Married Quotes
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There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
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I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayspare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote.
Sylvia Plath— 1949 Diary entry,13 Nov. Collected in Aurelia Schober Plath (ed) Letters Home by Sylvia Plath,'Diary Supplement' (1949).
To marry is to domesticate the Recording Angel.Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide, but to be good.
Robert Louis Stevenson— 1881 Virginibus Puerisque, 'Virginibus Puerisque', pt.2.
Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl!How charmingly sweet you sing!O let us be married! too long we have tarried:But what shall we do for a ring?"
Edward Lear— St. 2.
What makes a date so dreadful is the weight of expectation attached to it. There is every chance that you may meet your soulmate, get married, have children and be buried side by side. There is an equal chance that the person you meet will look as if they’ve already been buried for some time.
Guy Browning— How to... Date, Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life’s Smaller Challenges (2004).
If you help yourself to the benefits of being married when you are single, you're likely to help yourself to the benefits of being single when you're married.
manis friedman— Doesn't Anyone Blush Anymore? (1990); as quoted in Fishman, Sylvia Barack. A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community. UPNE. 1995.
An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.
Zoë Foster Blake— Australian author, columnist, magazine editor, and cosmetics entrepreneur
When I got married, Allah's Apostle said to me, "What type of lady have you married?" I replied, "I have married a matron' He said, "Why, don't you have a liking for the virgins and for fondling them?" Jabir also said: Allah's Apostle said, "Why didn't you marry a young girl so that you might play with her and she with you?
— Narrated Jabir bin 'Abdullah, in Bukhari, Volume 7, Book 62, Number 17
If I am to disclose to you what I should prefer if I follow theinclinationof mynature,it isthis: beggar-womanand single, far rather than queen and married!
Elizabeth I— 1563 Attributed reply to an imperial envoy. Quoted in J E Neale Queen Elizabeth I (1979).
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
Katharine Hepburn— 1954 In the Journal American, 22 Feb.
Your daughters, I hope, will be married to Americans, and not in this dirty, despicable little island.
— 1777 Letter to Lady Ossory,11 Dec. InW S Lewis (ed) Selected Letters of HoraceWalpole (1973).
"If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted government intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or begat a child."
brennan, william j., jr.— Writing for the court, Eisenstadt v. Baird, 405 U.S. 438 (1972)
Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years too late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.
harpo marx— book, Harpo Speaks
When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 7 (Phineas Redux (1874))
With the Holy Mother as the centre of inspiration , a Math is to be established on the eastern bank of the Ganga... On the other side of the Ganga a big plot of land will be acquired, where unmarried girls or Brahmacharini widows will live; devout married women will also be allowed to stay now and then. Men will have no concern with this Math.
— Vivekananda, in The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 7/Conversations And Dialogues/XVIII
My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.
davis, Sammy, Jr.
An isolated outbreak of virginity ... is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.
— Charlotte Bingham, Lucinda, ch. 1 (1966)
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
jean rostand— French biologist and philosopher (1894 - 1977)
Blue! Gentle cousin of the forest-green, married to green in all the sweetest flowers— Forget-me-not,—the blue bell,—and, that queen Of secrecy, the violet: what strange powers Hast thou, as a mere shadow! But how great, When in an Eye thou art alive with fate!
john keats— Answer to a Sonnet by J. H. Reynolds.
Blue! Gentle cousin of the forest-green, married to green in all the sweetest flowers Forget-me-not, the blue bell, and, that queen Of secrecy, the violet: what strange powers Hast thou, as a mere shadow! But how great, When in an Eye thou art alive with fate!
john keats— John Keats, Answer to a Sonnet by J. H. Reynolds.
It's no fun being married to an electric light.
Joe DiMaggio— Of his marriage to Marilyn Monroe. Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
He [BrighamYoung] is dreadfully married. He's the most married man I ever saw in my life.
— 1869 ArtemusWard's Lecture,'BrighamYoung's Palace'.
One fool at least in every married couple.
Henry Fielding— Book IX, ch. 4
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
wilmot, john, 2nd earl of rochester— As quoted in The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom (1958) by Herbert Victor Prochnow
In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.
warren farrell— p. xxii. (Part IV: Where do we go from here)
He has married me with a ring, a ring of bright water Whose ripples spread from the heart of the sea, He has married me with a ring of light, the glitter Broadcast on the swift river.
kathleen raine— Poem The Marriage of Psyche
This was Barrington Erle, a politician of long standing, who was still looked upon by many as a young man, because he had always been known as a young man, and because he had never done anything to compromise his position in that respect. He had not married, or settled himself down in a house of his own, or become subject to the gout, or given up being careful about the fitting of his clothes.
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 11 (The Prime Minister (1876))
Wisdom married to immortal verse.
william wordsworth— William Wordsworth, The Excursion (1814), Book VII
And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar Of the Russias to boot, for the rest of his days, On the whole do you think he would have much to spare If he married a woman with nothing to wear?"
william allen butler— William Allen Butler, Nothing to Wear (1857).
There should be in the life of every married couple a continual building of the sacrament.
Mother Angelica— Franciscan nun (1923 - 2016)
