| Author |
Quotes |
| Albert Chevalier | 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. |
| Bible | And the Lord God said, It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. |
| Bible | 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. |
| Bible | Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. |
| Bible | House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord. |
| Bible | For years 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. |
| Book of Common Prayer | Matrimony is not by any to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly; but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in the fear of God. |
| Book of Common Prayer | 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. |
| Book of Common Prayer | To love, cherish, and to obey. |
| Book of Common Prayer | With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow. |
| Charles Churchill | Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife. |
| Charles Churchill | My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. |
| Charles Churchill | Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring. |
| Charles Stuart Calverley | 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. |
| Charles Stuart Calverley | I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive. |
| James Beattie | 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. |
| Richard Braithwait | I'd rather die Maid, and lead apes in Hell Than wed an inmate of Silenus' Cell. |
| Robert Boyle | He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection. |
| Robert Burton | Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven. |
| Francis Bacon | He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. |
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