Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.
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.
Matrimony was probably the first union to defy management.
For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.
When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.
It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.
There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.
[Matrimony] is the grave of love.
The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.
Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.
It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
