Marrying A Man Quotes

#1. Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.

Jean Kerr

#2. My own husband was divorced when we met, but without kids. I don't know what I would have done if he'd had them. I got the message very early on that the worst mistake a woman can make is marrying a man with children.

Ayelet Waldman

#3. You are a lucky lady to be marrying a man who can fix things. Most husbands just break things.

Alexander McCall Smith

#4. My dear Alicia, of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a man of his age! Just old enough to be formal, ungovernable, and to have the gout; too old to be agreeable, too young to die.

Jane Austen

#5. In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother; and yet a prudent man, when he begins to think of the daughter, would look sharp at the mother; ay, and back to the grandmother too, and along the whole female line of ancestry.

Maria Edgeworth

#6. And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother's prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it.

Anne Heche

#7. Are you kidding me? How can you even ask me that? I'm stuck in a world I have no hope of surviving, I'm forced to depend on a guy who thinks I can't be trusted, I'm being pushed into marrying a man who believes I can't talk, and I've lost everyone I've ever cared about! Why wouldn't I feel uneasy?

Cheryl Koevoet

#8. As you turn into a daddy, soon now, you'll find that, on marrying, a man and woman start actually living.

Ernest Vincent Wright

#9. By virtue of marrying a man she does not love for money. That's the lowest kind of whore.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#10. What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?
as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

George Bernard Shaw

#11. Marrying a divorced man is ecologically responsible; in a world where there are more women than men, it pays to recycle.

Rita Rudner

#12. Marrying any man is risky. Marrying a famous man is kissing catastrophe.

John Colton

#13. I'd seen a great many partial eclipses, but a partial eclipse has the same relation to a total eclipse as flirting with a man does to marrying him. It's completely different.

Annie Dillard

#14. I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in order to not go mad, not assume I made a suicidal and well-informed error in marrying this man.

Suzanne Finnamore

#15. It takes chracter to refuse a man you love more dearly than life merely because marrying him would be the wrong thing to do.

Mary Balogh

#16. Grandma Mary would say, "That's why so many young women are marrying so many older men, because there aren't any more being raised. She would rather be an older man's sweetheart than a young man's fool and slave.

Lyanta' J. Tomlin

#17. And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.

Dodie Smith

#18. Many a man who falls in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Evan Esar

#19. To sustain love, a man and a woman must continually be marrying and divorcing, moving with, against, away from, and beyond each other, saying 'yes' and 'no'.

Sam Keen

#20. Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler

Margaret Mitchell

#21. President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?

Tony Campolo

#22. I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.

Hedy Lamarr

#23. Did this fat little priest mean to take her as a wife? She was horrified at the thought of marrying of man whose only skill with a blade was cutting slivers of gorgonzola.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#24. You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?"
"No, indeed!"
"You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged."
"My dear fellow! I congrat-"
"To Milverton's housemaid."
"My dear Holmes!"
"I wanted information, Watson.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#25. It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

Helen Rowland

#26. Nikah is a contract that transfers responsibilities. Therefore know the man you're thinking of marrying, and be sure that he is able to take care of you, more than your dad did. Islam empowers women with honor and dignity. Don't settle for anything less.

Nouman Ali Khan

#27. A man seldom thinks of marrying when he meets his ideal woman; he waits until he gets the marrying fever and then idealizes the first woman he happens to meet.

Helen Rowland

#28. Marriage is not just about marrying the right person and loving each other...
It's also about having a man that got your back no matter what.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#29. I'm not the marrying kind -"
St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.

Lisa Kleypas

#30. There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.

E.W. Howe

#31. To see a man's true colours, tell him that you don't plan on having sex with him. To see a woman's true colours, tell her that you don't plan on marrying her.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana