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Tag Name "Matrimony" (117)

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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
Walter Scott
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For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: It is unlucky to marry in May.
Ovid
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But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty of individuals. Water will seek its level nature will have free course and heart will answer to heart.
William Lloyd Garrison
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Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.
Helen Rowland
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The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
A. P. Herbert
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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
John Lennon
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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
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matrimony is a very dangerous disorder I had rather drink.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
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Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.
Evan Esar
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Metellus Numidicus, the censor, acknowledged to the Roman people, in a public oration, that had kind nature allowed us to exist without the help of women, we should be delivered from a very troublesome companion and he could recommend matrimony only as the sacrifice of private pleasure to public duty.
Edward Gibbon
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Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to mellow and season it.
Theodore Parker
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And, to all married men, be this a caution, Which they should duly tender as their life, Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife.
Philip Massinger
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Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true.
Robert Breault
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Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.
Charles Kingsley
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
Michel de Montaigne
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Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce you for refusing to spend forty hours a week making up lies about toilet paper.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom.
Jeremy Taylor
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Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.
Homer
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Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Marilyn Monroe
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Life is a walk in the fog. Most people don't know that. They're fooled by the sunlight into thinking they can see what's ahead. But it's the reason they are forever getting lost or falling into ditches or committing matrimony.
Jack McDevitt
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When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony.
Helen Nielsen
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There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.
Samuel Richardson
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[Exchange] the galling burden of bachelorship for the easy yoke of matrimony.
James Madison
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