Being Married Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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  A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

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

  Stephanie Mills

  Wedding, Being Single, Married

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

  David Bowie

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

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• I would have given it up--all of it up--to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder--a reminder of everything I am losting. The Life I will not have.

  Cassandra Clare

  Married, Reminders, Given

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• Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

  Rollo May

  Passion, Creativity, Childhood

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Who wants to be married to a grandfather?

  Loretta Lynn

  Grandfather, Want, Married

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.194, Vintage

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• Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a certain pitiful, shamed, little hope that Romance would come her way yet - never, until this wet, horrible morning, when she wakened to the fact that she was twenty-nine and unsought by any man. Ay, there lay the sting. Valancy did not mind so much being an old maid. After all, she thought, being an old maid couldn’t possibly be as dreadful as being married to an Uncle Wellignton or an Uncle Benjamin, or even an Uncle Herbert. What hurt her was that she had never had a chance to be anything but an old maid.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Hurt, Morning, Uncles

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• To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Complaining, Married, Born

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• But you should know the love can wear away under the stress of being married. Someone you think you love now, you might start to hate when he couldn't take care of your children, it'd be even worse. Love doesn't always survive under those circumstances.

  Kiera Cass

  Children, Hate, Stress

  Kiera Cass (2014). “The Selection Series 3-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Prince, The Guard”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• When we return, I will put you forward for Ascension,” Charlotte finished. “I will speak out for her case as well,” Gideon said. “After all, I have my father’s place on the Council—his friends will listen to me; they still owe loyalty to our family—and besides, how else can we be married?” “What?” said Gabriel with a wild hand gesture that accidentally flipped the nearest plate onto the floor, where it shattered. “Married?” said Henry. “You’re marrying your father’s friends on the Council? Which of them?

  Cassandra Clare

  Loyalty, Father, Speaks Out

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