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.
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
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
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.
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).
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))
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
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.
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— John Keats, Answer to a Sonnet by J. H. Reynolds.
Reader, I married him.
charlotte brontë— 1847 Jane Eyre, ch.38.
Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.
Edna Ferber— 1958 Of Alaska. Ice Palace.
You know who Carrot-Top should be married to in a movie? Gallagher.
bill allred— Radio From Hell (May 30, 2006)
Let us be very strange and well-bred:Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while;And as well-bred as if we were not married at all.
william congreve— Act IV, scene v.
The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject, and to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.
sydney j. harris— On Jess Stearn’s The Sixth Man, Saturday Review (April 22, 1961)
I asked my Dad once, "How did you and Mum stay married for 33 years?" He said. "Well, we never wanted to get divorced at the same time."
gwyneth paltrow— Quoted in the Evening Standard, Thu 2 May 2013, p.16
I think honestly if you can wait until you're married I think you should definitely do that, because it's so much more sacred. That you don't go around sleeping with people. But I mean, I really thought I was going to be with him for the rest of my life, I did.
britney spears— Referring to losing her virginity to ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake.
The girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if by a slip of fate, into a family of clerks. She had no dowry, no expectations, no way of being known, understood, loved, married by any rich and distinguished man; so she let herself be married to a little clerk of the Ministry of Public Instruction.
Guy de Maupassant— Variant translation:
She was one of those pretty and charming girls, born by a blunder of destiny in a family of employees. She had no dowry, no expectations, no means of being known, understood, loved, married by a man rich and distinguished; and she let them make a match for her with a little clerk in the Department of Education.
Defenders of marriage. Defending the institution against people who wanna get married.
— Roy Zimmerman, “YouTube video” (song) (1998), Faulty Intelligence (album)
married, charming, chaste, and twenty-three.
Rochdale— 1819-24 Don Juan, canto1, stanza 59.
