Tertullian Quotes

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

A young man married is a man that's marred.

Wedlock is a padlock.

Marriage is a religious and state issue.

Reader, I married him.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

I've never felt any particular desire to be married.

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

I've come to the conclusion that everybody should marry, including me.

One of the basic forms of marriage, the practice of which, historically, had far exceeded that of any other form.

I'm pretty old-fashioned. I feel most people - and this is purely from observation; I'm not an expert - but I think most people want to get married, whatever one might say about the institution of marriage, especially if you are in a long relationship.

Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.

I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open minds should be closed for repairs.

Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.

[Matrimony] is the grave of love.

A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.

Marriage is rather a silly habit.

Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate; mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds.

I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

No, I think marriage is a great thing.

I got married six weeks ago. It's just a sweet thing. I haven't got a better word for it. It's an enormous amount of sweetness.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.