Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.

-Amin (Dada), Idi
  Unsolicited advice to Lord Snowdon on the ending of his marriage to Princess Margaret, quoted in  A Barrow International Gossip (1983).

From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.öYourmother will never seeyouagainif youdo not marry Mr Collins,and Iwill never seeyouagainif you do.

-Austen,Jane
  Pride and Prejudice, ch.20.

There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken inwhen they marry.Look where Iwill,Iseethat it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

-Austen,Jane
  Mansfield Park, ch.5.

He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the questionwhen a manshould marry? 'Ayoung man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.8,'Of Marriage and the Single Life'.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 22:30.

It is better to marry than to burn.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians 7:9.

A man who any woman might love, but who no sane woman would marry.

-Bird, Isabella married name Isabella Bishop
  Of Rocky Mountain  Jim, her guide on her travels on horseback through the Rockies.  A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains.

A Man may not marry his Grandmother.

-Book of Common Prayer
Table of Kindred and  Affinity.

It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.

-Brookner, Anita
A Start in Life.

I shall marry in haste and repeat at leisure. See Congreve 231:1.

-Cabell,James Branch
  Jurgen, ch.26.

   I could find it in my heart to marry thee, purely to be rid of thee.

-Congreve,William
  Belinda to Bellmore. The Old Bachelor, act 5, sc.10.

I have no humour to marry; I love to lie o' both sides of the bed myself; and again, o'th'other side.

-Dekker,Thomas
The Roaring Girl (with Thomas Middleton), act 2, sc.2.

   In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother; and yet a prudent man, when he begins to think of the daughter, would look sharp at the mother; ay, and back to the grandmother too, and along the whole female line of ancestry.

-Edgeworth, Maria
  Count O'Halloran's advice to Lord Colambare. The Absentee, ch.15.

The more women are paid, the less eager theyare to marry.

-Faludi, Susan
  Backlash (UK edn), ch.2,'Man Shortages and Barren Wombs'.

A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.

-Gabor, Zsa Zsa
Attributed.

Poetsshould never marry.Theworld should thank mefor not marrying you.

-Gonne, Maud
Attributed. Said to W B Yeats.

Those who marry God†can become domesticated tooöit's just as humdrum a marriage as all the others.

-Greene, (Henry) Graham
A Burnt-Out Case, ch.1.

Mrs Kennedy isgoing to marry Aristotle Socrates Onassis!† I feel strangely freer! No shadow walks behind me down the halls of the White House.

-Johnson, Claudia AltaTaylor known as Lady Bird
  A White House Diary.

I had often wondered why young women should marry, as they have so much more freedom, and so much more attention paid to them while unmarried, than when married.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark, 25 Mar. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.

Marry me and I'll never look at another horse.

-Marx, Groucho originally Julius Henry Marx
  Line delivered in  A Day at the Races (screenplay by George Seaton, Robert Pirosh and George Oppenheimer).