Wedlock Quotes - Page 2

• I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.

  Joe Klein

  Believe, School, Inappropriate Behavior

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• It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5019, Delphi Classics

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• Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

  Aeschylus

  Passion, Men, Victory

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• Wedlock is a padlock.

  John Ray

  Marriage, Padlocks

  John Ray (1818). “A compleat collection of English proverbs. To which is added, A collection of English words not generally used. Repr. verbatim from the ed. of 1768”, p.31

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• Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.

  Plutarch

  Husband, Men, Wife

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• Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Husband, Wife, Together

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• If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Loyalty, Husband, Believe

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (1890). “Womankind”

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• The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl will plunge into it, sometimes without either fear or wit; at twenty, she will begin to think; at twenty-four, will weigh and discriminate; at twenty-eight, will be afraid of venturing; at thirty, will turn about, and look down the hill she has ascended, and sometimes rejoice, sometimes repent, that she has gained that summit sola.

  Samuel Richardson

  Marriage, Girl, Women

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• The wedlocks of minds will be greater than that of bodies.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Mind, Body, Greater

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• But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.

  Aeschylus

  Soulmate, Passion, Heart

  Aeschylus (2011). “The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia”, p.117, Oxford University Press

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• To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Passion, Storm, Tempest

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• I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

  St. Jerome

  Marriage, Unions, Praise

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• The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Land, Stranger, Natural

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• Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Strong, Soul, Fusion

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• The zooming wealth of the top 1 percent is a problem, but it's not nearly as big a problem as the tens of millions of Americans who have dropped out of high school or college. It's not nearly as big a problem as the 40 percent of children who are born out of wedlock. It's not nearly as big a problem as the nation's stagnant human capital, its stagnant social mobility and the disorganized social fabric for the bottom 50 percent.

  David Brooks

  Education, Children, School

  FaceBook post by David Brooks from Nov 01, 2011

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• Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Husband, Wife, Firsts

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• If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Men, Mind, Sides

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.93

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• Look at all of the out-of-wedlock births that are going on, particularly in our inner cities. I have been speaking at a lot of the non-profit organizations that support organizations that support these women so that they don't have an abortion, so that they have the baby.

  Benjamin Carson

  Baby, Cities, Organization

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I don't believe in bringing children into the world out of wedlock.

  Eartha Kitt

  Children, Believe, World

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• The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking couple having a really swell time copulating outside wedlock, and having to quit for one reason or another while doing it is still a novelty.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Couple, Stories, May

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.81, Penguin

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• Hollywood has glorified adult premarital sex, and that is unhelpful if your goal is to reduce teen pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births.

  Joe Lieberman

  Sex, Pregnancy, Goal

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• Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

  Honore de Balzac

  Girl, Mother, Men

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• I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up.

  Ethel Waters

  Born

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• Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Husband, Vines

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.98

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• If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Honest, Desdemona

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.846, Wordsworth Editions

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