
“A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.”
Newsweek, March 28, 1960
Source: A Woman of No Importance
“A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.”
Newsweek, March 28, 1960
“He is dreadfully married. "He's the most married man I ever saw in my life."”
Moses, the Sassy.
“A man may be a fool and not know it — but not if he is married.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
“When a man marries his mistress, he creates a vacancy.”
Evening Standard, "Quote of the Day", Mon 13 January 2014, p. 16
Reimar Vagnsson
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Four: The Beauty of the Heavens
“When a Man has Married a Wife
He finds out whether
Her Knees & elbows are only
glued together.”
Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1800–1803)
1800s
“When a man marries his mistress, he creates a job vacancy.”
Book of Humorous Quotations, ed. Connie Robertson (1998), page 83
“No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.”
Theory held by Disraeli, cited in Sir William Fraser, Disraeli and his Day (1891), p. 142.
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