William Shakespeare Quotes About Marriage
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For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace.
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Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.
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Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen.
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Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.
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A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
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Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
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With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.
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The curse of marriage That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites!
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A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.
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The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.
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The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.
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Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore never floutat me for what I have said against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.
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Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks and true obedience; Too little payment for so great a debt.
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My heart is ever at your service.
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This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.
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Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.
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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
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As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.
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Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, Makes me with thy strength to communicate.
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I will be master of what is mine own: She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.
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Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.
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In love the heavens themselves do guide the state; Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.
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I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.
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A young man married is a man that's marred.
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Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!
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Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.
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Nay, we must think men are not gods, Nor of them look for such observancy As fits the bridal.
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In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.
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They do not love that do not show their love.
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When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
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