Evan Esar Quotes

I'm a married man and I've got two children, and you have to do sacrifices.

When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.

I was never a girl who dreamed about what her wedding day would be like, but I've always dreamed about decorating my baby's nursery.

Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.

I love weddings: happy people coming together to celebrate in great clothes.

I hated the royal wedding.

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

I'm looking forward to it. I'd like to be married.

Falling in love was the easy part; planning a wedding - yikes!

Growing up, I was never the kind of girl to dream about wedding dresses and pretty houses.

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

I wanna stay an eternal girlfriend. I want to have my boyfriend's children, but I don't think we need a piece of paper to regulate the game, and we don't have to go through the whole stress of a wedding and suffering to throw a good party.

Appallingly, I hadn't thought about it one jot. I never daydreamed as a little girl of getting married and having children. I was as surprised to discover I was getting married as I was to discover I was up the duff.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

The reason we privilege marriage and tie benefits to it is to protect and encourage the institution into which new life comes. That's why we have benefits because traditional marriage creates children and that is where they have the most opportunity to grow up to be healthy, happy children. To extend the same benefits to relationships that do not create children surely dismantles the very reasons for those benefits.

I am in love and it will be a White House Wedding.

I have never imagined that I would get married and that I would become a father.

Being a husband and a dad are the two most important things in my life.

In 1960, I married Laurose Becker. We have two children: Elizabeth, born in 1961, and Matthew, born in 1963.

I'm young but I can't wait to marry and have kids.

I'm trying to be the best dad ever. And being a husband is a whole other business itself.

Being a good husband and father... that's the most important thing I'm going to do on this earth.

I love weddings.

I see marriage as a new beginning in my life.