Mary Heaton Vorse Quotes

Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.

That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.

There were many years when I didn't even know if I wanted to get married. I don't know if I believe in that institution, really.

Every day I grapple between 'I'm going to get married' and 'I'm going to spend the rest of my life alone with a poodle.'

I talk about everything - politics, the economy; the news will give you more material than you can ever use. But relationships? That's the ongoing battle. You talk about men and women, and across-the-board everyone can relate to that.

I don't know if I'll ever get married. I have no plans to not get married.

It is very important to have deep friendships of the opposite sex to learn so much about yourself and what you need as a human.

Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

When men give lines, women learn to not trust men. When women wear makeup, men learn to not trust women. Male lines and female makeup are divorce training.

A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy to the transparent devices by which she snared him.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.

If you know each other well, you want to do business with people you know well. You don't do business with strangers.

Because of being married, I've met people and experienced all these little things that have nurtured my life - not so much changed it, just nurtured it in a way that's astounding.

It's more like you meet someone, and you fall in love, and you hope that that person is the one - and then at some point, you have to put down your chips. You just have to make a commitment and hope that you're right.

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.

Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.

Relations between the sexes are so complicated that the only way you can tell if members of the set are going together is if they are married. Then, almost certainly, they are not.

sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies!