Wedlock

Famous quotes containing the word wedlock:

“For what is wedlock forcèd, but a hell,
An age of discord and continual strife?
Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,
And is a pattern of celestial peace.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

“As the ox hath his bow, sir, the horse his curb, and the
falcon her bells, so man hath his desires; and as pigeons
bill, so wedlock would be nibbling.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)