Marrying Up Sayings

#1. There's a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they'll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn't someone. And it wasn't something better.

Richard Paul Evans

#2. People always kept moving, her mother had said, it's the American way. Moving west, moving south, marrying up, marrying down, getting divorced - but moving...

Elizabeth Strout

#3. I'm not the marrying type! But if I did get married, I definitely wouldn't be a bridezilla.

Erin Richards

#4. If you turn up with a tattoo on your face, telling me you've shagged a lady boy, I'm definitely not marrying you.

Samantha Towle

#5. I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz,' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.

Hugh Jackman

#6. Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. If you're not ready to consider marriage or you're not truly interested in marrying a specific person, it's selfish and potentially harmful to encourage that person to need you or ask him or her to gratify you emotionally or physically.

Joshua Harris

#8. Besides, who would think of marrying a mothball? A question my mother put to me often, later, in other forms.

Margaret Atwood

#9. I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.

Noel Coward

#10. There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.

Boyle Roche

#11. If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.

Sparky Anderson

#12. The gospel is the story of God covering his naked enemies, bringing them to the wedding feast, and then marrying them rather than crushing them.

Edward T. Welch

#13. It's not like that. If all i wanted was a whore, i could've taken my pick from the bimbos at school. Whether you like it or not, Dad, i'm in love with Miracle and i have every intention of marrying her if she'll have me.

M. Leighton

#14. 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

#15. Whats nice about my dating life is that I dont have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: Im marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.

Julia Roberts

#16. Cullan was already inside her room, walking toward her. The sliding door was reduced to shards.

"I asked you nicely." Cullan said in a loud voice. "Why won't you even-"

"Is swearing nice to you?"

"You riled me up!"

"You kissed another woman!

Nicholaa Spencer

#17. The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.

Pat Robertson

#18. In almost every place where we find totems we also find a law against persons of the same totem having sexual relations with one another and consequently against their marrying. This, then, is 'exogamy', an institution related to totemism.

Sigmund Freud

#19. And English society was was not exactly welcoming to these rich newcomers: Imagine Kim Kardashian marrying Prince Henry today and you get the general idea of the suspicion and disdain that the Americans encountered.

Daisy Goodwin

#20. Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

Abraham Lincoln

#21. No sugarcoating would be necessary," Matthew interrupted calmly. "Daisy ... that is, Miss Bowman, is entirely - " Beautiful. Desirable. Bewitching. " - acceptable. Marrying a woman like Miss Bowman would be a reward in itself.

Lisa Kleypas

#22. I only wish he had not married," said Mr. Norell fretfully. "Magicians have no business marrying.

Susanna Clarke

#23. The big publishers want someone they can send on the Jewish book circuit, somebody the old ladies can see marrying their granddaughters.

Joshua Cohen

#24. I finally got up around noon, after having decided that, as far as monogamous relationships go, I could probably do worse than marrying my bed.

Robyn Schneider

#25. The clever are marrying the clever and manically educating their children, making it ever harder for the poor to catch up.

Anonymous

#26. Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

Morton Hunt

#27. Mitch says he was destined to meet me. He says I could go back and do my whole life over, and I'd still end up marrying him.

Rainbow Rowell

#28. Because every relationship will end up one of two ways: you'll end up breaking up, or you end up
marrying the person. And I don't like wasting my time.

Mariana Zapata

#29. I choose to work with every single person that I work with. That ends up being the most important factor. I don't interact with people I don't like or admire. That's the key. It's like marrying.

Warren Buffett

#30. Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often?

Malcolm Turnbull

#31. It's going to take generations of gay people marrying before these things start to feel natural. We haven't had it long enough to remake it as our own, so it does feel like you're getting dressed up in straight drag to do it.

Dan Savage

#32. So - people a thousand years from now ... This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying.

Thornton Wilder

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

Dodie Smith

#34. Marrying Gretchen is a good idea, darling; I would enjoy bringing her up. Teaching her to shoot, helping her with her first baby, coaching her in how to handle a knife, working out with her in martial arts, all the homey domestic skills a girl needs in this modern world.

Robert A. Heinlein

#35. Tell me again why some woman hasn't scooped you up?"
"I'm not the marrying kind."
"It's a pity.

Kristin Miller

#36. In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a shrew.]

Horace

#37. Do you think it's possible to finally decide that you really, truly love someone but not end up marrying him?

Robin Jones Gunn

#38. People always tease me. They say, look at you, you went for so much psychoanalysis and you're so neurotic, you wind up marrying a girl so much younger than you.

Woody Allen

#39. 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

#40. My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.

Penn Jillette

#41. By never marrying, I ended up never divorcing, but I also failed to accumulate that brocade of civility and padlock of security - kids you do or don't want, Tiffany silver you never use - that makes life complete.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#42. I don't know why some people get worked up about gay people marrying. It's not gay people who are ruining the sanctity of marriage, it's celebrities.

Craig Ferguson

#43. I sometimes end up in dangerous situations, and I come back to you broken and messed up, and you worry about me when I'm gone. It's like marrying a policeman.

Audrey Niffenegger

#44. My time in heaven was up, and I was being told I wasn't the marrying kind by someone who undresses for a living.

Chelsea Handler

#45. 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

#46. I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

Marilyn Monroe

#47. You saw this as a travesty because, by marrying Mara, I was taking an important icon from you. But this is about starting a new life, not ending an old one.

Michael A. Stackpole

#48. I'm terribly sorry, Fergal."
"What for? Marrying him? I should think you would be, Angel.

Trisha Ashley

#49. Gender data is important. If girls don't have a birth certificate, how do we know how many are marrying as children?

Kathy Calvin

#50. With tears running down her face, Cecily had reminded him of the moment at her wedding to Gabriel when he had delivered a beautiful speech praising the groom, at the end of which he had announced, Dear God, I thought she was marrying Gideon. I take it all back.

Cassandra Clare

#51. Marrying the right girl is the single most important ingredient for a happy life, he'd also said.

Pamela Morsi

#52. Today I realize that I'm not marrying the one I thought loved me, I'm just Morgan Lewis, the owner of a bakery, a tiny apartment in downtown Atlanta, and a 2012 Camry. Nothing special, just another person walking through town to start her day.

A.M. Willard

#53. The senator was the kind of man who, having expended all his empathetic capital on marrying someone surprising, wanted to make sure no other people had the ability to make their own choices for themselves. He was anti-immigration, antiwoman, antigay, and that was just for starters. To

Lauren Groff

#54. I'm not married," he said softly, "because I can't stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul.

Sarah J. Maas

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

E.W. Howe

#56. People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.

Celia Green

#57. You won't hear a character's friend say this in a romantic comedy. Taylor Swift won't sing this, Eminem won't rap it, and Suzanne Collins won't write it, but it's true: just because you're "in love" with someone doesn't mean you should seriously consider marrying them.

Gary L. Thomas

#58. You would be better off having nobody than the wrong somebody. (On marrying for the wrong reasons.)

Joyce Meyer

#59. Ned: I figured it was time for a picnic by the menagerie.
Jenny: And you brought me? Why not take the woman you're marrying?
Ned: She's grown up with the Duke of Ware. Lions seem less ferocious.

Courtney Milan

#60. You're going out with Garrett Graham." "Mmm-hmmm." "I call shenanigans." Of course she does. A date with Garrett Graham? I might as well have announced I'm marrying Chris Hemsworth.

Elle Kennedy

#61. I began to rationalize marrying Will[iam Houston Price]. 'He comes from a good family. A girl could do worse.' (As it turned out, I couldn't, but I didn't know that yet

Maureen O'Hara

#62. Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.

Franz Kafka

#63. 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

#64. I am marrying the finest man I have ever known." "It will cost you dear," he warns. "It would be worse to lose him.

Philippa Gregory

#65. I understand some of the people's impatience with the show last year. I think that Lisa's (Lili Taylor) story line (marrying Nate with minimal motivation in season three) became a little bit of a diversion - and that happens. It happens in every show.

Chris Albrecht

#66. Today's my wedding day, Mom," he said softly aloud. "I'm marrying the woman I always told you I would someday.

Christine Feehan

#67. Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling
for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with a factory. This is the way world ends, not with a whim but a banker.

Marian McPartland

#68. I've never had any summer lovin'. And I've never had any school year lovin', either. I've never had a boyfriend. I've never hooked up with a guy. And this morning, on my Internet browser, an article popped up about women marrying themselves. Even my wireless connection knows I'm alone.

Flynn Meaney

#69. You are ignorant of the duties you undertake in marrying ...

Emily Bronte

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

Lisa Kleypas

#71. She ended up marrying Oceanus, which was kind of a no-brainer. Hey, you like water? I like water too! We should totally go out!

Rick Riordan

#72. Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.

Simon Gray

#73. Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.

Colin Meloy

#74. Some girls think marrying an expat is the road to riches, but that's not true." Sumi

Angela Nicoara

#75. Yeah, we're back to the whole brother-marrying-sister thing. Let's get it out of our systems - all together, One, two, three: GROSS!

Rick Riordan

#76. My dear Mr. Bennet," replied his wife, "how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.

Jane Austen

#77. I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

J. Paul Getty

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#79. Our task is not to fight old battles, but to show that there is a third way, a way of marrying together an open competitive society and successful economy with a just and decent society.

Tony Blair

#80. Building and marrying of Children are great wasters.

George Herbert

#81. Don't date anyone you can't see yourself marrying.

Turcois Ominek

#82. Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.

Gabrielle Zevin

#83. Marrying into a different culture means you are not trapped by your own, which is how I felt." Wang

Angela Nicoara

#84. My life has really been about writing, though some think it's all about once having been in a ball dress and having an odd life and marrying all the time. But it's the writing that's always been the point.

Emma Tennant

#85. NEH13.27 Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?

Anonymous

#86. Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.

John Lydon

#87. Some fairy tales end with the girl marrying the prince ... some start there.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#88. They're making me out to be a serial marrying person or something. I'm laughing at that.

Jennifer Lopez