Matrimony is an honorable estate.

I never knew but one way to a Woman's Heart, and that road I have not yet travelled; for my Uncle, who is a wise Man, says Matrimony is a sort of akind of aas it were, d'ye see, of a Voyage, which every Man of Fortune is bound to make one time or other: and MadamI am, as it werea bold Adventurer.

She, with all her intelligence, did not seem to realise that matrimony is not an affair of rules and regulations, of aphorisms and epigrams, nor that the lines on which husband and wife shall conduct themselves to a happy ending can be settled by a study of vulgar fractions.

ACCORDING TO WHICH MATRIMONY IS GENERALLY CONTRACTED IN THE WORLD.

Of course, the Parisienne did not hesitate an instant about becoming the wife of un avocat; for, agreeably to her habits, matrimony was a legitimate means of bettering her condition in life.

"Had I been brought up in a decent family," he said, "instead of having been set afloat on a tombstone, matrimony wouldn't have been such unknown seas to me.

Matrimony is the deuce.

" Matrimony is the root of all evil.

The congratulations showered upon them, and the rejoicings which attend them on their wedding days, only serve to add melancholy to the Undomestic Daughter, who has already begun to solace herself for her failure to attract men by the reflection that matrimony itself is a failure, and that there are higher and worthier things in life than the wearing of orange-blossoms, and going-away dresses.

But, like everything else into which he entered, for him matrimony also was a success.

Matrimony is a state over which the Church has always asserted special jurisdiction.

I am your Friend, and wish your Happiness, but am sorry to see by the Air of your Letter that there are a Set of Women who are got into the Common-Place Raillery of every Thing that is sober, decent, and proper: Matrimony and the Clergy are the Topicks of People of little Wit and no Understanding.

"You see, old chap," mused Deppingham, after their departure, "matrimony is no trifling thing, after all.

My girls shall come to you in that age when they think matrimony is the only chance of happiness, and you shall teach them felicity dwells not so much in outward circumstances as in the temper of the mind.

But these tales revived and died so often, in a state of society in which matrimony is so general a topic with the young of the gentler sex, that they brought with them their own refutation.

Matrimony is its heaven, an' a slippery place it is.