Married Quotes - Page 32

• The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Eulogy, Poet, Satire

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.14

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• I'd almost say it's the worries that make married folks sacred to each other.

  Edith Wharton

  Worry, Sacred, Folks

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Gods Arrive”, p.278, Edith Wharton

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• When my husband Edgar and I were courting, he said he couldn't wait to have a baby. It was only after we were married that he changed his mind and decided that I should have the baby.

  Joan Rivers

  Baby, Husband, Should Have

  Joan Rivers (1978). “Having a Baby Can Be a Scream”, Avon Books

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• I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Sex, Gender, Consolation

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.143

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• Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

  Honore de Balzac

  Happiness, Marriage, Couple

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• A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.

  Honore de Balzac

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Wife

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• Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

  Honore de Balzac

  Couple, Husband, Wife

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• An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

  Honore de Balzac

  Kings, Husband, Wife

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• Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae getting married. I presume they think it very exciting and important. We don't.

  Rose Macaulay

  Thinking, Water, Important

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• And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untidier than I am?

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Home, Men, Order

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• The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.

  Joseph Addison

  Holiday, Age, Return

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• Men who can eat anything they want and not gain weight should do it out of sight of the women they're married to.

  Rita Rudner

  Men, Sight, Weight

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• Commitment is different in males and females. In females it is a desire to get married and raise a family. In males it means not picking up other women while out with one's girlfriend.

  Rita Rudner

  Girlfriend, Mean, Commitment

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• My cousin just got married for the totally wrong reasons. She married a man for money. She wasn't real subtle about it. Instead of calling him her fiancé, she kept calling him her financee.

  Rita Rudner

  Cousin, Real, Men

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• get married with the feeling it is going to last. Not like the bride I know who doubled the wedding cake recipe and froze one.

  Phyllis Diller

  Cake, Feelings, Recipes

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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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• Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to get married.

  Erma Bombeck

  Bedroom, Adolescence, Shows

  Erma Bombeck, Bil Keane (2011). “Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!”, p.14, Fawcett

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• Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.

  Gloria Steinem

  Way, Traditional, Seems

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• The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Children, Ties

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.493

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• To be married is to be neither alone nor together.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Together, Being Married

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.97, New Victoria Publishers

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• A married man turns his staffe into a stake.

  George Herbert

  Men, Stakes, Turns

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

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• A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman--a married man needs only an excuse.

  Helen Rowland

  Inspiration, Men, Making Love

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• When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Girl, Poverty, Dolls

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• You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.

  Agatha Christie

  Skins, Ifs

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie, five Miss Marple mysteries”

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• Like all successful politicians I married above myself.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Successful, Politician

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