Marriage License Quotes

#1. It would be preposterously naive to suggest that a B.A. can be made as attractive to girls as a marriage license.

Grayson L. Kirk

#2. I don't know if it was the excitement that did it, but by the time we started our tiptoe across the icy, rutted skid yard to that shed Priya had quit shivering, but I was trembling like a marriage license in a young man's hand.

Elizabeth Bear

#3. Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."

Ernest Hemingway,

#4. Pam Anderson and Rick Salomon just got themselves a marriage license. I think before she gets married again Pam needs to slow down and think about whether this is really the man she wants to spend three or four months of her life with.

Chelsea Handler

#5. My marriage license reads, 'To whom it may concern,'

Mickey Rooney

#6. One does not marry to become a judge of the spouse's behavior. If a marriage license is mistaken for a hunting license and disapproval, punishment, and threat of withdrawal of love are employed as weapons, all one bags is one's own unhappiness.

Jo Coudert

#7. I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.

Will Rogers

#8. Even when all the paperwork-a marriage license, a notarized deed, two birth certificates, and seven years of tax returns-clearly indicates you're an adult, but all the same, there you are, clutching the phone and thanking God that you're still somebody's daughter.

Kelly Corrigan

#9. A Miami judge issued Florida's first gay marriage license yesterday, which makes it the 36th state to legally perform gay marriages. Of course, most Florida residents are too old to understand what that means. They'll say, 'Well, I think all marriages should be gay, and merry.'

Jimmy Fallon

#10. Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.

Dennis Miller

#11. Why do you think you deserve happily ever after? You were offered it before and tossed it away.

Donna Lynn Hope

#12. One was born a certain sort of person, and though by ceasless struggle one might become as nice as that sort of person ever is, one could never become as nice as a nicer sort of person.

Elizabeth Goudge

#13. A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

Ernest Gellner

#14. Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.

Robert A. Heinlein

#15. People do not have a constitutional right to be married any more than we could say that someone has a constitutional right to a driver's license. You either meet the requirements or you don't. In the case of marriage, homosexuals do not meet the requirements of marriage.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#16. What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.

Edward Villella

#17. Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death.

Jennifer Dunn

#18. Laurel: I don't need a ring or a license, or a spetacular white dress. It's not marriage so much, or at all really, that matters. It's the promise. It's the knowing someone wants me to be part of his life. Someone loves me, that I'm the one for him. That's not just enough, it's everything.

Nora Roberts

#19. Work hard. I got tenure a year early. Junior faculty members used to say to me: 'Wow, what's your secret?' I said: 'It's pretty simple. Call me any Friday night in my office at 10 o'clock, and I'll tell you.'

Randy Pausch

#20. The next morning he drove the stranger's car half way to the Registry of Motor Vehicles before he realized he could not apply for a driver's license. He suddenly realized he had left his name at the prison.

Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker

#21. Marriage is the only game where the trapped animal has to buy the license.

Dan Poynter

#22. How much does the iron in your blood and the calcium in your bones remember of the heart of the star in which they were born? And if they can forget that terrible, magnificent heat and light, what hope do I have of being more than an unremarkable footnote to you?

Seanan McGuire

#23. The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.

Carl Jung

#24. It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.

Jess C. Scott

#25. Make a habit of inviting demons over?" "Yeah, actually. Wednesdays are movie nights. They bring the snacks.

Pippa DaCosta

#26. Pride is never so loud as when in chains.

Lew Wallace