Cormac McCarthy Quotes

Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

Everybody should get married - once. I was 25.

We must recognize that there are healthy as well as unhealthy ways to be single or to be divorced, just as there are healthy and unhealthy ways to be married.

I never set out to get married and the way things have worked out I never have.

When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands.

Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.

Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.

He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.

A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.

If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife

Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.

Intelligent women always marry fools

Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.

I'm not one of those people who are desperate to get married.

Every unmarried man is looking for a wife. They just don't always know it.

Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this woman for the next forty years?'' That's how to pick a wife.

I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife.

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.

Men? Sure, I've known lots of them. But I never found one I liked well enough to marry. Besides, I've always been busy with my work. Marriage is a career in itself and to make a success of it you've got to keep working at it. So until I can give the.