#matrimony

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#heaven-made #lightning #marriage #married-life #matrimony

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

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens? ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#husbands #lovelessness #marriage #married-life #matrimony

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

#humor #life #love #marriage #matrimony

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

— Peter De Vries

#any #bonds #like #matrimony #mature

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

— Heinrich Heine

#compass #high #invented #matrimony #sea

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#bachelorhood #empowerment #freedom #independence #individuality

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Helen Rowland

#course #divorce #love #love is #matrimony