Quotes About Getting Married

“You just asked me to marry you," he said, still waiting for me to admit some kind of trickery.
"I know."
"That was the real deal, you know. I just booked two tickets to Vegas for noon tomorrow. So that means we're getting married tomorrow night."
"Thank you."
His eyes narrowed. "You're going to be Mrs. Maddox when you start classes on Monday."
"Oh," I said, looking around. Travis raised an eyebrow.
"Second thoughts?"
"I'm going to have some serious paperwork to change next week."
He nodded slowly, cautiously hopeful. "You're going to marry me tomorrow?"
I smiled. "Uh huh"
"You're serious?"
"Yep."
"I fucking love you!" He grabbed each side of my face, slamming his lips against mine. "I love you so much, Pigeon," he said, kissing me over and over.”

— Jamie McGuire

“Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.”

— Rod Stewart

“Marriage should be the result of love between the couple getting married and not brute force from their parents.”

— K. Hari Kumar

“Lucius paused, turning on his heel to face me. "I grow weary of your ignorance." He moved closer to me, leaning down and peering into my eyes. "Because your parents refuse to inform you, I will deliver the news myself,and I shall make this simple for you." He pointed to his chest and announced, as though talking to a child, "I am a vampire." He pointed to my chest. "You are a vampire. And we are to be married, the moment you come of age. This has been decreed since our births."
I couldn't even process the "getting married" part, or the thing about "decreed." He'd lost me at "vampire."
Nuts. Lucius Vladescu is completely nuts. And I'm alone with him, in an empty barn.
So I did what any sane person would do. I jammed the pitchfork in the general direction of his foot and ran like hell for the house, ignoring his yowl of pain.”

— Beth Fantaskey

“The failure of so many marriages is due to their getting married out of animal passion and not out of love.”

— Samael Aun Weor

“The groom should not see you in the dress just before the wedding, that's bad luck. You know what's worst luck? Is getting married, itself. I've read studies. It's like 2 out of 3 of those end in divorce, sometimes more. 3 out of 2, some.”

— Hank Moody

“Harry: I supposed getting married wouldn't be any worse than killing myself.”

— Caryl Churchill

“Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting married.”

— Erica Jong

“God, can you imagine getting married at nineteen?" miranda asked. "when i was nineteen i didnt even know how to do my own laundry." she added, for david's beneit, "you know, laundry? washing your own clothes? there are people who do that."
he rolled his eyes. "i know how to do laundry. i watched my wife do it dozens of times.”

— Dianne Sylvan

“I'm going to make the wildly unfounded assumption that Satara's dead by your hand and not Tory's. Now, stay with me on this, Cajun. My father slit my throat and murdered my wife because he thought I'd betrayed him by getting married. Before that, he loved me more than his life and I was his last surviving child. His second in command. Now what do you think he's going to do to you once he sees her body? I can assure you, it won't be a fun-filled trip to Chuck E. Cheese. (Urian)”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Now, Ron, have you cleaned out your room yet?" "Why?" exclaimed Ron, slamming his spoon down and glaring at his mother. "Why does my room have to be cleaned out? Harry and I are fine with it the way it is!" "We are holding your brother's wedding here in a few days' time, young man -" "And are they getting married in my bedroom?" asked Ron furiously. "No! So why in the name of Merlin's saggy left -" "Don't talk to your mother like that," said Mr. Weasley firmly. "And do as you're told.”

— J.K. Rowling

“There's no blueprint; getting married doesn't make you boring, having kids doesn't make you boring, having money doesn't necessarily have to make you boring.”

— Amanda Palmer

“Getting married was a ball. Being married was ... a nightmare.”

— Kid Rock

“Mother, just like the last fifty-five thousand times you've mentioned it, I have no intention of getting married and having a family. You're just going to have to content yourself with the grandchildren you already have. ...
...
His mother narrowed her eyes at him. He could see her mind working on how to get him to come around. She was never going to give up, and she would be fit and healthy enough to badger him about it for years and years.
...
Lance had heard humans talk about the tenacity of Jewish mothers. He didn't know any, but he'd be surprised if they could hold a candle to the relentless herding instinct of a quickened mother who was descended on both sides from border collies.”

— Eli Easton

“When I go home to Pennsylvania, my cousins who live in small towns and are twenty-three with kids are like 'Krysten, when are you getting married?' 'When are you having a kid?' Honestly, those aren't the most important things to me right now.”

— Krysten Ritter

“I didn't plan on being a comedian. I didn't plan on getting married and I didn't plan on having kids, but I did all those things.”

— Rodney Carrington

“I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.”

— Gianni Versace

“I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married.”

— Hugh Hefner

“Getting married was the best thing I've ever done.”

— Megan Fox

“I think that Vegas is one of the wildest places I've ever been to. You can look to your left and there's a drag queen getting married by Elvis, to the right there is some old bird sticking quarters into a slot machine for hours.”

— Marsha Thomason

“I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.”

— Ian Fleming

“I like James Franco. I think he's really cute. I remember a while ago there was a rumor going around that he was getting married and all my friends and I were freaking out. Yeah, I think he's cute!”

— Miranda Cosgrove

“I'm well aware that it's life I need, and it's life I'm looking for. But the offer has gotten "interpreted" by well-meaning people to say, "Oh, well. Yes, of course ... God intends life for you. But that is eternal life, meaning, because of the death of Jesus Christ you can go to heaven when you die." And that's true ... in a way. But it's like saying getting married means, "Because I've given you this ring, you will be taken care of in your retirement." And in the meantime? Isn't there a whole lot more to the relationship in the meantime? (It's in the meantime that we're living out our days, by the way.) Are we just lost at sea? What did Jesus mean when he promised us life? I go back to the source, and what I find is just astounding.”

— John Eldredge

“My dear, the truth must be spoken. I declare I don't think I ever saw a young woman so improvident as you are. When are you to begin to think about getting married if you don't do it now?"
"I shall never begin to think about it, till I buy my wedding clothes.”

— Anthony Trollope

“Seasons 5 and 6 were about the frustrations of Leslie Knope's new job. They also are about Ben and Leslie finally getting married and pregnant. They dealt with Ann and Chris leaving, Andyand April trying to figure out what they wanted, Donna finding love, and Tom entering a new business venture. I forget what happened with Jerry.”

— Amy Poehler

“The next step in my life is hopefully meeting a nice guy and getting married.”

— Tara Reid

“Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.”

— Patricia Richardson

“Getting married has certainly made a massive difference to my own life. So I am committed to giving support for family finances and having the right policies for work-life balance that make it easier for couples to have a rich family life.”

— Gordon Brown

“There are many things that keep me from getting married. But there will be a time when marriage makes sense to me.”

— Adam Levine

“I had a friend who was getting married. I said, 'You're getting married - I didn't know about all this!' She said, 'I need health benefits.'”

— Nancy Pelosi

“I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody, most of them, and maybe they're secretly all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.”

— J.D. Salinger

“There is a gap in my work from '84 to 2002, 18 years where I stopped writing. I was working at fiction and other things and starting a school and getting married and starting a family, but I wasn't writing poetry for the better part of 15 years.”

— Philip Schultz

“I don't see myself getting married again, but if I do, it will be forever.”

— Richard Pryor

“Moving in is almost a bigger step than getting married.”

— Joel Kinnaman

“I'm consumed with curiosity because if I know Dirk, he probably sent his family a two-tine note-"I'm getting married. I'll be there in a week,"-and no further explanation whatsoever."
Skif laughed, and admitted that that was just about what Dirk had written, word for word.”

— Mercedes Lackey

“What was that old story about how women had a better chance of being abducted by aliens than they did getting married after forty?”

— Dorothea Benton Frank

“Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.”

— Mae West

“One day it hit me: Truest friends, God bless their hearts, could not care less. They love you, they're pleased you're getting married and, ultimately, they don't give a fig how you get it done.”

— Lynn Coady

“People were fed up with reality shows about midgets getting married and weird Jerry Springer talk shows. There had been a real dry spell of intelligent family-oriented viewing: the type of program that Mom, Dad and the kids can all watch together. With 'Lost,' there are just so many characters for people to invest in.”

— Evangeline Lilly

“In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.”

— Vanessa Paradis

“I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.”

— Zac Efron

“The only problem with getting married is that we can't fornicate anymore.”

— David Hoffman

“Young people, look to your Bible when thinking about any matter, including getting married.”

— Billy Graham

“Elliot - Elliot waved absently, making a decision right then and there. He'd take the trip that Patrick offered. A cruise down Europe's most famous rivers couldn't be any more disruptive than home, after all.
Alice -I stood up shaking the laptop at nothing. "He made me think we were going to get married at the end of this trip! He had me look up the laws for Americans getting married in Budapest!"
"Ball-hanging is too good for him. He serves something worse. Off with his head!"
"I will take that trip!" I yelled at the small living room filled with boxes that I had yet to unpack. "And I will enjoy myself! A lot!”

— Katie MacAlister

“Some people warned me against getting married soon. They said your career will end if you do. I felt I wanted to marry Siddharth (Roy Kapur) and I went ahead and married him. And I guess he felt like he wanted to marry me, so we are married today. If I hadn't felt it for the next ten years probably I wouldn't have got married. There is no right time. There's never a right time.”

— Vidya Balan

“Each time we go through a major life change (getting married or divorced, moving, having a family, switching careers, starting a new business, going back to school), we experience a breakdown of our organizational systems. It's inevitable-we are dealing with a new set of realities-and it takes time to process the information and to actually see what there is to organize.”

— Julie Morgenstern

“Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me.”

— Drake

“Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.”

— Michel De Montaigne

“Marriage is under attack from so many different areas. There should be benefits associated with married people. Life is unfair. Maybe you won't find the right person and you won't end up getting married. Oh, well, life is unfair. But married people, because of their capacity to have children, even if they're not going to end up having children, even if they're unable to bear children, marriage is an institution that is absolutely central to civilization.”

— Ann Coulter

“I do not regret getting married nor do I regret getting divorced.”

— Eva Longoria