Not Good Enough To Marry Quotes

#1. When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a 'good man' before they are all taken.

Sheryl Sandberg

#2. What good are vitamins? Eat a lobster, eat a pound of caviar - live! If you are in love with a beautiful blonde with an empty face and no brains at all, don't be afraid. Marry her! Live!

Arthur Rubinstein

#3. The only way to get a good crew is to marry one.

Eric Hiscock

#4. Montanans believe in the right to make a good life for their families. How they define a family should be their business and their business alone. I'm proud to support marriage equality because no one should be able to tell a Montanan or any American who they can love and who they can marry.

Jon Tester

#5. Hush, hush! Good People! and good night!" said Gandalf, who came last. "Valleys have ears, and some elves have over marry tongues. Good night!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#6. Twenty pounds of tomatoes will cook down into a pot of tomato sauce that fits into five one-quart freezer boxes, good for one family meal each. (Be warned, the fragrance of your kitchen will cause innocent bystanders to want to marry you.)

Barbara Kingsolver

#7. Are you seeing anyone romantically?" he inquired.
"No, I'm not," she replied.
"Good. Please keep it that way. Because I intend to ask you to marry me.

Mitch Albom

#8. If there is a good fortune on one side, there can be no occasion for any on the other. No matter which has it, so that there is enough. I hate the idea of one great fortune looking out for another. And to marry for money I think the wickedest thing in existence.

Jane Austen

#9. It's a good thing you're an aging orphan," he murmured, gently pushing the hair away from her face. "I don't have to wait around to get anyone's permission."
"Permission for what, you rat bastard?" she said.
"Such language, dragon. I'm afraid you're going to have to marry me.

Anne Stuart

#10. Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did.

Martin Andersen Nexo

#11. Love alone is never a good enough reason to marry.

Harriet Lerner

#12. By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

#13. I think that commercials can really ruin a song. You know that the person sold the song for a good deal of money, and that was the tradeoff. But, music and picture can marry in a beautiful way, and the reverse also.

David Lynch

#14. You marry the one who will be a good father, not a good lay.

Tom Cardamone

#15. Yes, of course I want to get married, but does that mean I'm not allowed to go out and have a good time? Am I supposed to just marry any schmuck that comes along? And by the way, here's a newsflash, Hammertoes. Nobody wants to marry me, anyway.

Chelsea Handler

#16. Well, it's not like the good guys are lining up to date a cop, and I'm certainly not attracted to the type of useless asshole who'd want to marry a female police officer.

Karin Slaughter

#17. Everyone ought to wish to marry; some ought to be allowed to marry; and others ought to marry twice - to make the average good.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#18. If I had a girl I should say to her, 'Marry for love if you can, it won't last, but it is a very interesting experience and makes a good beginning in life. Later on, when you marry for money, for heaven's sake let it be big money. There are no other possible reasons for marrying at all.

Nancy Mitford

#19. I have been a widower for nigh fifty years, but I am never alone. We had eight good years together, and they've lasted me the entire eighty. It's like that, you see, when you can marry where your heart lies.

Grace Burrowes

#20. Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher

Socrates

#21. I'm gonna be good at something other than marrying, darlings. Besides, I don't want them. I don't even wanna screw them, how am I gonna marry them?

Catherynne M Valente

#22. I want a man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama

William J. Clinton

#23. I want to kiss her and make love to her and marry her and make her have my babies and I want it all to happen tonight . But then we'll be out of firsts, and the firsts are the best part. Good thing I'm patient.

Colleen Hoover

#24. Her idea of a romantic setting is one that has a diamond in it. If you feel the need to marry a doctor, I suggest a dermatologist. Good hours, free Retin-A.

Rita Rudner

#25. My wife called me a mule. She once said, "I didn't marry a man; I married a mule!" I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.

Tom Waits

#26. Well," she said carefully. "Someday I'd like to get married and have a family, but
"
"She does," Tasha informed her uncle. "She's pretty and she makes good sandwiches. You should ask
her to marry you.

Suzanne Brockmann

#27. And when you get married, the most important thing isn't being in love. It's making sure you marry your best friend. A partner - the person you want to share the good times, the shitty times, and everything in between with.

Emma Chase

#28. I expected a good deal more from you," Marcelline said, "You bungled it."
"Yes," he said. "What else could I do? I was asking the wrong woman to marry me.

Loretta Chase

#29. I thought it was love, but it wasn't. It was a need to be the right girl for him. I just couldn't understand why I wasn't good enough, or how he could marry her.

Kate Stewart

#30. The 'good-enough marriage' is definitely not good enough for today's singles. We're not content to marry someone who happens to live down the street and gets along okay with our parents.

Aziz Ansari

#31. I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world.

Mary Todd Lincoln

#32. Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got to dye your hair cobalt blue, or wander remote islands in Sicily, or cook your way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year, for no very good reason.

Julie Powell

#33. Music becomes very personal. When you marry a message you want to send out into the world with good music, all of a sudden you have a very potent way of delivering your message.

Conor Oberst

#34. You marry your friends when you stay with your friends. It's hard enough to find a good roommate, let alone a good person you can live with and fall in love with at the same time. You might as well just take your roommate, if you can find one, and marry them.

Ariel Pink

#35. I ever marry, it has to be for good. If I get a divorce I lose access to the money. It all goes back to the family." "What?

Leta Blake

#36. Me, sir! What has it to do with me? You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel? Good morning, Mr. Worthing!

Oscar Wilde

#37. You should marry me", he said. "I will be good to you. I am not like these men. I have manners. You would see how kind I would be. I would never leave you. You could have an easy life.

Larry McMurtry

#38. I want to marry you, Jenna. And marriage means a partnership. A partnership means we take the good and the bad.

Jaci Burton

#39. My second wife - I was still young then - she left me, and I made the mistake of winning her back. It took me years to lose her again after that. She was a good woman. It is not easy to lose a good woman. If one must marry it is better to marry a bad woman.

Graham Greene

#40. Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.

Harpo Marx

#41. Don't marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to keep you happy. No rich man can buy that!

Staness Jonekos

#42. One should marry when one stops having a good time and settle down.

Apurva Sharma

#43. There are two things for a marriage to be good. One is to work hard on it. The other one is to marry above you. And I succeeded at both of those.

Ben Affleck

#44. Marry someone who flatters you. Because I've written 80 books since 'War Horse' but when my wife reads one, all she says is, 'It's quite good, but it's not as good as 'War Horse,' is it?'

Michael Morpurgo

#45. And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good
good
considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again.

Abraham Lincoln

#46. Oh, good grief! I've never had a man pick me up before and not grunt like he's dying. I'm in heaven. Marry me, Ash, please! (Pam)
I would say yes, but I come with more baggage than even Samsonite can cover. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#47. Marriage is a civil right. If you don't want gay people to marry in your church, good for you. But you can't say they can't marry in your city.

Julian Bond

#48. As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don't know which. She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-informed, but it would cost a good deal to keep her in diamonds.

Richard H. Davis

#49. I've done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you're never gonna marry a bad boy.

Ariana Grande

#50. The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.

J. Ogden Armour

#51. Never agree to marry a man because he has potential. Men are not houses, they do not make good fixer-uppers.

Jill Shalvis

#52. Emma repeated to herself, "Good Heavens! Why did I marry?

Gustave Flaubert

#53. Seoafin,
Tonight, you marry The Drakkar. In the ancient tongue, this means The Dragon.
Good luck,
Sjofn

Kristen Ashley

#54. But a good servant, and I am an excellent one, can completely control his master, tell him what to think, how to act, whom to marry, when to divorce, reduce him to terror as a discipline, or distribute happiness to him, and finally be mentioned in his will.

John Steinbeck

#55. To be a good Briton, a man must trade profitably, marry respectably, live cleanly, avoid excess, revere the established order, and wear his heart in his breeches pocket or anywhere but on his sleeve.

William Ernest Henley

#56. We had been given flowers, good food, and a soft bed, all in exchange for declaring our love. I thought we might go from town to town and marry in each one.

William Klaber

#57. If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Thomas Fuller

#58. One of Beethoven's favorite dishes was macaroni and cheese. The girl I marry must be able to make good macaroni and cheese ... "
"How did Beethoven feel about cold cereal?

Charles M. Schulz

#59. Masooma." "Could you?" "I could try," Parwana says. "Good. Then marry Saboor. Look after his

Khaled Hosseini

#60. Pop, why didn't you ever marry again?"
"I was a good husband to your mother," Pop said. "I would not be a good husband to another woman. It would not be fair, because I gave everything I had to my first marriage. Love is like that for some people.

Susan Wiggs

#61. I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

Gary Numan

#62. A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.

Wolfgang Puck

#63. Because I am your favourite grandson, and you love me more than all of my brothers."
"Nyet. You are the most frustrating of my grandsons. Find a good woman, marry her, have children - then you will be my favourite."
"Perhaps I shall settle for second favourite. What would that take?

Karen Hawkins

#64. By the time we were in high school the only difference was that we were talking about how J.D. didn't know that tongue in a girl's ear wasn't a good thing instead of which one of us was going to marry the lead singer of Fall Out Boy one day.

Amy Garvey

#65. Would you marry you? Be the right person before seeking the right person. Solomon's bride is carefully chosen for the good of his family, for the good of his kingdom.
pg 9

Michael Ben Zehabe

#66. Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.

P.G. Wodehouse

#67. I tweeted once, and I still stick to this, that I would love to marry a Croatian girl. I want my children to speak Croatian first, and for them to do that, we need someone who speaks very good Croatian.

Nathaniel Buzolic

#68. What a feat, she thinks, to want to marry every woman he fucks. He is so good at being in love that Ernest Hemingway makes a rotten husband.

Naomi Wood

#69. It's always good to marry your best friend.

Marie Curie

#70. I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.

Sheena Easton

#71. Make up to a good one and marry here, and your life will become much more interesting.

Henry James

#72. But a good man wouldn't marry you for fortune, and perhaps you shouldn't choose such as one as that."
"Shouldn't I?"
"A good man would marry you for love." he says simply.

Philippa Gregory

#73. I tried to talk my daughter out of going with a hockey player but, he's a good kid. He asked me if he could marry Carrie before he asked her. I said: You want to what? I thought he was just going to ask for more ice time.

Phil Esposito

#74. I'm not going to marry you."
"I'm not asking you to."
"Good."
He eyed me. "And you can wipe that horrified look off your face because it's obviously not true.

Michelle Rowen

#75. I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now they've got some good Mediterranean blood in them.

Alexandra Wentworth

#76. Have you asked the question yet? I'm rather good at it, if I do say to myself. I got three different ladies to agree to marry me while you were gone. Did you know? Some didn't actually make it to the alter, but that's another problem altogether. Perhaps you'd like some pointers on-

Elizabeth Hoyt

#77. I love being with yo so bad
When we aren't together, I miss you so bad
One of these days I'm going to marry you so bad
and it'll be
so
so
good.

Colleen Hoover

#78. After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life

Chuck Palahniuk

#79. The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse
people would marry for good.

Ruby Dee

#80. Nothing good is easy."
"Not true," Ludy said. "Sleep. TV. Jell-O Instant Pudding."
"I don't want to go out with Jell-O Instant Pudding," Georgie said.
"I would marry Jell-O Instant Pudding.

Rainbow Rowell

#81. Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.

Richard Ford

#82. He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?

William Wycherley

#83. I don't need to marry someone for good sex; I can pay for that.

Tali Alexander

#84. When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand - she's as good as any other; they be all alike in groundwork: 'tis only in the flourishes there's a difference.

Thomas Hardy

#85. Some women pray for their daughters to marry good husbands. I pray that my girls will find girlfriends half as loyal and true as the Ya-Yas.

Rebecca Wells

#86. I want the sea to tell them I've found someone I want to marry and that I have to say good-bye -

Simon Van Booy

#87. The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness:
'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it.

John Green

#88. Marriage is supposed to be a partnership. Good-looking people marry good-looking people and the others take what's left.

Alan Bennett

#89. People should be allowed to marry, and gay marriage should be out there. If a man or a woman has a good partner and they love each other with their heart and soul, let them marry. I am very much for gay marriage.

Pierce Brosnan

#90. If a man doesn't ask you to marry him
or at least live with him
after two years, he never will. It means he's only interested in having a good time.

Candace Bushnell

#91. My mom gave me a good piece of advice. She said never marry a man thinking you can change him, and I think that starts from your first date when you're in the seventh grade onwards. Women are fixers so we have to just not fix. Don't fix.

Jennifer Garner

#92. -Nothing good is easy
-Not true! Sleep, TV, Jell-O Instant Pudding
-I don't want to go out with Jell-O
-I would MARRY Jell-O

Rainbow Rowell

#93. I can go to school later if I want to. But don't marry someone you don't love, darling. You're too good for that." Daddy

Melissa Jagears

#94. Honor, obey?" Gisbourne shouted, grappling with John. "This is what you call being a good wife?"
I stopped. "I never said I'd be a good wife, Guy. Just that I'd marry you.

A.C. Gaughen

#95. There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But somehow people manage. If your man is using money as an excuse not to marry you, it's your relationship that's insecure, not his bank account.

Greg Behrendt

#96. All means marry. If you get a good wife, you will become happy. If you get a bad one, you will become a philosopher.

Preeti Shenoy

#97. Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.

Faith Hill

#98. Learn to love and broke man to marry a good man.

Amen Muffler

#99. Utah is changing. There are good people in Utah. More people want to change the discriminatory laws than want to keep them. People should be able to marry whomever they love.

Robert Redford

#100. Learn how to love a broke man to marry a good man.

Amen Muffler