Marry come up my dirty cousin! [ Proverb ]
Advise none to marry or go to war. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Marry in haste, and repent at leisure,
It is good to marry late or never. [ Proverb ]
Honest men marry soon, wise men never. [ Scotch ]
Marry a widow before she leaves mourning. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
I will oblige my daughters to marry for love. [ Madame De Stael ]
If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife. [ Michelet ]
It is time to marry when the woman courts the man. [ Proverb ]
Men marry to make an end; women, to make a beginning. [ A. Dupuy ]
Two heads are better than one, or why do folks marry? [ Proverb ]
Never marry a widow, unless her first man was hanged. [ Proverb ]
Marry your daughters betimes lest they marry themselves. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
You need not marry; you have troubles enough without it. [ Proverb ]
Neither marry nor buy an old beast; the reason is plain. [ Proverb ]
Marry your son when you will; your daughter when you can. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Between promising and performing, a man may marry his daughter. [ Proverb ]
It is harder to marry a daughter well, than to bring her up well. [ Proverb ]
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely. [ William Penn ]
Girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
One should always be in love: that is the reason one should never marry. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel - she should marry. [ Calderon ]
It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination. [ Dr. Johnson ]
It is always imprudent to marry a woman for love in whose bosom you inspire none. [ Mme. d'Arconville ]
To marry is solemnly to submit one's liberty to law, and one's welfare to caprice.
If thy daughter marry well, thou hast found a son; if not, thou hast lost a daughter. [ Quarles ]
Women deceived by men want to marry them: it is a kind of revenge as good as any other. [ Beaumanoir ]
'Tis my maxim, he's a fool that marries; but he's a greater that does not marry a fool. [ Wycherly ]
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before it was neither rhyme nor reason. [ Sir Thos. More ]
If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year. [ Raleigh ]
They that marry ancient people merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter. [ Fuller ]
They that marry ancient people merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hopes that some one will come and cut the halter. [ Thomas Fuller ]
At the age of sixty, to marry a beautiful girl of sixteen, is to imitate those ignorant people who buy books to be read by their friends. [ A. Ricard ]
I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position. [ Plutarch ]
If much reason is necessary to remain in celibacy, still more is required to marry. One must then have reason for two; and often all the reason of the two does not make one reasonable being. [ Balzac ]
Give him gold enough, and marry him to a puppet, or an aglet-baby; or an old trot with never a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two and fifty horses; why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. [ William Shakespeare ]
If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
First, girls, don't smoke--that is, don't smoke to excess. I am seventy-three and a half years old, and have been smoking seventy-three of them. But I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time. Second, don't drink - that is, don't drink to excess. Third, don't marry - I mean, to excess. [ Mark Twain, "Advice To Girls", 1909 ]