Marriage

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

I … chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

Man’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.

These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into a wife.

Yblessed be god that I have wedded fyve! Welcome the sixte, whan that evere he shal.

Housbondes at chirche dore she hadde fyve.

Reader, I married him.

He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? ‘A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.’

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Marrying left your maiden name disused.

It is a true error to marry with poets or to be by them.

For I’m not so old, and not so plain, And I’m quite prepared to marry again.

As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman, Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him, yet she follows, Useless each without the other!

The Wedding Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon.

The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she.

The guests are met, the feast is set: May’st hear the merry din.

Under an oak, in stormy weather, I joined this rogue and whore together; And none but he who rules the thunder Can put this rogue and whore asunder.

Lord of yourself, uncumber’d with a wife.

Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring.

A young man married is a man that’s marr’d.

Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o’ Sunday.