Being Married Quotes - Page 2

• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Motivational, Friendship

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• Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Anniversary, Marriage

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

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• 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

  Love, Funny, Life

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• 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

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…”, p.8291, e-artnow

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• Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

  Ogden Nash

  Inspirational, Life, Marriage

  Ogden Nash, “A Word To Husbands”

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• I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.

  Thornton Wilder

  Marriage, Children, Growing Up

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• I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.

  Stephanie Mills

  Wedding, Being Single, Married

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• Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouse's positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the lists and reread them frequently.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Marriage, Writing, Quality

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• I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

  Lord Byron

  Happiness, Wedding, Men

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• I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Marriage, Wife, Married

  "Elizabeth Taylor: Hollywood mourns last of the greats" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2011.

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• I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.

  John Keats

  Thinking, Married, Mets

  Letter to Fanny Brawne, 8 July 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 127

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• Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Marriage, Wedding, Opportunity

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903)

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• Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Sarcastic

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891).Wilde used the same words in A Woman of No Importance (1893).

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• Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• 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

  Marriage, Flirty, Nice

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy". Book by H. L. Mencken , as quoted in "The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations" by Robert Andrews (2003), 1949.

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• The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.

  Cher

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Children, Study

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• The one thing that reconciles me to the fact of being a woman is the reflection that it delivers me from the necessity of being married to one.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Reflection, Facts, Married

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• We allow each other to pursue our goals. I wouldn't want to be married to someone who was not happy with what they were doing with their life and Bono wouldn't either.

  Ali Hewson

  Goal, Want, Married

  "Postcards from the edge" by Martin Wroe, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2002.

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• Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Thinking, Giving

  1813 Pride and Prejudice, ch.24.

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• I realized I loved you, and I didn't want to be married to somebody I didn't love. I wanted to be married to you. It isn't all that complicated.

  Richard Ford

  Want, Married, Complicated

  Richard Ford (2012). “Rock Springs”, p.224, A&C Black

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• [about sex and being married] It's like being the National Guard, we may not be seeing as much action as the front line, but we are living to fight another day.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Sex, Humor

  "Jeff Foxworthy: Totally Committed". www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• I'm throwing myself back in because I like being married. I don't want to end this whole fabulous journey alone. I want someone by my side who I love and who loves me. I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very high maintenance.

  Neil Diamond

  Journey, Wife, Tasks

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• Being married sucked. Maybe for some people it is not meant to be.

  Kid Rock

  People, Married, Meant To Be

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The best part about being married is that feeling of being a team.
  All couples have ups and downs, so having someone you trust is priceless

  Hugh Jackman

  Couple, Team, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Jan 28, 2013

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