Married Life Quotes - Page 2

• I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

  Jane Austen

  Sex, Believe, Mean

  1818 Persuasion, ch.23.

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• Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

  Richard Ford

  Marriage, Facts, Married

  1986 The Sportswriter, ch.5.

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• Married life is an existence with bars around it.

  Al Goldstein

  Bars, Married, Life Is

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• For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Baseball, Children

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• There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.

  Samuel Richardson

  Giving Up, Married, Matrimony

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• Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

  Novalis

  Men, Literature, Married

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• The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.

  Thornton Wilder

  Life, Marriage, Fighting

  The Matchmaker act 2 (1954)

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• I tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Fun, Feel Better, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason.

  Ariel Gore

  Married, Reason, Walking Out

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• it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Want, Firsts, Married

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “Where There's a Will/The Case of Jennie Brice/The After House”, p.61, Essential Library

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• There's no healthy life possible without some sensual feeling between the husband and wife, but there's nothing in the world more awful than married life when it's the only common ground.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Sex, Husband, Wife

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”

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• The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.

  Mason Cooley

  Marriage, Greek, Married

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• I am not convinced that either the position, rewards or achievements have been worth the cost. My personal and married life and child raising have surely suffered from the professional attainments I have achieved.

  Joanne Simpson

  Life, Children, Achievement

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• If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . . . she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.

  Ned Rorem

  Strong, Book, Artist

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• The baggage in your individual life will weigh down your married life. Do something about it.

  Ted Lowe

  Baggage, Married, Individual

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• To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

  Agatha Christie

  Men, Thinking, Admiration

  Agatha Christie (2010). “An Autobiography”, p.66, HarperCollins UK

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• I was afraid of marriage. I had the impression married life would take up all my time. I saw myself drowning in visits and parties. No freedom.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Party, Saws, Married

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• A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.

  Stendhal

  Marriage, Heart, Boredom

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.168, World Classic

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• Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Disappointment, Fall, Taken

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.7, University of Chicago Press

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• ... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,--if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.

  Hortense Odlum

  Marriage, Disappointment, Business

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• I counseled a 75-year-old married, bi-sexual man who was having a gay affair and was not having sex with his wife to continue his secret life because that seemed like the kindest thing to do. But a young woman embarking on married life, hoping to start a family with her husband, needs to at least know he's already living a double life.

  Emily Yoffe

  Husband, Gay, Men

  Source: www.slate.com

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• There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.

  Muriel Spark

  Divorce, Ideas, Upset

  Muriel Spark (2018). “A Good Comb: The Sayings of Muriel Spark”, p.17, New Directions Publishing

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• Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations.

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

  Jail, Married, Prison

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• Not listening is probably the commonest unkindness of married life, and one that creates - more devastatingly than an eternity of forgotten birthdays and misguided Christmas gifts - an atmosphere of not loving and not caring.

  Judith Viorst

  Marriage, Caring, Atmosphere

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• The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Boredom, Overcoming, Married

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

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