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Pastoral Resources
Sermon Quotations Archive
Quotations regarding 'Matrimony'
18 entries
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen, British Writer (1775-1817)
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen, British Writer (1775-1817)
Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist (1842- )
I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.
George Carey, English Clergyman (1935- )
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman (1694- )
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
Isadora Duncan, American Dancer (1877-1927)
When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.
George Farquhar, Irish Dramatist
Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
Heinrich Heine, German Poet (1797-1856)
The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
A. P. Herbert, English Statesman (1890-1971)
The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time.
Alan Patrick Herbert, British Novelist (1890-1971)
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
Karl Kraus, Austrian Writer (1874-1936)
Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony.
Frank Leslie, American Artist
Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had.
Frances Rodman, -
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
Helen Rowland, American Writer
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish Playwright (1751-1816)
If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer (1850-1894)
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
Anthony Trollope, English Author (1815-1882)
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Peter De Vries, American Novelist (1910-1993)
18 entries