Quotation Explorer - 'Married'

I was wedded to all the stars of the sky.There was not a single star left, and I married every one of them with great spiritual pleasure. Then I married the moon. - Ibn Arabi
True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words or in an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid. - Auliq Ice
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never. - Jack Benny
Globally, millions of married men and women engage the servicesof sex workers each year. Despite growing health concerns aboutthe increased risk of STDs and HIV AIDS this trade continues toblossom, leading to the premature termination of several lives andthe dissolution of several marriages. - Oche Otorkpa
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. - Groucho Marx
Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship, and it's all about hiding your disappointment. And then, once you're married, it's about hiding your sins. - Joss Whedon
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can. - George Bernard Shaw
The advantage of being married a long time was that one could argue without the necessity of the other's actual, physical presence. - William Browning Spencer
Better be a desperate single with many options than a sad married with no option. - Amen Muffler
I'm not apt to be getting married in the near future and my lifestyle isn't apt to dramatically change as a result of any new relationship.
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married? - Barbra Streisand
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. - Mr Bennet - Jane Austen
Which crime has the female sex committed to be sentenced to the harsh necessity which consists of being locked up all life either as a prisoner or a slave? I call the nuns prisoners and the married women slaves. - Christina Queen of Sweden
It isn`t premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married. - Drew Carey
What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married. - George Bernard Shaw
Dont get married, just find someone you dont like and buy them a house.
Doubt is a storm. We either ride it out, or we change our course. Neither is right or wrong--to stay or go. Twenty years ago, should you have really married X, or Y? This college, or that? A life-changing decision one makes becomes the right decision by the fact of simply having been made. - T.M. McNally
Being married is effortless; being happily married takes work. - Matshona Dhliwayo
And on this night, the last of its kind before we get married to each other at the stroke of 8 tomorrow in the evening, as I walk towards my bed to call the day off, the last puff of wind brought from a fairy-tale land urges me to write this letter as your girlfriend, for one last time. - Debalina Haldar
Like many others before him, Abbott discovers, once married, that marriage is a battle—clinically, a negotiation—over the possession of the Bad Mood. - Chris Bachelder
Ma had been very fashionable, before she married Pa, and a dressmaker had made her clothes. - Laura Ingalls Wilder
As the day you get married is as important as the years of courtship, so the journey to success is as important as success itself. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that they just about throw up. - Barbara Bush
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to. - J. R. R. Tolkien
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt. - William Shakespeare
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again. - Nora Ephron
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. - Katharine Hepburn
I'm square. My sense of right and wrong makes it very difficult for me to have an affair. I have to be really in love in order to sleep with a man and when I'm really in love I want to be married. - Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor
By now, she was far from the scorch of these sands. After the ransom deal, she would be safely married in England. To Ashton. And Caine, who had hurt her far more than anything Abdullah had planned for her with that long, curved dagger, deserved no better than this torment of knowing it. - V.S. Carnes
Once she had said to him that what they had was grace. Even now, married properly, rank bestowed, it still was. And always would be - Anne Leonard
Part of the fruit of the Spirit is self-control. Once you get married, however, a good defense is frequency and freedom. - Mark Driscoll
‎True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid. - Joshua Harris
Better be a desperate single with options than a desperate married with no options. - Amen Muffler
Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day. - Mickey Rooney
She dated me for 3/4 yrs and liked me so much that she married me and disliked me so much that she divorced me after 4 yrs. - honeya
Well, no, not married as such, but yes, there is a specific girl that I'm not married to. - Douglas Adams
We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. - Nick Faldo
Some couples are married because they fell in love. Some are married because the woman fell pregnant. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The thought cross his mind that he ought to have married her and not gone rambling. If he had, he wouldn't be in such a fix. But he felt little fear; just an overpowering fatigue. Life had slipped out of line. It was unfair, it was too bad, but he couldn't find the energy to fight it any longer. - Larry McMurtry
I'm happily married to Peter senior; we're best friends as well as lovers, which is probably the best recipe for a successful relationship. We live in a lovely part of England. - Carole Mortimer
Some women would not cheat, and some would not have cheated, had they each married a man whom they love or at least like. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I don't have to get married to grow up! - Jum Jumms
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. - H.L. Mencken
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. - Mark Twain
They still had sexual relations with another, slept in the same bed, shared kisses and intimacy and matrimonial fluid, however both were not married to each other in that sense, although there was a piece of paper that said otherwise. - Keira D. Skye
Being married means giving it your all to your spouse daily. Even when you don’t feel like it and even when it hurts. It means looking beyond yourself, and giving to them because they are a part of you. - marriage.com
She's SINGLE doesnt really mean she's AVAILABLE.She's IN A RELATIONSHIP doesnt really mean she's NOT INTERESTED.She's ENGAGED doesnt really mean IT'S OVER.IT'S JUST COMPLICATED untill she's MARRIED! - Emmanuel Aghado
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. - Iris Murdoch
Alexandra had been married for thirty-three years; if it had made any impression on her one way or another, she never showed it. - Harper Lee
I married my first husband for love, my second husband for adventure, and my third husband for laffs. - Carolyn V. Hamilton
To hear how great your friends think you are: fake your death, or, get married. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If your children asked you about your honesty with God, Let them look at the pictures with the person you married and was the reason they're alive...and they will understand. - RSCruz
First of all, never buy a man a plasma TV until you're married. A lot of men once they have a plasma TV they don't need a girlfriend - Greg Behrendt
I found out that when you get married the man becomes the head of the house. And the woman becomes the neck, and she turns the head any way she wants to.
What do I know about sex? I'm a married man. - Tom Clancy
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal. - Lucretia Mott
I'm married. And pregnant. - Edan Lepucki
The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. - Ann Landers
Darling, do you rememberthe man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am. - Stanley Kunitz
Follow your passion; Do not get married to it, though. - Ashok Kallarakkal
I married a man who was as much a part of me as my own soul. - C.J. English
Marriages last because the people in them want to be married - Linda Grant
If got chance, 90% of married women in this world possess the power to manage home, child and career simultaneously, and many are still doing it. The challenge here is that what percent of married men has the will to say - I will help you out. - Shayana K.
Behind every successful man,there isn't just a woman but a prayerful and hard working woman.If not every married man would be successful - ABC
Some people love but will never marry each other. Some are married to but have never loved and will never love each other. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and giver a house.
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. - Carolyn Heilbrun
If all the women over the world have been permitted to be married to only one man, except one woman. He'd love to marry that woman. That is the imprint of man - Ali ibn Abi Talib
Personally, I know nothing about sex, because I have always been married. - Zsa Zsa Gabor
The groom should not see you in the dress just before the wedding, that’s bad luck. You know what’s worst luck? Is getting married, itself. I’ve read studies. It’s like 2 out of 3 of those end in divorce, sometimes more. 3 out of 2, some. - Hank Moody
Don't settle… The worst thing will be to find the man or woman that truly deserves you after you've married one who doesn't. - Nike Thaddeus
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. - Bertrand Russell
I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married. - Marlo Thomas
Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one. - Mae West
If you have to make a daily choice to be in a relationship then you are married to the past, not the person. - Shannon L. Alder
I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me. - Elayne Boosler
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me. - Bette Midler
Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple. - Charles Lamb
I’ve been married but I’m not anymore. And I still believe in love. - Nick Saint Clair
If he's not a wreck without you, you married the wrong man. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Being married definitely took work. When we fought, I felt like I wanted to float away and drown, whereas before I knew I could walk away without any strings attached. - Brenda Perlin
As I looked and looked, the living face became visible in the dead, the young in the old. This is what must happen to old married couples, I thought: the young man is preserved in the old one for her, the beauty and grace of the young woman stay fresh in the old one for him. - Bernhard Schlink
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership. - Ann Landers
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished. - Zsa Zsa Gabor
Never get married while you're going to college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake. - Kin Hubbard
Generally, a woman would rather be married to any man that she doesn’t hate, than remain unmarried to a man that she loves. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Maybe you didn't want to get married, or get tied down?'Tsukuru shook his head. 'No, I don't think that was it. I'm the sort of person who craves stability. - Haruki Murakami
The papers say we're married, but it's the heart that writes the love story. - Anthony Liccione
When i dated someone, my goal is to marry her, i date to get married one day, i don't date a girl just to have sex and leave her, why wasting your time if the goal is not to get married? - Werley Nortreus
I was married, a mom, and a career woman—the holy trinity of women in the twenty-first century. The three expressions were truly distinct, but the unity of them created the essence. I must confess I felt in control, much more than I felt blessed. - Sharon Nir
Oh, I simply can’t think. When I really want to depress myself, I think of all the brilliant men I know, married to their stupid wives. Enough to break your heart, it really is - Doris Lessing
Sabrina: But you don’t believe in marriage.Linus: Yes, I do. It’s why I’ve never married. - Samuel Taylor
Music felt married to place, and the notion of "somewhere" predated the Internet's seeming invention of "everywhere" (which often ends up feeling like "nowhere"). - Carrie Brownstein
Communist until you get rich. Feminist until you get married. Atheist until the airplane starts falling. - juanda brahma metta
Why doesn't anyone tell you we all wind up married to Henry the VIII?......My dear Anne Boleyn,...the only way a woman can avoid waking up next to Henry is to model herself after his daughter Elizabeth and sleep next to no one at all. - Judith Claire Mitchell
Love is so much better when you are not married.
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. - Jackie Mason
Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories. - John Wilmot
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. - Zsa Zsa Gabor
Not every happy person is married, and, Not every married person is happy. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he earns; and many a man would not be in a relationship with or married to his woman, if he earned twice as much as he earns. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Sexiness wears thin after awhile and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that is a treat. - Joanne Woodward
Love, trust, sincerity and sex key element of happy married life. - Minesh Shakya
Spend Night with Lonely Married Women is pleasure Moments of the life.Life for Fun, not waste it.Being Human and do social responsibilities - Lolly
Better be a desperate single with many options than a desperate married with no option. - Amen Muffler
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes. - Lord Chesterfield
There is a huge college about how men and women interact with each other after marriage. But people get married without learning. - Dada Bhagwan
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. - John Wilmot
Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them. - Samuel Pepys
On the power of money a physically disabled person can be married with a Miss World. - Tanmaya Guru
Shame on you. Don't tell me you've been married for an hour and you've already got eyes for another woman. - Mordecai Richler
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. - Rita Rudner
Whenever I get married I start buying Gourmet Magazine. - Nora Ephron
"What is it the Bible teaches us? - rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith. - Thomas Paine
The greatest adventure for a person is to live own life, but even greater daring than that for a man is to live a married life and sustain by offering own opinion to his wife. - Anuj Somany
If I get married, I want to be very married. - Audrey Hepburn
Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away? - Sue Townsend
Many a woman is in a relationship with or married to her man not because she loves him but only because she likes men like him. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening. - Ruth Rendell
Many in America, as one social historian wrote, 'believed implicitly that New York's social leaders went to bed in full evening dress, brushed their teeth in vintage champagne, married their daughters without exception to shady French counts, and arrayed their poodle dogs in diamond tiaras.'... - Greg King
And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man showered on a woman before he married her, what he secretly wanted was for her to flatten out underneath his feet like Mrs. Willard's kitchen mat. - Sylvia Plath
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce. - P.J. O'Rourke
Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel is ideology. Ideology is a man-made format of how the world ought to work, and Christians instead believed in the revealing truth Scripture. - Charles W. Colson
One of the things you learn about being married is that being with someone day in and day out can make you so comfortable that you risk losing your tact. - Apol Lejano-Massebieau
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
I don't sleep with happily married men.
The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce. - Cokie Roberts
Other married people have lived together and hated each other. Why shouldn't we? We may forget even to hate. - E. Phillips Oppenheim
I was my own boss, but that all changed the day I got married. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks. - Jennifer Crusie
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up. - Barbara Bush
My own personal position is that it's much more special to wait for the person who you're married to.
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. - Zsa Zsa Gabor
I never married, but if I had done so, I'm sure I'd have divorced the sod a long time ago. Life is simply too short to hang around with annoying people. That may be why I have so few friends. I'm sure my daughter concurs. - Pansy Schneider-Horst
If I had wanted children of my own, I would have gotten married. If I had wanted to get married, I would have fallen in love. If I had wanted to fall in love, I would have met the right girl. If I had wanted to meet the right girl, I would have drank a whole lot less. - Carroll Bryant
People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to lose. It's always the most conventional things that contain the largest measure of madness. - Javier Marías
Get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day. - Mickey Rooney
Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before. - Bertrand Russell
I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no. - Ewan McGregor
The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress. - Chuck Palahniuk
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once. - G.K. Chesterton
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. - Clint Eastwood
You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty. - Peter Blake
If a man wants to get married to a woman, it's a human right.If a man wants to get married to a man, it's a human right. If a women wants to get married to a woman, it's a human right.You can take anything away, but not a human right. - Mekiah Johnson
The most out-there thing I’m saying is, ‘Don’t have babies. Don’t get married and have kids. Have a larger life than that. - Roseanne Barr
There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more. - Dave Grohl
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging. - Maya Angelou
Getting married is easy, having sex is easier, but findings someone who can stimulate your mind and make love to your soul, that is rare. - Habeeb Akande
A married man with a family will do anything for money.
One should never know too precisely whom one has married. - Friedrich Nietzsche
My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to. - Rita Rudner
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. - Nikola Tesla
Nevertheless, likin' is a tender plant, and never thrives long when watered with tears. Let the 'arth around your married happiness be moistened by the dews of kindness. - James Fenimore Cooper
I married beneath me. All women do. - Nancy Astor
We were married by a reformed rabbi in Long Island. A very reformed rabbi. A Nazi. - Woody Allen
I know nothing about sex because I was always married. - Zsa Zsa Gabor
You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Laws of attraction could build a strong relationship among married couples or friends. - Saaif Alam
doesn't cease to exist the moment she gets married. I am not giving myself away. I belong to myself and I always shall. - Benazir Bhutto
Most men who are not married by the age of thirty-five are either homosexual or really smart.
I married beneath me - all women do. - Nancy Astor
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt. - William Shakespeare
Some people are married to ideas that they do not love, ideas that do not love them in return. They are married to ideas they do not sleep with, ideas that rob them of their sleep. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up. - Mae West
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