Quotes on Matrimony

If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.

My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky

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.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

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

Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

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.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

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

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.

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

As God adds his 'Yes' to your 'Yes,' as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your triumph and rejoicing and pride, he makes you at the same time instruments of his will and purpose both for yourselves and for others. In his unfathomable condescension God does add his 'Yes' to yours; but by doing so, he creates out of your love something quite new - the holy estate of matrimony.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

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