#matrimony

Still it is true that many same-sex couples want nothing more than to join society as fully integrated socially responsible family-centered taxpaying Little League-coaching nation-serving respectably married citizens. So why not welcome them in Why not recruit them by the vanload to sweep in on heroic wings and save the flagging and battered old institution of matrimony from a bunch of apathetic ne'er-do-well heterosexual deadbeats like me ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#gay-marriage #gay-rights #homosexual #humor #marriage

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#matrimony #marriage

That's the mistake people make - always searching for the perfect match, when they would be just as happy if they settled for somebody reasonably good. ↗

— Farahad Zama

#matrimony #marriage

Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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

— Peter De Vries

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Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had. ↗

— Frances Rodman

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[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#husbands #inequality #inferiority #marriage #matrimony

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#british-monarchy #british-royal-family #dignity #empowerment #freedom

[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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LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#empowerment #equality #freedom #happiness #husbands