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Tag Name "Matrimony" (117)

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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
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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
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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Ambrose Bierce
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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
Walter Scott
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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
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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
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Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.
William Glasser
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Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
Albert Einstein
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A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in.
William Shakespeare
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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.
Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
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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.
Yasmin Mogahed
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Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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Matrimony was probably the first union to defy management.
Red Ruffing
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We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.
Robert Fulghum
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Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
Helen Rowland
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That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.
Charles Caleb Colton
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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
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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
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Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
Jane Austen
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Marriages on earth--because they are the seminaries of the human race and of the angels of heaven also because, likewise, they proceed from a spiritual origin, that is, from the marriage of good and truth and since, in addition, the Lord's divine proceeding principally flows into conjugal love--are most holy in the estimation of the angels.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
Rumi
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Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.
Samuel Lover
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Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony is it from charity, or revenge ?.
Louis Gustave Vapereau
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