Anonymous
I married my husband for life, not for lunch.
Astor Lady 1879-1964
I married beneath me. All women do.
Austen Jane 1775-1817
Persuasion
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
Borge Victor
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
Bronté Charlotte 1816-1855
Jane Eyre
Reader, I married him.
Burton Robert 1577-1640
The Anatomy of Melancholy
One was never married, and that's his hell: another is, and that's his plague.
Byron Lord 1788-1824
Don Juan
Married, charming, chaste, and twenty-three.
Corelli Marie 1855-1924
I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoom, and a cat that comes home late at night.
Cunningham James Vincent 1911-1985
Epigrams
I married in my youth a wife.
She was my own, my very first.
She gave the best years of her life.
I hope nobody gets the worst.
Dewel Duane
Any married man should forget his mistakes - no use two people remembering the same thing.
Disraeli Benjamin 1804-1881
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
Gabor Zsa Zsa
A man is incomplete until he has married.
Then he's finished.
Gabor Zsa Zsa
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
Gay John 1685-1732
The Beggar's Opera
Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married?
Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774
The Good-Natured Man
You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast; but we, that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.
Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774
The Vicar of Wakefield
I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population.
Keats John 1795-1821
Letter to Fanny Brawne
I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a poem and to be given away by a novel.
Lindbergh Anne Morrow
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
MacNeice Louis 1907-1963
‚Les Syphides'
So they were married - to be the more together -
And found they were never again so much together,
Divided by the morning tea,
By the evening paper,
By children and tradesmen's bills.
Maugham W. Somerset 1874-1965
The Circle
When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.
Mencken H.L. 1880-1956
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd married too.
Mencken H.L. 1880-1956
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.
Mill John Stuart 1806-1873
The Subjection of Women
If married life were all that it might be expected to be, looking to the laws alone, society would be a hell upon earth.
Monkhouse William Cosmo 1840-1901
Nonsense Rhymes
There once was an old man of Lyme
Who married three wives at a time,
When asked ‚Why a third?'
He replied, ‚One's absurd!
And bigamy, Sir, is a crime!'
Parkinson Northcote 1909-1993
Parkinson's Law
Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
Pepys Samuel 1633-1703
Diary
Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
Proverbs and Sayings
Chinese
Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.
Rostand Jean 1894-1977
Le Mariage
A married couple are well suited when both parteners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
Shakespeare Wiliam 1564-1616
Much Ado About Nothing
When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
Shakespeare Wiliam 1564-1616
All's Well that Ends Well
A young man married is a man that's marred.
Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950
Man and Superman
What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950
Man and Superman
It is woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
Sheridan Richard Brinsley 1751-1816
The School for Scandal
You had no taste when you married me.
Sterne Laurence 1713-1768
Tristram Shandy
My brother Toby, quoth she, is going to be married to Mrs Wadman.
Then he will never, quoth my father, lie diagonally in his bed again as long as he lives.
Stevenson Robert Louis 1850-1894
Virginibus Puerisque
To marry is to domesticate the Recording Angel.
Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide, but to be good.
Thurber James 1894-1961
A lady of forty-seven who has been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: „Love is what you've been through with somebody."
Trollope Anthony 1815-1882
Phineas Redux
What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
Ward Artemus 1834-1867
Artemus Ward's Lecture ´Brigham Young's...'
He is dreadfully married. He's the most married man I ever saw in my life.
Wilde Oscar 1854-1900
The Importance of Being Earnest
In married life three is company and two none.
Wilder Thornton 1897-1975
The Merchant of Yonkers
The fights are the best part of married life. The rest is merely so-so.
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