Famous quotes containing the words wedlock and/or stand:
“They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“The irresponsive silence of the land,
The irresponsive sounding of the sea,
Speak both one message of one sense to me:—
‘Aloof, aloof, we stand aloof,”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)