“Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.”
Source: The Saint's Tragedy; Or the True Story of Elizabeth of Hungary, Landgravine of Thuringia: Saint of the Romish Calendar. With a Preface by Professor Maurice
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Source: Mosses from an Old Manse
Source: Works of Cowper and Thomson
“Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]
Source: British Theatre: Caractacus
“You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.”
Source: Poems
“Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.”
Source: Songs and Ballads ... Fourth edition
“One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.”
“Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer: Several Versions
“Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of John Lilly: Mydas. Mother Bombie. The woman in the moone. Love's metamorphosis. Notes
Source: Dramatic Works: The renegado. The picture. The fatal dowry. The emperor of the East. The maid of honour
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man
“Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.”
Source: Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins
“Two consorts in heaven are not two, but one angel.”
Source: Heaven and Hell: Also the World of Spirits Or Intermediate State from Things Heard and Seen by Emanuel Swedenborg
Source: Love's sacrifice. Perkin Warbeck. The fancies chaste and noble
“O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.”
Source: Muses in mourning. Zara, to which is added, an interlude, never before printed. Snake in the grass. Alzira. Saul. Daraxes. Merope. Roman revenge. Insolvent. Some love letters, by the author
Source: Works
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)
Source: The Masquerade: And Other Poems
Source: The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt
Source: Moll Flanders
“Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.”
Source: A Hero of Our Time
“Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.”
Source: Elizabethan Drama II
Source: Around Old Chester
Source: Ex-wife
“If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.”
Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: The Uncommercial Traveller
Source: The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos
“[Exchange] the galling burden of bachelorship for the easy yoke of matrimony.”
Source: 1816-1828
Source: The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson ...: Selected from the Original Manuscripts, Bequeathed by Him to His Family, to which are Prefixed, a Biographical Account of that Author, and Observations on His Writings