#trim

My first [wife] was an angel; My second a silly woman; My third a Roman Senator; My fourth a pretty little thing; My fifth — all woman! ↗

— Nat C. Goodwin

#matrimony #wives #marriage

Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding-ring! ↗

— Colley Cibber

#matrimony #wedding-ring #marriage

Marriage is one sweet way in which one can taste heaven on earth. Similarly, I can also become hell on earth. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#happy #heaven #hell #hot #marriage

--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man... ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#ethereal #matrimony #men #nerves #prude

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. ↗

— Jane Austen

#argument #being #dreadful #favor #matrimony

Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize. ↗

— John Stuart Blackie

#keeping #labour #plot #power #prize

In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don't need to have direct communication. You can say, 'I can't describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.' ↗

— James Blunt

#because #cheating #communication #describe #detrimental

There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation. ↗

— Laurent Fabius

#constitution #detriment #does #europe #innovation

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony. ↗

— George Farquhar

#both #fall #into #lead #matrimony

I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code. This is the ultimate solution, not to just say we're going to trim around the edges, not to say that we will try to simplify a little of this and a little of that. The problem is, replace the tax code, so we can establish tax fairness for everybody. ↗

— Herman Cain

#code #edges #establish #everybody #fair