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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune;
for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue
or mischief.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Essays--Of Marriage and Single Life
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No jealousy their dawn of love o'ercast,
Nor blasted were their wedded days with strife;
Each season looked delightful as it past,
To the fond husband and the faithful wife.
Author: James Beattie
Source: The Minstrel (bk. I, st. 14)
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And the Lord God said, It is not good that man should be alone; I
will make him an help meet for him.
Author: Bible
Source: Genesis (ch. II, v. 18)
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And Adam said, This is the bone of my bones, and flesh of my
flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of
Man.
Author: Bible
Source: Genesis (ch. II, v. 23)
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Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore
God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Author: Bible
Source: Matthew (ch. XIX, v. 6)
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House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent
wife is from the Lord.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XIX, v. 14)
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For years [my wedding ring] has done its job. It has led me not
into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at
parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of
relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the
maternity ward.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XIX, v. 14)
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(Matrimony) is not by any to be entered into unadvisedly or
lightly; but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in
the fear of God.
Author: Book of Common Prayer
Source: Solemnization of Matrimony
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To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse,
for richer, for poorer, in sickness, and in health, to love and
to cherish, till death us do part.
Author: Book of Common Prayer
Source: Solemnization of Matrimony
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To love, cherish, and to obey.
Author: Book of Common Prayer
Source: Solemnization of Matrimony
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With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with
all my worldly goods I thee endow.
Author: Book of Common Prayer
Source: Solemnization of Matrimony
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He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the
celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.
Author: Robert Boyle
Source: Works (vol. VI, p. 292, Letter for Mr. Evelyn)
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I'd rather die Maid, and lead apes in Hell
Than wed an inmate of Silenus' Cell.
Author: Richard Braithwait (Braithwaite) ("Corymbaeus")
Source: English Gentlemen and Gentelwoman, in a supplemental tract, "The Turtle's Triumph"
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Cursed be the man, the poorest wretch in life,
The crouching vassal, to the tyrant wife,
Who has no will but by her high permission;
Who has not sixpence but in her possession;
Who must to her his dear friend's secret tell;
Who dreads a curtain lecture worse than hell.
Were such the wife had fallen to my part,
I'd break her spirit or I'd break her heart.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: The Henpecked Husband
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Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. II, mem. 5, subs. 5)
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'Cause grace and virtue are within
Prohibited degrees of kin;
And therefore no true saint allows,
They shall be suffer'd to espouse.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 1,293)
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For talk six times with the same single lady,
And you may get the wedding dress ready.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto XII, st. 59)
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There was no great disparity of years,
Though much in temper; but they never clash'd,
They moved like stars united in their spheres,
Or like the Rhone by Leman's waters wash'd,
Where mingled and yet separate appears
The river from the lake, all bluely dash'd
Through the serene and placid glassy deep,
Which fain would lull its river-child to sleep.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto XIV, st. 87)
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A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she
should marry.
[Sp., Una muger no tiene.
Valor para el consejo, y la conviene Casarse.]
Author: Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Source: El Purgatorio de Sans Patricio (III, 4)
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To sit, happy married lovers; Phillis trifling with a plover's
Egg, while Corydon uncovers with a grace the Sally Lunn,
Or dissects the luck pheasant--that, I think, were passing
pleasant
As I sit along at present, dreaming darkly of a dun.
Author: Charles Stuart Calverley
Source: In the Gloaming, (parody on Mrs. Browning)
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I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That
is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.
Author: Charles Stuart Calverley
Source: In the Gloaming, (parody on Mrs. Browning)
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We've been together now for forty years,
An' it don't seem a day too much;
There ain't a lady livin' in the land
As I'd swop for my dear old Dutch.
Author: Albert Chevalier
Source: My Old Dutch
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Man and wife,
Coupled together for the sake of strife.
Author: Charles Churchill
Source: The Rosciad (l. 1,005)
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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to
persuade my wife to marry me.
Author: Charles Churchill
Source: The Rosciad (l. 1,005)
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Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.
Author: Charles Churchill
Source: The Rosciad (l. 1,005)
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