Top Wedlock Quotes

It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the weaker vessel; weaker than man, that is. ... That was the w...

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Wedlock Definition

(v. i.) The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony.

(v. i.) A wife; a married woman.

(v. t.) To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed.

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory,...

You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person.

Men marry. Women wed.