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21 " No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. "
― Cesare Pavese
22 " When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. "
― Warren Farrell
23 " The only way we can divorce fears in our lives is by marrying our desires. "
24 " Many a man who falls in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. "
― Evan Esar
25 " The current relationship between companies and the workforce is like marrying into a dysfunctional family. Only you don't get to escape when the holiday meal is over. "
― Bill Jensen , Future Strong
26 " I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being. "
― Malcolm X , The Autobiography of Malcolm X
27 " People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort. "
― Thomas Hardy , Jude the Obscure
28 " In my dreams, I entered a world where success was based on ethics and proper dealings, not bribes and scams. My vision of sucess including marrying Sophia, having joyful children, unassuming friends, and warmhearted neighbors. I aspired for an environment where I would be valued for my good character, not the strength of my aggression. I wanted to leave West Beirut, the four square miles of a lesser world. "
― , Trapped in Four Square Miles
29 " And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate. "
― Dodie Smith , I Capture the Castle
30 " If I had a girl I should say to her, 'Marry for love if you can, it won't last, but it is a very interesting experience and makes a good beginning in life. Later on, when you marry for money, for heaven's sake let it be big money. There are no other possible reasons for marrying at all. "
― Nancy Mitford , Christmas Pudding
31 " Do you think it's possible to finally decide that you really, truly love someone but not end up marrying him? "
― Robin Jones Gunn , As You Wish (Christy and Todd: College Years #2)
32 " I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in order to not go mad, not assume I made a suicidal and well-informed error in marrying this man. "
― Suzanne Finnamore , Split: A Memoir of Divorce
33 " I read the paragraph again. A peculiar feeling it gave me. I don't know if you have ever experienced the sensation of seeing the announcement of the engagement of a pal of yours to a girl whom you were only saved from marrying yourself by the skin of your teeth. It induces a sort of -- well, it's difficult to describe it exactly; but I should imagine a fellow would feel much the same if he happened to be strolling through the jungle with a boyhood chum and met a tigress or a jaguar, or what not, and managed to shin up a tree and looked down and saw the friend of his youth vanishing into the undergrowth in the animal's slavering jaws. A sort of profound, prayerful relief, if you know what I mean, blended at the same time with a pang of pity. What I'm driving at is that, thankful as I was that I hadn't had to marry Honoria myself, I was sorry to see a real good chap like old Biffy copping it. I sucked down a spot of tea and began brooding over the business. "
― P.G. Wodehouse
34 " I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. " No man is. Marriage is a female invention. "
35 " Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband. "
― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables #2)
36 " We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments. Don't get me wrong; I liked J.Lo fine. I've made that bed. But I'm not sure there's a person in the world I could be with twenty-four hours a day for three weeks without getting a little snippy. If I ever meet such a person, I'm marrying them. "
― Adam Rex , The True Meaning of Smekday
37 " But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty. "
― Margaret George , The Memoirs of Cleopatra
38 " Marriage is very important. Marrying a girl is the most important thing a man can do. Never mind business or politics or sport or any of that, there's nothing so vital to the world as a man marrying a woman. That's where we get our children from, that's how the human race goes forward. And if it's too late for children, there's the companionship of a safe and trusted person. "
― Frank Delaney , The Matchmaker of Kenmare (A Novel of Ireland, #2)
39 " If you wanted to kidnap someone, what would you use?" she asked Amit. They were lying in bed, with the lights off. To knock them unconscious. So that you could drag them into the back of your van." Chloroform, I guess." Really?" She brightened. It made her happy that the person she was marrying would commit crimes in the same way as she would. "
40 " Many women to whom I have preached the doctrine of freedom have weakly replied, 'But who is to support the children?' It seems to me that if the marriage ceremony is needed as a protection to insure the enforced support of children, then you are marrying a man who, you suspect, would under certain conditions, refuse to support his children, and it is a pretty low-down proposition. For you are marrying a man whom you already suspect of being a villain. But I have not so poor an opinion of men that I believe the greater percentage of them to be such low specimens of humanity. "
― Isadora Duncan , My Life