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  • Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.

    - Idi Amin (Dada)
      Unsolicited advice to Lord Snowdon on the ending of his marriage to Princess Margaret, quoted in  A Barrow International Gossip (1983).

  • 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.

    -Jane Austen
      Pride and Prejudice, ch.20.

  • 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.

    -Jane Austen
      Mansfield Park, ch.5.

  • 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.'

    - Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
      Essays, no.8,'Of Marriage and the Single Life'.

  • For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew 22:30.

  • It is better to marry than to burn.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Corinthians 7:9.

  • A man who any woman might love, but who no sane woman would marry.

    - Isabella married name Isabella Bishop Bird
      Of Rocky Mountain  Jim, her guide on her travels on horseback through the Rockies.  A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains.

  • A Man may not marry his Grandmother.

    -Book of Common Prayer
    Table of Kindred and  Affinity.

  • It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.

    - Anita Brookner
    A Start in Life.

  • I shall marry in haste and repeat at leisure. See Congreve 231:1.

    -James Branch Cabell
      Jurgen, ch.26.

  •    I could find it in my heart to marry thee, purely to be rid of thee.

    -William Congreve
      Belinda to Bellmore. The Old Bachelor, act 5, sc.10.

  • I have no humour to marry; I love to lie o' both sides of the bed myself; and again, o'th'other side.

    -Thomas Dekker
    The Roaring Girl (with Thomas Middleton), act 2, sc.2.

  •    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
      Count O'Halloran's advice to Lord Colambare. The Absentee, ch.15.

  • The more women are paid, the less eager theyare to marry.

    - Susan Faludi
      Backlash (UK edn), ch.2,'Man Shortages and Barren Wombs'.

  • A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.

    - Zsa Zsa Gabor
    Attributed.

  • Poetsshould never marry.Theworld should thank mefor not marrying you.

    - Maud Gonne
    Attributed. Said to W B Yeats.

  • Those who marry God†can become domesticated tooit's just as humdrum a marriage as all the others.

    - (Henry) Graham Greene
    A Burnt-Out Case, ch.1.

  • Mrs Kennedy isgoing to marry Aristotle Socrates Onassis!† I feel strangely freer! No shadow walks behind me down the halls of the White House.

    - Claudia AltaTaylor known as Lady Bird Johnson
      A White House Diary.

  • 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.

    - Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
      Remark, 25 Mar. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.

  • Marry me and I'll never look at another horse.

    - Groucho originally Julius Henry Marx Marx
      Line delivered in  A Day at the Races (screenplay by George Seaton, Robert Pirosh and George Oppenheimer).

  • Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later. For another thing, they die earlier.

    - H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken
      Chrestomathy, ch.30

  •    Advice to persons about to marrydon't.

    -Punch

  • When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

    - Helen Rowland
      Reflections of a Bachelor Girl.

  • 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.

    - George Bernard Shaw
      Bill Collins. Getting Married.

  • 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.

    - Robert Louis Stevenson
    Virginibus Puerisque,'Virginibus Puerisque', pt.1.

  • 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.

    - Robert Louis Stevenson
    Virginibus Puerisque,'Virginibus Puerisque', pt.1.

  • Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule) no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke.

    - Robert Louis Stevenson
    Virginibus Puerisque,'Virginibus Puerisque', pt.1.

  • 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.

    - Robert Louis Stevenson
    Virginibus Puerisque,'Virginibus Puerisque', pt.2.

  • What theydo in heaven we are ignorant of: what theydo not we aretold expressly, that they neither marry, norare given in marriage.

    -Jonathan Swift
    Thoughts onVarious Subjects.

  • 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!'

    -Tennyson
      'Northern Farmer. New Style', stanza 5.

  • A woman with fair opportunities and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes.

    -William Makepeace Thackeray
    ^8  Rebecca Sharp.Vanity Fair, ch.4.

  • Remember, it is as easy to marrya rich woman as a poor woman.

    -William Makepeace Thackeray
    ^50  Pendennis, ch.28.

  • The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one ofthevital personal rights essentialtotheorderly pursuit of happiness by free men.

    - Earl Warren
      2 Jun. Unanimous ruling against aVirginian law forbidding intermarriage of blacks and whites.

  • 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.

    -Plum
      TheAdventures of Sally, ch.10.

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