Being Married Quotes - Page 15

• Very often, the way love is defined, it does violence to both people. It almost makes them a slave to the other. For example, if to be in love, or to be married, it means that I'm responsible for the other person's happiness, now we get into this guilt game, where if they're upset, I'm at fault. Soon, that makes the person we are closest to about as much fun to be around as a prolonged dental appointment.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Fun, Communication, Mean

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• In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I would be married to a white woman.

  Randall Kennedy

  White, Wife, Would Be

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• Marriage...one of the most civilized institutions in the world...But...swimming is one of the most wonderful of sports, and yet there are always some people who cannot swim who insist on going into the water and getting drowned. Many people spoil marriage in a like manner. One should be sure she knows how to be married before rushing into it.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Sports, Swimming, Rushing

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• Being married to those sleepy-souled women is just like playing at cards for nothing: no passion is excited and the time is filled up. I do not, however, envy a fellow one of those honeysuckle wives for my part, as they are but creepers at best and commonly destroy the tree they so tenderly cling about.

  Samuel Johnson

  Passion, Filled Up, Envy

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.257

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• People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, “If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it.” They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.

  Heather O'Neill

  Halloween, Kids, Hard Times

  Heather O'Neill (2016). “Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel”, p.13, HarperCollins

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• I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Sex, Married, Gender

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.143

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• Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Life, Brother, Book

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.207, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The point of life is not to be married or single - it is to be. We are human beings, or humans being. It does not matter so much what lifestyle we choose - it's what we make of the opportunities to grow, that counts.

  Alan Cohen

  Success, Opportunity, Doe

  Alan Cohen (1987). “Companions of the Heart: A Treasury of Inspiration and Encouragement”, Dolphin Communications Company

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• A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Daughter, Mother, Wedding

  Sarah Ruhl (2010). “The Clean House and Other Plays”, p.435, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.

  Francois Gautier

  Country, Daughter, Mother

  "'There Is an Unconscious Militant Dislike of the Christian World Towards Hindu India'". Interview with Rajeev Srinivasan, www.rediff.com. February 12, 1999.

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• If you don't believe me, did you happen to notice that all that's being asked for is the right to be married, which ironically promotes commitment, family and love.

  Mo'Nique Imes-Jackson

  Believe, Commitment, Gay

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• You speak of sacrifice, but it is not my sacrifice I offer. It is yours I ask of you," he went on. "I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope that you will not care that I am being selfish in trying to make the rest of my life--whatever its length--happy, by spending it with you. I want to be married to you, Tessa. I want it more than I have ever wanted anything else in my life.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love, Selfish, Short Life

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• I want it all... fast. I want to be married, I want to live together... and then somewhere around a year or two years, I get freaked out. I freak out emotionally and then I actually feel like 'Oh my God, who's this stranger in my house?'

  Fred Armisen

  Years, Two, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You have to learn how to be married. You have to learn to love somebody.

  Ruby Dee

  Married

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• The snag in being married to a person who knows more or less everything is that one gets hopelessly lazy. ... I never look things up in books because all I need to do is ask him, and when he gives me the answers I don't properly commit them to memory because I know if I forget all I have to do is to ask him again. It is rather like keeping one's brain in a suitcase.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Memories, Book, Giving

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• You may be married to a star, but that doesn't mean they'll treat you like one.

  Jess C Scott

  Stars, Mean, May

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• Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.

  Myrtle Reed

  Married, Achieve, Born

  Myrtle Reed (1911). “Master of the Vineyard”, p.115, Library of Alexandria

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• the three most common myths of modern romance: 1. Single men would prefer being married. 2. Married men actually leave their wives. 3. Men who wear gold chains give gold rings.

  Linda Sunshine

  Men, Giving, Wife

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• To be married is to be neither alone nor together.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Together, Married

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.97, New Victoria Publishers

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• In life we all go through different situations that cause you to reflect. I had the opportunity to be married to a wonderful person. And for some reason two good people couldn't make a good thing work. But in life, the one thing that I love about being an artist is that you can sometimes use the pain that you go through to make beautiful things.

  Ruben Studdard

  Beautiful, Pain, Opportunity

  "Ruben Studdard, ‘American Idol’ Winner, Talks New Album, Divorce And Health". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2012.

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• In my view there are basically two types of weddings. There is the wedding that is based on law, and there is the wedding that is based on Christ and based on grace. We felt that those who have been married by the law, they would like to have that special privilege and benefit by being married by the church.

  Bill Vaughan

  Views, Law, Two

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• I'm very comfortable being married to an extremely strong, opinionated, and driven woman. But I also sit at the head of the table. I have both of those sides to me.

  Kevin Bacon

  Strong, Tables, Sides

  Interview with George Gurley, www.elle.com. June 17, 2011.

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• Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.

  Ed McMahon

  Swag, Two, People

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• To be married to a wife who can set type is happiness indeed.

  Walter Tracy

  Wife, Design, Married

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• This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married.

  Chris Cleave

  Lovers, Married

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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