Moliere
Playwright, Actor
"Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives."
Matrimony quotes
Matrimony
29 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Writer
"There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones."
Aaron Hill
Playwright
"O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor."
Ovid
Poet
"If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal."
Ovid
Poet
"She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above."
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"Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag."
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"As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself."
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