Wedlock Quotes

• To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

  Emma Goldman

  Doe, Body, Facts

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.141, Library of Alexandria

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• Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

  Armstrong Williams

  Education, Baby, Children

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• A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

  Theodore Parker

  Marriage, Falling In Love, Long

  Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.151

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• The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

  Marquis de Sade

  Marriage, Degradation, Horror

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

  Alexander Pope

  Funny, Marriage, Dream

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.284

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• I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Believe, Found

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.119, Univ of California Press

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• For what is wedlock forced but a hell,
  An age of discord and continual strife?
  Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,
  And is a pattern of celestial peace.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Patterns, Bliss

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.247, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Do we honestly believe that hopeless kids growing up under the harsh new rules will turn out to be chaste, studious, responsible adults? On the contrary, by limiting welfare, job training, education and nutritious food, won't we plant the seeds for another bumper crop of out-of-wedlock moms, deadbeat dads and worse?

  Richard Stolley

  Mom, Jobs, Dad

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• The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Character, Facts, Sometimes

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3194, Delphi Classics

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• A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

  Charles Simmons

  Inspirational, Wedding, Character

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.327

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• If you will learn the seriousness of life, and its beauty also, live for your husband; make him happy.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Husband, Seriousness, Ifs

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• Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of Heavens. So it would be impious to call ourselves 'miserable.' On the contrary, Man is a creature whom the Angels-were they capable of envy-would envy. Let us lift up our hearts!

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Angel, Men

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• A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help.

  Lionel Shriver

  Lying, Successful, World

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.175, Counterpoint Press

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• After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Together, Half

  Benjamin Franklin (1840). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.305

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• The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Eulogy, Married, Poet

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.14

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• Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

  Alexander Pope

  Marriage, Witty, Honest

  Alexander Pope, George Croly (1854). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]”, p.342

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• The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination.

  Washington Irving

  Character, Differences, Produce

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• Wedlock joins nothing, if it joins not hearts.

  James Sheridan Knowles

  Heart, Ifs

  James Sheridan Knowles (1856). “Dramatic Works: The love-chase. Woman's wit; or, Love's disguises. The maid of Mariendorpt. Love. John of Procida; or, The bridals of Messina. Old maids. The rose of Arragon. The secretary”, p.176

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• For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty.

  Philip Massinger

  Men, Liberty, Sells

  Philip Massinger, William Gifford, John Ferriar (1805). “Introduction; Essay on the dramatick writings of Massinger, by John Ferriar; Commendatory verses on Massinger; A list of Massinger's plays; Glossarial index. The virgin-martyr. The unnatural combat. The Duke of Milan”, p.24

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• Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.

  Samuel Johnson

  Atmosphere, Complacency, Conjugal

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• The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."

  William Rehnquist

  Rights, Funny Marriage, Holy

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• Wedlock's like wine - not properly judged of till the second glass.

  Ernest Jarrold

  Wine, Glasses, Judged

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• The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.

  George Eliot

  Water, Cheerful, Months

  George Eliot (1852). “Middlemarch”, p.230

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• The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Wedding, Locks

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• Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Lanes, Matrimony

  "Thirty Years: Being Poems New and Old" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, ("Magnus and Morna"), 1880.

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