Diana Gabaldon Quotes

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?

Wedlock is a padlock.

There was never any question about his (Enos Slaughter) courage. He proved it by getting married four times.

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.

The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

No Parties…will be allowed to live together as husband and wife until their marriage has been legally solemnized.

A young man married is a man that's marred.

Marriage is the process by which a woman deprives herself of an escort.

Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.

Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most unrequited fetter which prejudice has forged to confine its energies.

Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.

Marriage is rather a silly habit.

Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate; mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds.

It is very difficult to be taken seriously when you're introduced at a party to somebody as the fourth Mrs. Rex Harrison.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Marriage is a religious and state issue.