Love is much better when you are not married.
— Maria Callas
It was so cold I almost got married.
— Shelly Winters
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have
anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
— Lord Chesterfield
It is better to be laughed at for not being married than to be unable to
laugh because you are.
— Unknown wise person
Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them but I
wouldn't want to own one.
— W. C. Fields
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marraige.
— Dr. Karl Bowman
I recommend having no relationships except those easily borne and disposed of; I recommend
limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
— Quentin Crisp
Why, even the janitor's wif
e
Has a perfectly good love life
And here am I
Facing tomorrow
Alone with my sorrow
Down in the depths on the ninetieth floor.
— Cole Porter, Down in the Depths, (1936)
I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I have to have my own
way — to lie down mistress, and get up master.
— Susanna Moodie
When a couple decides to divorce, they should inform both
sets of parents before having a party and telling all their friends. This is not only courteous but
practical. Parents may be very willing to pitch in with comments, criticism, and malicious gossip of their
own to help the divorce along.
— P. J. O'Rourke
To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say
Is a keen observer of life,
The world 'intellectual' suggests right away
A man who's untrue to his wife.
— W. H. Auden, New Year Letter, 1941
I'd like a clause in my
marriage vows that allows me to be single one week a month.
— Unknown wise person
Marriage is not a word but a sentence.
— Unknown Wise Person
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the
inquest.
— Helen Rowland
No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse
whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
— H.L. Mencken
Marriage is like a besieged fortress. Everyone outside wants to get in, and everyone inside
wants to get out.
— Quitard
Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the
wrong sort of woman.
— Robertson Davies
You have two choices in life: You can stay single and be miserable, or, you can get married
and wish you were dead.
— Unknown Wise Person
If a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.
— Deborah Kerr
I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is
wrong with me.
— Elayne Boosler
I would be married, but I'd have no wife.
I would be married to the single life.
— Richard Crashaw (Poet in 17th Century)
I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I have to have my own way —
to lie down mistress, and get up master.
— Susanna Moodie
I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.
— Max Kauffmann
