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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).

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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

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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

Tags: person, you, love, why, reminder, anniversary

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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

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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.

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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).

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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).

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"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)

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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

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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))

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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.

Tags: born, mother, neighborhood, Running, black, puerto Rican, white, funny, Funny Jewish

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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)

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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.

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One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.


— 1621Anatomy of Melancholy, pt.1, section 2, member 4, subsection 7.

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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?' They sailed away for a year and a day, To the land where the Bong-tree grows, And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood With a ring at the end of his nose.

Edward Lear

— 1871Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and  Alphabets,'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat'.

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In Church your grandsire cut his throat; To do the job too long he tarried, He should have had my hearty vote, To cut his throat before he married.

jonathan swift

— 1724  'Verses on the Upright Judge'.

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Fhairshon had a son,Who married Noah's daughter,And nearly spoiled ta Flood,By drinking up the water.Which he would have done,I at least pelieve it,Had the mixture beenOnly half Glenlivet.


— Poem, The Massacre of the Macpherson

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They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!

lea delaria

— Box Lunch

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Just because I was married to Aly Khan, people think I'm rich. Well, I'm not. I never got a dime from Aly or from any of my husbands.

rita hayworth

— As quoted in New York Times (25 October 1970)

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To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding in the church, which I have not seen many a day; and the young people so merry one with another, and strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and woman gazing and smiling at them.

Samuel Pepys

— December 25, 1665

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He had married, let us say for love; probably very much by chance.

Anthony Trollope

— Ch. 21 (Phineas Redux (1874))

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One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Aristotle

— Politics, Book II, Section VI (Translation by Benjamin Jowett)

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It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels As you said in the words of your song Too many times married men think they're still single That has caused many a good girl to go wrong


— Answer song to Hank Thompson's "The Wild Side of Life"
— Kitty Wells, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" (written by J. D. Miller)

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1 Kalki 23:49, 20 January 2009 (UTC) People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked. ~ Paul Newman


— 2 InvisibleSun 23:02, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
— The quote has now been sourced. - Zarbon 05:13, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

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married women are kept women, and theyare beginning to find it out.

Logan Pearsall Smith

— 1931Afterthoughts,'Other People'.

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