Sayings about Marriage:

They who marry give hostages to the public that they will not attempt the ruin or disturb the peace of it.
Francis Atterbury
We’ll try the gods again; for, wise men say,
Marriage and obsequies do not suit one day.
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Art thou married? O thou horribly virtuous woman!
Colley Cibber
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
Charles Caleb Colton
Marriage, indeed, may qualify the fury of his passion; but it very rarely mends a man’s manners.
William Congreve
I would be married, but I’d have no wife;
I would be married to a single life.
Richard Crashaw
Their courtship was carried on in poetry. Alas! many an enamoured pair have courted in poetry, and after marriage lived in prose.
John Foster
Ah me! when shall I marry me?
Lovers are plenty but fail to relieve me.
Oliver Goldsmith
Matrimony hath something in it of nature, something of civility, something of divinity.
Bishop Joseph Hall
Though matrimony may have some pains, celibacy has few pleasures.
Dr. Samuel Johnson
Marriage is the best state for man in general; and every man is a worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the married state.
Dr. Samuel Johnson
The solitariness of man … God hath namely and principally ordered to prevent by marriage.
John Milton
Our Maker bids increase;
Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source
Of human offspring.
John Milton
Marriage is a human society, and … all human society must proceed from the mind rather than the body.
John Milton
She that weds well will wisely match her love,
Nor be below her husband nor above.
Ovid
Remember, if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Of all the actions of a man’s life his marriage doth least concern other people; yet of all actions of our life it is most meddled with by other people.
John Selden
Come, is the bride ready to go to church?
William Shakespeare
My gentle lady,
I wish you all the joy that you can wish.
William Shakespeare
Quiet days, fair issue, and long life.
William Shakespeare
Here, afore heaven,
I ratify this my rich gift——
Do not smile at me that I boast her off,
For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise,
And make it halt behind her.
William Shakespeare
Give me your hands:
Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart
That doth not wish you joy!
William Shakespeare
As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honourable than the bare brow of a bachelor.
William Shakespeare
In marriage if you possess anything very good, it makes you eager to get everything else good of the same sort.
Richard B. Sheridan
Many little esteem of their own lives, yet, for remorse of their wives and children, would be withheld.
Edmund Spenser
I have had joy given me as preposterously and as impertinently as they give it to men who marry where they do not love.
Sir John Suckling
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
Jonathan Swift
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