Marriage Choice Quotes

Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband

I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off.

This will be the most important decision of your life, the individual whom you marry.

Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.

He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.

No widow shall be compelled to marry ... while she chooses to live without a husband.

There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.

Mormon girls and women have as sensible ideas upon marriage as any people in the civilized world. They are thoroughly taught and instructed to consider well before accepting this sacred rite, and to choose wisely. More particularly are they cautioned in this regard, because, the covenants they make are not only for time, but reach into eternity. It is an important matter to make choice of a companion for this life, but how much more so does it become when the union is an eternal one.

If you want to get married to a man, then get married to a man. If two women want to get married, they should get married. It's not hurting me.

It is not the men who choose the maids, but the maids themselves who take the husbands they like, and when they like.

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

I was a wedding planner's assistant for years. And I knew I did not want to have a traditional wedding because I had worked a million of them. So my husband and I got married at a sleepaway camp in the Berkshires.

I'm for gay elopement, not for gay weddings. I've been with my boyfriend for twenty years. I don't feel like that would validate our relationship in any way. But I would really fight for someone else to have the right. Just elope, though, please.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

To enter upon the marriage union is one of the most deeply important events of life. It cannot be too prayerfully treated. Our happiness, our usefulness, our living for God or for ourselves afterwards, are often most intimately connected with our choice. Therefore, in the most prayerful manner, this choice should be made.

When I say, 'The choice to not marry,' that doesn't always translate into, 'I am a woman, and I am deciding that I am not going to get married,' or 'I am rejecting marriage.'

If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.

I like being married, but it was never something I felt I had to do.

Montanans believe in the right to make a good life for their families. How they define a family should be their business and their business alone. I'm proud to support marriage equality because no one should be able to tell a Montanan or any American who they can love and who they can marry.

I believe in less government interference in people's personal lives, including whom to marry, when and whether to bear a child and how to raise kind and compassionate children.

Yes, many people in rural parts of India are very orthodox and have arranged marriages. But I won't - I want to fall madly in love with someone and be whisked off my feet.

In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most vivid representation of your own personality. Your spouse becomes the most gleaming possible mirror through which your emotional individualism is reflected back to the world. There is no choice more intensely personal after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.

Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.

My parents really wanted me to have an arranged marriage when I was younger, but I think they have updated a bit with the times.

I feel career women should avoid getting married.