Marry quotes
Armour J. Ogden
The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.
Bacon Francis 1561-1626
Essays ‘Of Marriage and the Single Life'
He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? ‘A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'
Bailey David
Women love scallywags, but some marry them and then try to make them wear a blazer.
Balzac Honoré De 1799-1850
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
Bennett Jill 1931-1990
Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.
Butler Samuel 1835-1902
Letters between Samuel Butler and Miss E.M. Savage
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four.
Chekhov Anton 1860-1904
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
Chekhov Anton 1860-1904
A man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves.
Cher 1946-
The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing - and then they marry him!
Churchill Sir Winston 1874-1965
My Darling Clementine
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Davies Robertson 1913-1995
As a general thing, people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age when they
do not really know their own kind is.
Degas Edgar 1834-1917
Art is vice.You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
Disraeli Benjamin 1804-1881
Lothair
Every woman should marry - and no man.
Henry O. 1862-1910
Memoirs of a Yellow Dog
If men knew how women pass the time when theyare alone,they'd never marry.
Herrick Robert 1591-1674
‘To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'
Then be not coy, but use your time;
And while ye may, go marry:
For having lost but once your prime,
You may for ever tarry.
Johnson Samuel 1709-1784
I would advise no man to marry, who is not likely to propagate understanding.
King Henry 1592-1669
‘An Exequy'
My last Good night! Thou will not wake
Till I thy fate shall overtake:
Till age, or grief, or sickness must
Marry my body to that dust
It so much loves.
Lambert Constant 1905-1951
(written in a copy of Coeleb's In Search of a Wife)
If ever I marry a wife,
I'll marry a landlord's daughter,
For then I may sit in the bar,
And drink cold brandy and water.
Longfellow Henry Wadsworth 1807-1882
‘Michael Angelo'
The men that women marry,
And why they marry them, will always be
A marvel and a mystery to the world.
Martineau Harriet 1802-1876
Society in America
Anyone must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
Mencken H.L. 1880-1956
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later. For another thing, they die earlier.
Mitford Nancy 1904-1973
Love in a Cold Climate
„Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry" is an aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like Indian widow.
Olivier Sir Laurence 1907-1989
In Rebecca
„I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool."
Plath Sylvia 1932-1963
‘The Applicant'
A living doll, everywhere you look.
It can sew, it can cook,
It can talk, talk, talk.
It works, there is nothing wrong with it.
You have a hole, it's a poultice.
You have an eye, it's an image.
My boy, it's your last resort.
Will you marry it, marry it, marry it.
Plomin Professor Robert
(on how to have gifted children)
Marry an intelligent person.
Punch 1841-1992
Advice to persons about to marry-'Don't.'
Rowland Helen 1875-1950
Reflections of a Bachelor Girl
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how much they must hate to work for a living.
Steinem Gloria 1934-
We are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
‘Northern Farmer. New Style'
‘Doänt thou marry for munny, but goä wheer munny is!'
Thackeray William Makepeace 1811-1863
Pendennis
Remember, it is as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
Thackeray William Makepeace 1811-1863
Vanity Fair
A woman with fair opportunities and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes.
Wodehouse P.G. 1881-1975
The Adventures of Sally
When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his forehead first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate.
All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.