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Famous Never Marry Quotes

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. — Danish Proverbs

Never marry for money. You can borrow it cheaper. — Scottish Proverbs

A young man should not marry yet, an old man not at all — Greek Proverbs

Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage. — Joey Ramone

Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it - Socrates

Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it — Socrates

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake. — Elbert Hubbard

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. - Oscar Wilde

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. — Oscar Wilde

Don’t marry a girl who is worldly! If you do, you have carried what you’ll worship for the rest of your life. — Enoch Adeboye

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you. - Jill Bennett

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you. — Jill Bennett

Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you. — Jill Bennett

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. — James Dobson

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. — James C. Dobson

A woman must marry the man who loves her but never the one she loves; that is the secret of lasting happiness. — Mariama Bâ

Sometimes divorce is better than marriage — Sumner Redstone

One should never know too precisely whom one has married — Friedrich Nietzsche

Short Never Marry Quotes

  • Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near. — Helen Rowland
  • Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever. — Nora Ephron
  • No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. — Honore de Balzac
  • Don’t marry without love, but don’t love without reason. — American Proverbs
  • Live together a year before getting married. — Moroccan Proverbs
  • Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. — Benjamin Franklin
  • Look at the mother before marrying the daughter. — Turkish Proverbs
  • Love is so much better when you're not married. — Maria Callas
  • Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight. — Phyllis Diller
  • Never make a companion equal to a brother. — Hesiod

Top 10 Never Marry Quotes

I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married. — Lewis Grizzard

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. — Albert Einstein

If you’re a church person and not a Jesus person, my heart hurts for you. It’s like being engaged and never getting married. It’s miserable. — Matt Chandler

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married. — Lewis Grizzard

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all. — Lord Byron

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

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never. — Jack Benny

I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort. — J. M. W. Turner

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer. — Edward W. Howe

Why haven't I got a husband and children?" mused Greta Garbo to the Dutchess of Windsor, "I never met a man I could marry. — Greta Garbo

Never Marry Image Quotes

Never marry quote For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

I Will Never Marry Quotes

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do. — Jane Austen

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 Nexø

The day I will never forget is the day I married my wife, Tashera. Tashera is so special to my boys and me. Her energy is enough to put anyone on a cloud. Her dedication and care gives me comfort and ease. — DMX

Never marry quote Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.

Marry me," he said. "Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Gray, or be whatever you wish to call yourself, but marry me and stay with me and never leave me, for I cannot bear another day of my life to go by that does not have you in it. — Cassandra Clare

I know I will never have an affair with a married man again. — Monica Lewinsky

As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden. — H. M. Tomlinson

Never marry quote Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.

I will never get married to the head of General Motors. I will never be the wife of a superstar. For those women, their lives are somebody else's. I will never be a Mrs. Blabidyblah! — Stephanie Zimbalist

I would never date or marry an actress. I will marry the girl of my mom's choice. — Suresh Raina

Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore never floutat me for what I have said against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion. — William Shakespeare

I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another. — Barbara Mertz

Never Marry A Man Quotes

Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel is ideology. Ideology is a man-made format of how the world ought to work, and Christians instead believed in the revealing truth Scripture. — Charles Colson

I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. — Jimmy Swaggart

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

Never marry quote Never regret anything that made you smile.
Never regret anything that made you smile.

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

I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation. — Michael Ondaatje

My dear sisters in humanity: Your beauty-both internal and external-is priceless. Only the man who marries you has a right to see it. Never forget, if he doesn't want to marry you, he doesn't deserve you. — Yasmin Mogahed

Never marry quote The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay. — Franz Kafka

I've been married three times, but I'll never forget my first trip as a young man, on my honeymoon, with my new wife. — Joe Pesci

When I was younger I thought I'd meet the man of my dreams, get married and have a child, but it all went higgledy-piggledy. Never say never, though. — Anna Friel

Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late' — Oscar Wilde

Do Not Marry Quotes

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. — Nikola Tesla

Do you think it's possible to finally decide that you really, truly love someone but not end up marrying him? — Robin Jones Gunn

People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is. — James Framo

Never marry quote You're a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do, will never forget about
You're a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do, will never forget about you.

People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship. — Gary Chapman

Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not produce unwanted children; their reward is to be denied the right to marry. Go figure. — Richard Posner

The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans. — P. W. Botha

Never marry quote Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change
Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change.

Those who do not work should not eat. If they do not eat, then they cannot marry. — Enoch Adeboye

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives. — Richard Bach

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters. — Susan B. Anthony

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not. — Dinah Shore

I Don't Want To Marry Quotes

I don't want to study, I want to get married! — Russian Proverbs

As a married person myself, I don't know what it's like to be told I can't marry somebody I love, and want to marry, I can't imagine how that must feel. I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people that we want to love. — Carrie Underwood

Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic. I really wanted to be in love, get married, have kids and buy a wood-paneled station wagon for the family. But it didn't work out, and, boy, it wrecked it! — Jamie Foxx

Never marry quote Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Sometimes I worry I don't want to get married as much as I'd like to be dipped in a vat of warm, rising bread dough. — Maria Bamford

I don't care who anybody sleeps with. If a couple has been together all that time - and there are gay relationships that are more solid than some heterosexual ones - I think it's fine if they want to get married. I don't know how people can get so anti-something. — Betty White

Never marry quote Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.

To me, same-sex marriage is like the new normal. I don't give a sh*t. If two gay people want to get married it doesn't bother me. If two people say they love each other and they want to be together, they should be together. Don't you think? — NeNe Leakes

I think everyone should be with who they love. I don't want to be controversial or stir up a bunch of trouble but people are going to love who they are going to love. I think gay couples should be allowed to marry. They should suffer just like us heterosexuals. Ha ha ha! — Dolly Parton

I'm twenty-nine, yes really, I'm from Aspen, Colorado, I'm six feet one, yes really, I've been at Quantico two years, yes I date guys, no I dress like this just because I like it, no I'm not married, no I don't currently have a boyfriend, and no I don't want to have dinner with you tonight. — Lee Child

When you're a woman in your thirties, and maybe you don't really know what you want to do with your life, but it seems like everyone else does, and your best friend gets married, and it forces you to look at yourself. I don't know if I described that in a very funny way. — Kristen Wiig

Marry Me Quotes

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year. — Bette Davis

As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me." — Jon Bon Jovi

I've just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married. — Barack Obama

Never marry quote Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. — Albert Einstein

I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!. — Alan Jay Lerner

Will you marry me? Do you have any money? Answer the second question first. - Groucho Marx

Will you marry me? Do you have any money? Answer the second question first. — Groucho Marx

Never marry quote Two things you will never have to chase: true friends and true love.
Two things you will never have to chase: true friends and true love.

In the past I had to deal with issues that hit me as a younger man. As a man who wasn't married who didn't really have the experience that I have now. Today I'm a different guy. — Nas

I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!' — Emo Philips

Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation. — Margaret Mitchell

If I have to change my religious beliefs, I would not marry the person that I love because the first person that I love is God, who created me. And I have my faith and my principles and this is what makes me who I am. And if that person loves me, he should love my God too. — Shamcey Supsup

Marrying Someone Quotes

It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe. — Roger Williams

What goes around, comes around. — Willie Nelson

If it is right to be legally married, it is right to be legally divorced ... To be deprived of a Divorce is like being shut up in prison because someone attempted to kill you. It is just as honorable to get out of matrimonial trouble legally, as to be freed from any other wrong. — Mary Edwards Walker

Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife. - Shelley Winters

Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife. — Shelley Winters

Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason? — Simon Sinek

I believe in the institution loyalty and love, to stay with someone in good and hard times. I don't think a piece of paper or anything else can force you to do that. For many people get marry is super important, for me, the important thing is finding someone. — Enrique Iglesias

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else. — Will Rogers

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. — Ezra Pound

You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater. — Stockard Channing

The best feeling in the world is knowing that you actually mean something to someone. — Will Smith

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More Never Marry Quotes

I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don't believe in it, and I never have. I've never changed. I've never changed my hair. I've never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I've always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep — Nina Simone

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. — Marie Corelli

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies. — Jimmy Carter

The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but "the true saint" goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment. — Abu-Sa'id Abul-Khayr

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. — Iris Murdoch

If you want to be free to serve Jesus, there’s no question—stay single. Marriage takes a lot of time. But if you want to become more like Jesus, I can’t imagine any better thing to do than to get married. Being married forces you to face some character issues you’d never have to face otherwise. — Gary L. Thomas

I left home as soon as I could, when I was 18. I thought I was in love and got married - the press called it Prince Charming and Cinderella. He was a Hilton so I was the poor little Cinderella. And when I got a divorce nine months later I never told the court why, but he was cruel. — Elizabeth Taylor

Getting rid of a man without hurting his masculinity is a problem. "Get out" and "I never want to see you again" might sound like a challenge. If you want to get rid of a man, I suggest saying, "I love you. . . . I want to marry you. . . . I want to have your children." Sometimes they leave skid marks. — John Wayne

Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence. — Anthony De Mello

I've never met an ugly millionaire. They all look cute. No wonder I married 4 of them — Zsa Zsa Gabor

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership. — Ann Landers

She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one. — Daniel Defoe

Never marry a beautiful woman. A beautiful woman will leave you. An ugly woman will leave you, too, but so what? — Rick Majerus

If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead. — Anne Bancroft

He shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. — Emily Bronte

Love alone is never a good enough reason to marry. — Harriet Lerner

I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one. — Gertrude Stein

Well, my career choice made a difference because I never would have met my wife, Jenny. I met her through comedian Buddy Hackett. He set us up on a blind date and then we got married. — Bob Newhart

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. — Scottish Proverbs

It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear. — Lori Loughlin

A really good detective never gets married. — Raymond Chandler

You never know anyone until you marry them. — Eleanor Roosevelt

My life is really quite conservative. I've been married nearly 50 years. I don't have hobbies or children. I don't much care to travel. I've never had a big social life. I really just stay home, except when I go to work. — Christopher Walken

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