Getting Married Quotes - Page 5

• Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Marriage, Wedding, Order

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• Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.

  Thomas More

  Marriage, Wedding, Hands

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• I should think that people would be more interested in politics and all that is happening, rather than two lovebirds who are looking to wed. I think it's very nice that in an age when love is so scarce that people are willing to gamble on getting married.

  Yoko Ono

  Nice, Gay, Love Is

  "Yoko Ono takes gay marriage fight to clubs". www.today.com. July 9, 2004.

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• All I have to do is pose for a picture and I'm getting married to the person standing next to me.

  Steven Spielberg

  Next, Married, Standing

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• Getting married and really digging in with another human being can point out your greatest strengths and your greatest weaknesses.

  Mat Kearney

  Weakness, Digging, Married

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England.

  Jill Dando

  Autumn, Incentives, England

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• I never really thought about getting married - it just kind of happened. It seemed natural, the right thing to do. It was kind of a celebration of the time.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Married, Celebration, Kind

  "Scarlett Johansson's in Love! (but not with this guy)". Interview with Amy Larocca, www.glamour.com. September 28, 2009.

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• We need to reflect with great seriousness about why many young people don't feel like getting married... For fear of failure, many do not want to even think about it... Many people believe the change that has taken place in recent decades was set in motion by the emancipation of women. But this argument is not valid, it is an insult, a form of misogyny.

  Pope Francis

  Believe, Taken, Thinking

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• Your taxes are due a week from today. You can make out your check directly to Halliburton. Or you can do what I'm going to do. I'm filing my first joint return. No, I'm not getting married, I'm sending the IRS an actual joint with a note that says, 'If you think I'm paying for this war, you must be high.'

  Bill Maher

  War, Thinking, Irs

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• Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space.

  Chris Hadfield

  Home, Space, Flying

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• When you're not in love, when you don't have love, everybody you know falls in love.

  Dane Cook

  Falling In Love, People, Bags

  "Dane Cook: A Stand-Up Comic on the Rise". "Day to Day" with Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. December 1, 2005.

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• I have a lot of friends who are getting married. I try to avoid talking to them about their sex lives now 'cause it's so depressing. One guy told me it had been six months since he had gotten to second base with his wife. Yeah, I don't know which one was more pathetic: that he used the phrase 'second base' or that he hadn't been there in six months?

  Ted Alexandro

  Depressing, Sex, Talking

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• Getting married and staying married is a wonderful way to increase your wealth - but the key is stay married.

  Kyra Zagorsky

  Keys, Way, Married

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• Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Romance, Letters, Married

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• I used to think a wedding was a simple affair. Boy and girl meet, they fall in love, he buys a ring, she buys a dress, they say I do. I was wrong. That's getting married. A wedding is an entirely different proposition.

  Steve Martin

  Girl, Wedding, Falling In Love

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• A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I've got to pay for that being an income tax payer.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Girl, School, Oxford

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• The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is that marriage is a maze into which we wander - a maze that is best got through with a great companion.

  Robert Fulghum

  Friends, Marriage, Love Is

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.149, Ivy Books

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• I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don't want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option. It isn't.

  Carl Paladino

  Children, Successful, Thinking

  "Anti-Gay Hate Crimes Stir National Fury". "Tell Me More" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. October 12, 2010.

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• The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).

  Gloria Steinem

  Marriage, Husband, Feminism

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.331, Open Road Media

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• One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.

  Eleanor Porter

  Mother, Husband, Tired

  Eleanor H. Porter (2008). “Mary Marie (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.38, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Trying, Engagement, Married

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• Anthony Bridgerton leaned back in his leather chair,and then announced, "I'm thinking about getting married." Benedict Bridgerton, who had been indulging in a habit his mother detested—tipping his chair drunkenly on the back two legs—fell over. Colin Bridgerton started to choke. Luckily for Colin, Benedict regained his seat with enough time to smack him soundly on the back, sending a green olive sailing across the table. It narrowly missed Anthony's ear.

  Julia Quinn

  Mother, Thinking, Two

  Julia Quinn (2015). “The Viscount Who Loved Me With 2nd Epilogue”, p.14, HarperCollins

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• You never know what your parents are going to say when you tell them you're getting married - especially when it's with someone they haven't met yet!

  Chad Kroeger

  Parent, Married, Mets

  "Chad Kroeger: My Parents Didn’t Meet Avril Lavigne Pre-Engagement" by Zach Johnson, www.usmagazine.com. September 3, 2012.

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• I'm terrified to get married. I'm not getting married till my gay friends can.

  Denise Mina

  Gay, Married, Terrified

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• I'm considering getting married again. I've not lost faith in that institution. I'm older; I'm smarter. I'm no longer searching for something to complete me... and therefore I'm now able to find someone to be a partner with.

  Teri Polo

  Able, Married, Lost

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