“I always say to these here, marry the first man that asks you. There's only three classes of men a woman should never marry - a delicate man, a drunken man, and a lazy man. I'm not so sure that the lazy man isn't the worst.”

“A married man is only half a man.”

André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer

“When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

“I'm so glad I didn't ruin a man's life by marrying him.”

Lillian Gish (1893–1993) American actress

“But yet he was reputed one of the wise men, that made answer to the question, when a man should marry,—A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”

Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998) journalist from the United States

“I have it on good authority that Yankee men are so lazy they marry pregnant women.”

Lewis Grizzard (1946–1994) American journalist

“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?”

Barbra Streisand (1942) American singer, actress, writer, film producer, and director

“There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray