Lynda Barry Quotes

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

Don't get married until you're certain that you're marrying the right girl. How did I know my wife was the one? I'd seen her for a couple of months. I liked her. She was a very creative person and she had a very good grip on politics and business.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

I never thought I would get married. I didn't think I was that type of person.

I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

It's funny that until I actually met my husband, I never thought I'd get married.

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

You have to be with the right person. It's so much more important to meet the right person, whether you're married or not, than it is to get married and get a divorce.

People don't get married to get divorced. Maybe people weren't meant to be together forever.

The most important thing - and I've said it a hundred times and I'll say it a hundred times - if you marry a man, marry the right one.

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.

I don't really want to get married to get married pretend.

I would like to get married, but it must be a man who is part of my work, or me part of his.

I've never really thought I'd get married. It's not that I'm suspicious of it or anything like that, it's just that I don't have a reference for it because my mum wasn't.

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

I'm 29 years old and, sure, I'm looking to find a wife.

I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.

I was very young when we got married and I don't know why it worked out like it did or how I was smart enough to know that this was the right guy, but somehow I got lucky.

You've got to want to be married to the person you're married to.