#matrimony

I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody) ↗

— Elizabeth Peters

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

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Anthony Trollope

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

— Frances Rodman

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

— Charlotte Brontë

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

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Bride, n. - A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Wallace Stegner

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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

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