This collection holds 47 matrimony quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Ovid, Helen Rowland and Jane Austen.

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[Matrimony] is the grave of love.

Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.

The first bond of society is marriage.

Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.

Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.

Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year.

If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.

Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

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

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

matrimony is a very dangerous disorder; I had rather drink.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.

You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.

Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.

I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

I don't miss being a priest. The fulfillment factor in matrimony is far greater.

I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony.

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

Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony.

For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.

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

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

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

There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of 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!

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

We were wearing jeans and t-shirts, and we just decided to drive to the courthouse and get married. We went to Arby's and had lunch - that's always been like one of my favorite places - so we decided to celebrate our holy matrimony with some roast beef.

I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up with when they look at them. There's one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.

I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.

She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

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