Her pulse beats matrimony. [ Proverb ]

Marriages are made in heaven. [ Tennyson ]

Marriage is a desperate thing. [ John Selden ]

He that takes a wife takes care. [ Franklin ]

Marriage is the nursery of heaven! [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. [ William Shakespeare ]

Hasty marriage seldom proveth well. [ William Shakespeare ]

As the husband is, the wife is:
Thou art mated with a clown,
And the grossness of his nature
Will have weight to drag thee down. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

A light wife doth make a heavy husband [ William Shakespeare ]

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy. [ Aaron Hill ]

An obedient wife commands her husband. [ Tennyson ]

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss
Of paradise that has survived the fall. [ Cowper ]

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine;
Thou art an elm, my husband, I, a vine. [ William Shakespeare ]

Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle,
The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh. [ Charles Kingsley ]

Married in haste, we repent at leisure. [ Congreve ]

Of earthly goods the best, is a good wife. [ Simonides ]

Marriages are best of dissimilar material. [ Theodore Parker ]

Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning. [ Miss Mulock ]

A young man married is a man that's marred. [ William Shakespeare ]

The bloom or blight of all men's happiness. [ Byron ]

It is not good that the man should be alone. [ Bible ]

It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year. [ Tennyson ]

There swims no goose so gray, but soon or late
She finds some honest gander for her mate. [ Pope ]

The world well tried, the sweetest thing in life
Is the unclouded welcome of a wife. [ Willis ]

If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife. [ Michelet ]

Two consorts in heaven are not two, but one angel. [ Swedenborg ]

Humble wedlock is far better than proud virginity. [ St. Augustine ]

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. [ William Shakespeare ]

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie. [ William Shakespeare ]

Hearts with equal love combined kindle never-dying fires. [ Carew ]

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones. [ Rochefoucauld ]

No man can either live piously or die righteous without a wife. [ Richter ]

Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring. [ Colley Cibber ]

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage. [ Bacon ]

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source of human offspring! [ Milton ]

What, therefore, God hath joined together let not man put asunder. [ Bible ]

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely. [ William Penn ]

When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. [ Colton ]

Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. [ William Shakespeare ]

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise. [ Goethe ]

Strong are the instincts with which God has guarded the sacredness of marriage. [ Maria M'Intosh ]

Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife; go up when thou choosest a friend. [ Rabbi Ben Azai ]

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well. [ Goldsmith ]

If you would have the nuptial union last, Let virtue be the bond that ties it fast. [ Rowe ]

It is in vain for a man to be born fortunate, if he be unfortunate in his marriage. [ Dacier ]

The instances, that second marriage move, are base respects of thrift, but none of love. [ William Shakespeare ]

Should all despair that have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind would hang themselves. [ William Shakespeare ]

Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them. [ Wilkie Collins ]

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. [ William Penn ]

Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony. [ Abba Goold Woolson ]

Courtship is a fine bowling-green turf, all galloping round and sweethearting, a sunshine holiday in summer time; but when once through matrimony's turnpike, the weather becomes wintry, and some husbands are seized with a cold, aguish fit, to which the faculty give the name of indifference. [ G. A. Stevens ]