Matrimony famous quotes

O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
-- Aaron Hill

#Heart #Hands #Matrimony

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Taste #Incompatibility #Matrimony

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Causes #Matrimony

Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Lanes #Wedlock #Matrimony

Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.
-- Eddie Cantor

#Matrimony #Sentences

Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.
-- Elizabeth Bennett

#Maids #Ends #Matrimony

There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Good Marriage #Matrimony

[Matrimony] is the grave of love.
-- Giacomo Casanova

#Graves #Matrimony

Matrimony is the price of love -- divorce, the rebate.
-- Helen Rowland

#Divorce #Matrimony

When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Men #States #Matrimony

Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.
-- John Lyly

#Heaven #Made #Matrimony

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 #Matrimony

It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.
-- Mary Wortley Montagu

#Being A Woman #Danger #Matrimony

A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#Stronger #Needs #Matrimony

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

#Funny Love #Police #Matrimony

Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.
-- Samuel Lover

#Matrimony #Shovels