Unmarried Quotes

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  If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Marriage, Funny Love, Wedding

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

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• It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Relationship, Marriage, Men

  Man and Superman (1903) act 2

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• People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might have worn the knees of their trousers out proposing to girls who rejected them or that a girl might deliberately stay unmarried.

  Jilly Cooper

  Girl, People, Choices

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• Most unmarried people have no idea what it takes to make a marriage work; they grossly underestimate the price people have to pay to build long-term, mutually satisfying relationships. And they fail to understand that the only people with the strength to pay that price are those who have plumbed the depths of their relationship with God, and have dealt with their own brokenness.

  Bill Hybels

  Ideas, Long, People

  Bill Hybels, Lynne Hybels (1993). “Fit to be Tied: Making Marriage Last a Lifetime”, p.39, Zondervan

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• Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Men, Age, Our Society

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.16, Vintage

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• there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.

  Iris Murdoch

  People, Way, Moral

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.38, Penguin

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• Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.

  Myrtle Reed

  Sorry, Women, Feelings

  Myrtle Reed (2012). “The Spinster Book”, p.32, tredition

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• The world is filled with unmarried marriage counselors.

  Charles M. Schulz

  World, Counselor, Filled

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• Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

  Brigham Young

  Marriage, Men, Community

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• He who remains unmarried impairs the divine image.

  Rabbi Akiva

  Divine, Remains

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• It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Men, Sphinx, Riddle

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• I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister's husband or brother's wife! stuck away in some little mouse-trap of a room encouraged by one in-law to visit another little birdlike women without any nest eating the crust of humility all their life! Is that the future that we've mapped out for ourselves?

  Tennessee Williams

  Brother, Husband, Humility

  Tennessee Williams (1996). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.12, Heinemann

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• Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

  Tim Allen

  Jobs, Children, Men

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• I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.

  Dan Dailey

  Inspirational, Military, Patriotic

  "The Marines' Bulletin", Vol. 1, Issues 1-3, 1918.

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• Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.

  Karl Kraus

  Marriage, Animal, Law

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, America, Black

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• I don't know! Nobody has ever known. Why would Jesus have remained unmarried if he had known the secret? He knew the secret of the kingdom of God, but he did not know the secret of remaining happy in marriage. He remained unmarried. Mahavira, Lao Tzu Chuang Tzu, they all remained unmarried for the simple reason that there is no secret; otherwise these people would have discovered it. They could discover the ultimate - marriage is not such a big thing, it is very shallow - they even fathomed God, but they could not fathom marriage.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Jesus, Simple

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• As unmarried business women we must constantly use our opportunities in business in such a way that we are prepared for the marriage which may be ours tomorrow.

  Hortense Odlum

  Marriage, Business, Opportunity

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• The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.

  Helen Fisher

  Jobs, War, Numbers

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• A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

  Sol Wachtler

  Feet, Doe, Body

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• I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.

  Ben Lindsey

  Mother, Demand, Sacred

  "Philippines Free Press", Volume 62, Issues 46-52, (p. 44), 1969.

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• Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Judging, Merit

  Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Lucan 3

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• One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.

  Eleanor Porter

  Mother, Husband, Tired

  Eleanor H. Porter (2008). “Mary Marie (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.38, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Children, Mean

  Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Punch 1

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• Marriage functions best when both partners remain somewhat unmarried.

  Claudia Cardinale

  Partners, Function

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