Agnes Macphail Quotes

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

If you pursue the other woman, it's a losing situation and it's not good for your relationship or your marriage. If your marriage is open and you're allowed to, that's no good either. There's no way, really in the end, to be happy unless you get very lucky.

The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one who, running out of the rain, falls into the river.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

I'd think, 'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person.

It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.

Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.

The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

Republicans sleep in twin beds—some even in separate rooms. That is why there are more Democrats.

Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!

A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.

I would have been long divorced if I got married.

I love having boyfriends. I love dating. I do not want a husband in my house.

If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.

I've never been married, and I have no regrets about not starting my own family. I come from a large one, so there are so many people around all the time. I've been very happy, but I've never gotten married. That's about the size of it. I would have been a good father because I've been a father to my brothers' and sisters' children.

I don't think marriage is in the cards for me. I think it's an archaic institution.

The last thing in the world I want to do is marry. I am too selfish, but I won't elaborate on that.

I don't want to get married - I've been there and done that. So I know what I'm talking about when I say that. And for everybody has a different path - find out your path! And if you want to do it, don't let people make you feel inadequate because you wanted to do something that's different.

I never set out to get married and the way things have worked out I never have.

I wanted to write about this tropical honeymoon in part because I had the most drastically terrible honeymoon.

People get married for a wide array of reasons and have all sorts of expectations of how marriage will change the relationship. And while it's true that turning the person you're dating into a legal partner does affect certain things, those who expect marriage to be a cure-all for all your relationship woes are sorely mistaken.

You want a happy romantic relationship? Don’t ruin it by getting married.

What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.

I never met a man I could marry.