Famous quotes containing the words wedlock and/or stand:
“They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)