the beauty of matrimony, which helps us to endure pain more easily, to enjoy happiness doubly, and to give rise to the fullest and finest development of our nature.

  Fanny Lewald

  Pain, Giving, Together

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• Marriage is a lot of things-an alliance, a sacrament, a comedy, or a mistake; but it is definitely not a partnership because that implies equal gain. And every right-thinking woman knows the profit in matrimony is by all odds hers.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Marriage, Mistake, Thinking

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Matrimony was probably the first union to defy management.

  Red Ruffing

  Marriage, Unions, Firsts

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• No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.

  Heinrich Heine

  Marriage, Sea, Compass

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• When I hear that a personal friend has fallen into matrimonial courses, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism — a holy sorrow, unmixed with anger.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Marriage, Sorrow, Theism

  "The Letters: With Some Personal Recollections".

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• 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.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Justice, May

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.125, University of Georgia Press

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• Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.

  Evan Esar

  Divorce, Keys, Wedlock

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• the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!

  Margaret Deland

  Ministry, Clergy, Profession

  Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.67, Wildside Press LLC

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• Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

  John Milton

  Anniversary, Marriage, Wedding

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 750

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• If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.

  John F. Kennedy

  Father, Wife, Different

  "A Hero for Our Time: An Intimate Story of the Kennedy Years". Book by Ralph G. Martin, 1983.

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• As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Thinking, Draws

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• We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Scratches, Language, Holy

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• He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

  Francis Bacon

  Children, Wife, Virtue

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

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• 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.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Couple, Husband

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.17, Fawcett

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• My weakness for beautiful women is my most expensive vice, I still believe in matrimony, but I can't afford another try.

  George Strait

  Relationship, Beautiful, Believe

  Song: Hollywood Squares

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• Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from every divine and human office and calling.

  Martin Luther

  Astrology, People, Office

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.343

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• I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up with when they look at them. There's one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.

  Billy Connolly

  Art, Two, People

  "My ambition is to be regarded as a nuisance". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• No man of common sense will value a woman the less, for not giving herself up at the first attack, or for not accepting his proposal without enquiring into his person or character; on the contrary, he must think her the weakest of all creatures in the world, as the rate of men now goes; in short, he must have a very contemptible opinion of her capacities, nay, even of her understanding, that having but one cast for her life, shall cast that life away at once, and make matrimony like death, be a leap in the dark.

  Daniel Defoe

  Character, Dark, Men

  Daniel Defoe (2011). “Moll Flanders”, p.94, OUP Oxford

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• The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.

  Will Durant

  Husband, Divorce, Men

  Will Durant (2011). “The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Ken Blanchard

  Husband, Trying, Spirit

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• The first bond of society is marriage.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Marriage, Wedding, Firsts

  "De Officiis (On Duties)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 17), 44 BC.

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• What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing.

  Andrew Schneider

  Men, Law, Two

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• I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the right ones The right ones to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you're supposed to meet.

  Andrew Schneider

  Husband, Believe, Thinking

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• Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe; in golf it is yourself against the world: no human being stays your progress as you drive your ball over the face of the globe.

  Arnold Haultain

  Golf, Games, Racing

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