- The married lyfe is the only lyfe"
- Petite Pallace: George Pettie, 1576.
- To the church the parties went, At once with carnal and devout intent.
- January and May: Alexander Pope, 1711.
- Let all thy joys be as the month of May
And all thy days be as marriage Day
Let sorrow, sickness and a troubled mind
Be stranger to thee.
- To a Bride: Francis Quarles, 1635.
- Let nothing break our bond but Death
For in the world above
'Tis the breaker Death that soldereth
Our ring of Wedded Love.
- On a Wedding Day: Gerald Massey, 1857.
- The sum which two married people
owe each to one another defies
calculation. It is an infinite debt,
which can only be discharged
through all eternity.
- Elective Affinities: Johann Van Goethe,1808.
- Marriage is popular because it combines the
- Man and Superman: G B. Shaw, 1903.
- It is not good that man should live alone;
I will make him a help mate.
- Old Testament.
- Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on earth.
Mother Bombie: John Lyly, 1590.
- Marriage appointed by fate 'twixt man and woman
Is mightier than an oath, and Justice is its guardian.
- Aeschylus: Eumenides, 458 B.C.
- My Lord Denbigh is going to marry a fortune, I forget her name:
my Lord Gower ask him how long the honey-moon would last?
He replied, Don't tell me of the honey-moon;
it is the harvest moon with me."
- from a letter by Horace Walpole, 1756.
- Look, how my ring encompasseth thy finger,
Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart;
Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.
- Richard the Second: William Shakespeare, 1593.
- As your wedding ring wears, You'll wear off your cares.
- Gnomologia No. 6146: Thomas Fuller, 1642.
- Rich and rare were the gems she wore,
And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.
Rich and Rare Were The Gems She Wore,
- Irish Melodies: Thomas Moore, 1807 to 1835.
- Blest is the bride, on whom the Sun doth shine.
A Nuptiall Song: Robert Herrick, 1648.
- There is something about a wedding gown prettier
than any other gown in the world.
- Douglas Jerrold's Wit: A Wedding Gown; Douglas Jerrold, 1859.
- I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface,
but such qualities as would wear well.
- The Vicar of Wakefield: Oliver Goldsmith, 1766.
- Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
- The Prophet, on Marriage: Kahlil Gibran, 1923.
- His designs were honourable, as the phrase is,
that is to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
- Tom Jones: Fielding, 1749.
- A woman of sixty, like a girl of six,
runs at the sound of wedding music.
- Babylonian Talmud: Jebamoth, 450 B.C.
- I do not pretend to have discovered that life has anything more
to be desired than a prudent and virtuous marriage . . .
- Life of Johnson: James Boswell, 1791.
- The ideal marriage is not one in which two people marry to be happy,
but to make each other happy.
- Roy L. Smith, 1886.
- An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble
than a summons to a police court.
- William Feather, Date Unknown.
- Nothing is greater or better than this;
that a man and wife dwell together n accord.
- Odyssey: Homer, 850 B.C.
- Marriage has no enemies that can survive a happy night.
- Ancient Chinese Proverb: Date Unknown.
- A happy bridesmaid makes a happy bride.
- The Bridesmaid: Alfred Tennyson, 1836.
- Bridesmaids may soon be brides; one wedding brings on another.
- Salt-cellars: C. H. Spurgeon, 1919.
- Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.
I sing of maypoles, hock-harts, wassails, wakes,
Of Bridegrooms, Brides, and of their bridal cakes.
- Hesperides: Robert Herrick, 1648.
- Love begets love.
- Hesperides: Robert Herrick, 1648.
- There's nothing like the devotion of a married woman.
It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
- Lady Windermere's Fan: Oscar Wilde, 1892.
- The first month of marriage, when there is nothing
but tenderness and pleasure.
- Samuel Johnson: Dictionary, 1755.
- A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
- The Spectator: Joseph Addison, 1771.
- For I'm not so old, and I'm not so plain,
And I'm quite prepared to marry again.
- Johanne: W. S. Gilbert, 1882.
- Perfect love casts out prudery together with fear.
- De Flagello Myrteo: Fichard Garnett, 1905.
- A man's best possession is a loving wife.
- Anatomy of Melancholy: Robert Burton, 1641.
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