Married Man Quotes - Page 2

• I don't sleep with happily married men.

  Britt Ekland

  Women, Memorable, Sleep

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

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• Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

  Gary Becker

  Marriage, Children, Fighting

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• To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

  Bruce Feirstein

  Men, Wife, Want

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• When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.

  Alice Hamilton

  Home, Men, Ideas

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• Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

  Thomas Fuller

  Husband, Men, Married

  Thomas Fuller (1840). “The Holy State and the Profane State”, p.172

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• Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Art, Lying

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.66, Lulu.com

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• Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Married, Bachelors

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Wilde Complete Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of No Importance; Salome; The Duchess of Padua; Vera, or the Nihilists; A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane”, p.322, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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• A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch.

  Robert Breault

  Marriage, Dog, Men

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• Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Couple

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• By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

  Samuel Johnson

  Marriage, Men, Wife

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.40

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• I had to make a living. I was a married man. I had a wife. I had a home. I had children. I had to make a living. That's the common pursuit of every man.

  Jack Kirby

  Children, Home, Men

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes-it liberates young women to pursue married men.

  George Gilder

  Men, Married, Young

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• When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Men, Blue

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. [902]

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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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• A married man turns his staffe into a stake.

  George Herbert

  Men, Married, Stakes

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.333

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• Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, Wedding, Husband

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.126, Penguin

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• I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

  George Jean Nathan

  Girl, Running, Fall

  George Jean Nathan (1952). “The world of George Jean Nathan”

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• Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

  Joanne Woodward

  Cute Love, Family, Beauty

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• There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Marriage, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.97, Wordsworth Editions

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• There's nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.

  John Steinbeck

  Beer, Taste, Firsts

  "The Short Novels of John Steinbeck".

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• If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Writing, Men, Wife

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.3

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• Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

  George Will

  Marriage, Funny Love, Definitions

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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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• Every married man who wants peace in the relationship, should learn the trick to avoid that one question - 'How is the food?'

  Emraan Hashmi

  Men, Want, Married

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