Being Married Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• Kiss me, Kate, we shall be married o'Sunday

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sunday, Kissing

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 2, sc. 1, l. 318

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• A lot of people [are] saying civil union," Faried told KDVR. "I don't like it being called that because I can get married to a female and it can be called a marriage. Why can't a female be married to a female and male be married to a male and it be called a marriage? You still have the same thing, same love and happiness.

  Kenneth Faried

  Gay, People, Happiness And Love

  "Kenneth Faried, Denver Nuggets Star, Supports Gay Marriage And His Two Moms", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2013.

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• I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.

  Francesca Annis

  Religious, Hate, Desire

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• What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New 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

  Bible, Believe, Religion

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• I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.

  Larry McMurtry

  Years, Listening, Twenties

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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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• If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond.

  Catfish Hunter

  Cancer, Average, League

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• I think all priests should be married.

  Denis Leary

  Thinking, Married, Should

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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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• 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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• Did he happen to select a color too?" "Blue." "Blue?" Victoria burst out, prepared to do physical battle for white. Madame nodded, her finger thoughtfully pressed to her lips, her own hand plunked upon her waist. "Yes, blue. Ice blue. He said you are glorious in that color-'a titian-haired angel,' he said" Victoria abruptly decided ice blue was a lovely color to be married in.

  Judith McNaught

  Angel, Blue, Hands

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• I'm over the Oscar thing. I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive. I've seen it.

  Bill Murray

  Ambition, Desire, Acting

  "Bill Murray: 'I know how to be sour'" by Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2003.

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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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• People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him it was illegal for them to be married in several states in this country. So if we start making it okay that certain people can marry and other people can't, it's a slippery slope of civil rights.

  Kerry Washington

  Country, Gay, Thinking

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• You could be married and bored or single and lonely. Ain't no happiness nowhere.

  Chris Rock

  Lonely, Being Single, Bored

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• Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

  Ruth Rendell

  Self, Talking, Listening

  "Ruth Rendell: In quotes". www.theguardian.com. May 02, 2015.

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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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• I certainly support the right of the gay brothers and sisters to come together. I believe true love can take a number of different forms. If they choose to be married that's fine, but the important thing is I hope they find love

  Cornel West

  Brother, Believe, Gay

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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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• This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it...Plus, being married and monogamous, it's the closest thing I can do to having sex without getting in trouble for it...The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Sex, Years, Rocks

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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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• Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

  Jackie Collins

  Book, Long, Interesting

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• It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.

  August Strindberg

  Marriage, Angel, Thinking

  "Plays".

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