Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.
From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.Yourmother will never seeyouagainif youdo not marry Mr Collins,and Iwill never seeyouagainif you do.
There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken inwhen they marry.Look where Iwill,Iseethat it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.
He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the questionwhen a manshould marry? 'Ayoung man not yet, an elder man not at all.'
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
It is better to marry than to burn.
A man who any woman might love, but who no sane woman would marry.
A Man may not marry his Grandmother.
It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
I shall marry in haste and repeat at leisure. See Congreve 231:1.
I could find it in my heart to marry thee, purely to be rid of thee.
I have no humour to marry; I love to lie o' both sides of the bed myself; and again, o'th'other side.
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.
The more women are paid, the less eager theyare to marry.
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
Poetsshould never marry.Theworld should thank mefor not marrying you.
Those who marry Godcan become domesticated tooit's just as humdrum a marriage as all the others.
Mrs Kennedy isgoing to marry Aristotle Socrates Onassis! I feel strangely freer! No shadow walks behind me down the halls of the White House.
I had often wondered why young women should marry, as they have so much more freedom, and so much more attention paid to them while unmarried, than when married.
Marry me and I'll never look at another horse.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later. For another thing, they die earlier.
Advice to persons about to marrydon't.
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
There's almost as many different sorts of marriage as there's different sorts of people. There's the young things that marry for love, not knowing what they're doing, and the old things that marry for moneyand comfort and companionship. There's the people that marry for children. There's the people that don't intend to have children and that aren't fit to have them. There's the peoplethat marry becausethey're so much run after by the other sex that they have to put a stop to it somehow. There's the people that want to trya new experience, and the people that want to have done with experiences.
The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.
I see women marry indiscriminately with staring burgesses and ferret-faced, white-eyed boys, and men dwell in contentment with noisy scullions, or taking into their lives acidulous vestals.
Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule) no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke.
To marry is to domesticate the Recording Angel.Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide, but to be good.
What theydo in heaven we are ignorant of: what theydo not we aretold expressly, that they neither marry, norare given in marriage.
But I knaw'd a Quaa« ker feller as often 'as towd ma this: 'Doa« nt thou marry for munny, but goa« wheer munny is!'
A woman with fair opportunities and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes.
Remember, it is as easy to marrya rich woman as a poor woman.
The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one ofthevital personal rights essentialtotheorderly pursuit of happiness by free men.
Chumps always make the best husbands.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.What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.
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