Matrimonial Duties Quotes

HUSBAND, n. One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate.

Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.

I'd like to get married because I like the idea of a man being required by law to sleep with me every night.

The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration; wives whose existence is given over to a ceaseless vigil of cantankerous affection.

As the wedded pair have given each other power over their bodies, it would be a grave sin for one to refuse either altogether or for a considerable time the fulfilment of the marriage debt.

Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.