Money makes marriage. [ Proverb ]
Marriage is a science. [ Balzac ]
Marriage is a desperate thing. [ John Selden ]
A poor man gets a poor marriage. [ Proverb ]
Marriage is ever made by destiny. [ Chapman ]
From the bond or tie of marriage.
Marriage is the nursery of heaven! [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Marriage and hanging go by destiny. [ Proverb ]
Hasty marriage seldom proveth well. [ William Shakespeare ]
Marriage is often but ennui for two. [ Commerson ]
Marriage is the true road to Paradise. [ De la Ferriere ]
Friendship is the marriage of the soul. [ Voltaire ]
Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle,
The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh. [ Charles Kingsley ]
Marriage is sometimes only a long quarrel.
Bachelors are the freebooters of marriage. [ Balzac ]
Marriage with peace is the world's paradise. [ St. Augustine ]
It is the marriage of a cat and a dog together. [ Proverb ]
Trade hardly deems the busy day begun,
Till his keen eye along the sheet has run;
The blooming daughter throws her needle by.
And reads her schoolmate's marriage with a sigh;
While the grave mother puts her glasses on.
And gives a tear to some old crony gone.
The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays down,
To know what last new folly fills the town;
Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things.
The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting kings. [ Sprague ]
Love's history, as life's, is ended not by marriage. [ Bayard Taylor ]
Marriage is honourable, but housekeeping chargeable. [ Proverb ]
Of all serious things, marriage is the most ludicrous. [ Beaumarchais ]
More belongs to marriage than four bare legs in a bed. [ Proverb ]
He is the lawful heir whom marriage points out as such. [ Law ]
There is no game of chance more hazardous than marriage. [ J. David ]
In marriage, as in other things, contentment excels wealth. [ Molière ]
Before marriage, woman is a queen; after marriage, a subject.
Marriage is a treaty in which the conditions should be mutual. [ Balzac ]
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage the sunset of love.
Marriage was instituted as a penance for the sins of celibacy.
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage. [ Bacon ]
Rich in fit epithets, blest in the lovely marriage of pure words. [ Anthony Brewer ]
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. [ Balzac ]
He has a great fancy to marriage that goes to the devil for a wife. [ Proverb ]
When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Marriage often unites for life two people who scarcely know each other. [ Balzac ]
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. [ Colton ]
Marriage is not, like the hill of Olympus, wholly clear, without clouds. [ Thomas Fuller ]
Where there's marriage without love there will be love without marriage. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
Marriage communicates to women the vices of men, but never their virtues. [ Fourier ]
Marriage in our days? - I would almost say that it is a rape, by contract. [ Michelet ]
The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not their birth. [ Homer ]
To render a marriage happy, the husband should be deaf and the woman blind. [ Proverb ]
Marriage has in it less of beauty, but more of safety, than the single life. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Marriage leaps up upon the saddle, and soon after repentance upon the crupper. [ Proverb ]
The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination. [ Washington Irving ]
Strong are the instincts with which God has guarded the sacredness of marriage. [ Maria M'Intosh ]
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty, and women their happiness. [ Mme. de Rieux ]
It is in vain for a man to be born fortunate, if he be unfortunate in his marriage. [ Dacier ]
Love is more pleasing than marriage, because romances are more amusing than history. [ Chamfort ]
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
To make love only when signing the marriage certificate, is to take romance by the tail. [ Moliere ]
The instances, that second marriage move, are base respects of thrift, but none of love. [ William Shakespeare ]
If happiness could be prolonged from love into marriage, we should have paradise on earth. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
There is a French saying: Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
[ De Finod ]
Marriage should combat without respite or mercy that monster which devours everything, habit. [ Balzac ]
Love pleases more than marriage, for the reason that romance is more interesting than history. [ Chamfort ]
A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting-point for happiness and usefulness. [ Dean Stanley ]
Marriage is a tie that hope embellishes, that happiness preserves, and that adversity fortifies. [ Alibert ]
Nothing proves better the necessity of an indissoluble marriage than the instability of passion. [ Balzac ]
It is a mistake to consider marriage merely a scheme of happiness; it is also a bond of service. [ Chapin ]
God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another. [ Luther ]
Marriage is often the denouement of comedies and novels; tragedy is often the denouement of marriage. [ De Finod ]
Men may say of marriage and women what they please: they will renounce neither the one nor the other.
People who love each other most before marriage, are sometimes those who love each other least after it. [ A. Dupuy ]
Love in marriage would be the realization of a beautiful dream, if marriage were not too often the end of it. [ A. Karr ]
Marriage has its unknown great men, as war has its Napoleons, poetry its Cheniers, and philosophy its Descartes. [ Balzac ]
How the universal heart of man blesses flowers! They are wreathed round the cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]
In the opinion of the world marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the reverse; it begins all. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete. [ Beaconsfield ]
Often a man is irregular in his conduct solely because his position does not allow him the monotonous pleasures of marriage. [ La Beaumelle ]
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit. [ Addison ]
Marriage is a romance until the book is open. True, the preface is sometimes amusing, but it never lasts long, and it is always deceptive. [ Poincelot ]
Tom hinted at his dislike at some trifle his mistress had said; she asked him how he would talk to her after marriage if he talked at this rate before. [ Addison ]
To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a good woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence. [ Montaigne ]
To protect one's self against the storms of passion, marriage with a good woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman, it proves a tempest in the harbor. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult, - whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water, - which afterwards subside into cheerful peace. [ George Eliot ]
It is a curious thing about the game of marriage - a game, by the way, that is going out of fashion - the wives hold all the honors and invariably lose the odd trick. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Is not marriage an open question when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The same conditions should be made in marriage that are made in the case of houses that one rents for a term of three, six, or nine years, with the privilege of becoming the purchaser if the house suits. [ Hegesippe Moreau ]
An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman. [ Addison ]
How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness during the sequel of marriage! [ Frederic Saunders ]
To continue love in marriage is a science. It requires so little to kill those sweet emotions, those precious illusions, which form the charm of life; and it is so difficult to maintain a man at the height on which an exalted passion has placed him, especially when that man is one's husband! [ Mme. Reybaud ]
Paraphernalia, Trappings or Regalia? We often hear paraphernalia used in the sense of trappings or regalia; as, The Grand Marshal was conspicuous in his gorgeous paraphernalia
The word is derived from the Greek, and is strictly a law term, meaning whatever the wife brings with her at marriage, in addition to her dower, such as her dresses and her jewels. Hence the evident absurdity of the use of paraphernalia in the sentence cited. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
How the universal heart of man blesses flowers! They are wreathed round the cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb; all these are appropriate uses. Flowers should deck the brow of the youthful bride, for they are in themselves a lovely type of marriage; they should twine round the tomb, for their perpetually renewed beauty is a symbol of the resurrection; they should festoon the altar, for their fragrance and their beauty ascend in perpetual worship before the Most High. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]