170 Married Women Quotes

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Famous Married Women Quotes

A woman is attractive when she is somebody else's wife. — Zimbabwean Proverbs

Women should prioritize their role as wives and mothers over pursuing careers. — Andrew Tate

It's hard making a woman your wife when you've been humpin married women for most of your life — Big Daddy Kane

Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral. — R. Heber Newton

Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son. — John Vianney

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. — Helen Rowland

The wife of a careless man is almost a widow. — Hungarian Proverbs

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. — Bertrand Russell

A good wife and health is a mans best wealth. — Proverbs

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. — Gloria Steinem

It is best for ordinary men to have only one wife ! - Akbar

It is best for ordinary men to have only one wife ! — Akbar

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife. - Queen Victoria

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife. — Queen Victoria

As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger. — Grace Kelly

Short Married Women Quotes

  • A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
  • Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power. — Gloria Steinem
  • Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. — Oscar Wilde
  • Happy wife, happy life. — Paul Orfalea
  • Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife. — Groucho Marx
  • An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband. — Booth Tarkington
  • Get rich if you're looking for a woman, Get pious if you're looking for a wife — Boonaa Mohammed
  • An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. — Sacha Guitry
  • Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases. — Milton Berle
  • A married man with a family will do anything for money. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Top 10 Married Women Quotes

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. — Albert Einstein

Many sisters complain that people don't want to marry them unless they stop wearing hijab. No man is worth your hijab, and a real man wouldn't request you to take it off in the first place. — Omar Suleiman

Indian men are still used to the traditional role given to women; they want intelligent girls for company but not to marry... they have yet to taste and relish the company of mature women. — Amrita Pritam

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. — Albert Einstein

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

There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman. - William Makepeace Thackeray

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman. — William Makepeace Thackeray

A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day. — Sarah Ruhl

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. — Warren Farrell

There's something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that. — Harold Robbins

Married Women Image Quotes

Married women quote I'm usually good about my temper, but all these men trying to control women's bodies are really begi
I'm usually good about my temper, but all these men trying to control women's bodies are really beginning to piss me off.

Married Life Quotes

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. — Rita Rudner

I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother... Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life. — Leila Khaled

One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. — Yiddish Proverbs

Married women quote Girls compete with each other. Women empower one another.
Girls compete with each other. Women empower one another.

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late. — Frank Sinatra

The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal. — Salvador Minuchin

What goes around, comes around. — Willie Nelson

The days were sunny, the nights were star-studded. Indeed married life was strawberries for breakfast and loving all the time. — Marabel Morgan

Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity with their vocation--but their progress will of necessity be but the pace of a hen. — Teresa of Avila

The fairy tales of how life is ‘supposed to be going’ will f*ck up your life. You don’t have to go to university at 18, get a job at 21, buy a house at 30, get married at 35, and have kids at 36. Everyone is completely different, and your path to happiness will be completely different too. — Steven Bartlett

I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. May I be happy and contented whether in the homeland or on the foreign field; whether married or alone, in happiness or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or adversity -- I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. I want it; oh, I want it. — Oswald J. Smith

Married Love Quotes

If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. — William Shakespeare

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. - Stephen Leacock

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. — Stephen Leacock

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. - Zsa Zsa Gabor

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. — Zsa Zsa Gabor

Love is so much better when you're not married. - Maria Callas

Love is so much better when you're not married. — Maria Callas

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. — Jackie Kennedy

It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe. — Roger Williams

The sun will stand as your best man And whistle When you have found the courage To marry forgiveness When you have found the courage to marry Love. — Hafez

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. — James Dobson

Nothing-was more degrading than for a woman to have to marry for a home. Love should be the sole reason. Surely those with a brain-to think, eyes to see and a mind-to reason must realise that the capitalist system must cease and a co-operative system prevail in its place. — Vida Goldstein

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. - Oscar Wilde

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. — Oscar Wilde

Married Couple Quotes

Nikah is a contract that transfers responsibilities. Therefore know the man you're thinking of marrying, and be sure that he is able to take care of you, more than your dad did. Islam empowers women with honor and dignity. Don't settle for anything less. — Nouman Ali Khan

All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman. — Unknown Author

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt. — Earl Wilson

I've just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married. — Barack Obama

I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks. — Gavin MacLeod

It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous. — Ian Mckellen

Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another. — Ruth Graham

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three. — Billie Holiday

The goal of every married couple, indeed, every Christian home, should be to make Christ the Head, the Counselor and the Guide. — Paul Sadler

Thoughtfulness is like a glue that hold a married couple together. Be creative and consistent in finding thoughtful ways to show your spouse that you love them and they are always on your mind. — Dave Willis

Married Man Quotes

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

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight. — Phyllis Diller

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year. — Bette Davis

God has not always answered my prayers. If He had, I would have married the wrong man -- several times! — Ruth Graham

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up. — Barbara Bush

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. — Martha Gellhorn

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die. — Johnny Carson

It's not true that married men live longer than single men. It only seems longer. — Henny Youngman

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. — Zsa Zsa Gabor

Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel is ideology. Ideology is a man-made format of how the world ought to work, and Christians instead believed in the revealing truth Scripture. — Charles Colson

Marriage Life Quotes

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be. — Leo Tolstoy

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. — Robert Fulghum

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. - Ruth Graham

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart — Leo Buscaglia

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. — Nhat Hanh

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. — Oscar Wilde

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute. - Edgar Allan Poe

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute. — Edgar Allan Poe

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. - Kahlil Gibran

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy. - Edgar Allan Poe

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy. — Edgar Allan Poe

Christian Women Quotes

Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian. — Immortal Technique

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most. — Annie Besant

I realized after reading the fourth chapter of St. John's Gospel, that Christ was truly the Divine Saviour he claimed to be, and no one but He could transform and uplift the downtrodden women of India. ... Thus my heart was drawn to the religion of Christ. — Pandita Ramabai

Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth- in a word, to know himself- so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves. — Pope John Paul II

Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants. — Carol P. Christ

Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer. — R. A. Torrey

The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians. — Sarah Moore Grimke

God provides the men and women needed for each generation. — Mildred Cable

And we find from Church history that the primitive Christians thus understood it; for that women did actually speak and preach amongst them we have indisputable proof. — Catherine Booth

The Christian woman should remember that she cannot buy true attractiveness; that radiance which really shines forth in beauty is of the heart and spirit and not of the body. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Grown Women Quotes

Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations. — Joseph Pulitzer

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots. — Johnny Depp

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful. — Pablo Casals

So few grown women like their lives. — Katharine Graham

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane? — Jackie Kennedy

McLaren started as the dream of one man, and it's since grown to encompass the hopes and dreams of more than 2000 men and women. — Ron Dennis

I'm not trying to make myself look like a girl because I'm not a girl anymore. I'm very happy about being a grown woman. — Sharon Stone

Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage? — Meg Greenfield

Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups. — Ben Horowitz

It's kind of like family. I can't say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each other. Everyone's fully grown adult women with lives. — Kathy Valentine

Marriage Advice Quotes

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. — Helen Rowland

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. — Danish Proverbs

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. — Groucho Marx

I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was Always — Red Skelton

A young man should not marry yet, an old man not at all — Greek Proverbs

Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. — Esther Perel

God speaks with authority on every subject including marriage and His advice trumps Oprah's every time. — Kirk Cameron

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers. — Richard Pryor

Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot. — Minnie Pearl

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Older Women Quotes

Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder. — Miuccia Prada

I used to have a wild night with three women until 5am., but I am getting older. In the Olympic village here, I will live it up with five women, but only until 3am. — Alberto Tomba

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom. — Alice Walker

Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time. — Ian Fleming

Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles. — Naveen Andrews

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. — John Berger

Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath. — Gail Sheehy

Reluctant as I am to regard myself as a style icon, I would love to think I could inspire older women to make the most of themselves. — Mary Berry

We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult. — Ian Mckellen

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom. — Alice Walker

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More Married Women Quotes

Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts ... good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt. They're not painful. That's not just with somebody you want to marry, but it's with the friends that you choose. It's with the people you surround yourselves with. — Michelle Obama

From woman, man is born; within woman, man is conceived; to woman he is engaged and married. Woman becomes his friend; through woman, the future generations come. When his woman dies, he seeks another woman; to woman he is bound. So why call her bad? From her, kings are born. From woman, woman is born; without woman, there would be no one at all. — Guru Nanak

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all. — Dorothy L. Sayers

It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano. — Arthur Rubinstein

As a married woman, I know perfectly well what six or eight inches looks like, so it's easy to make a good estimate. This mental measurement makes planting time much more interesting than it might be otherwise. — Cassandra Danz

American women are so fortunate. When I got married, all I wanted in the world was a dryer so I didn't have to hang up my diapers. And now women have paper diapers and all sorts of conveniences in the home. And it is the man and the technology that has made the home such a pleasant place for women to be. — Phyllis Schlafly

I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don't see much of a distinction beyond that. — Joe Biden

Mothers and unmarried women and married women, they're all welcomed in the Trump White House, and he's made that very clear to me. — Kellyanne Conway

It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her. — Bette Davis

[The married woman is] is a bonded slave, who takes her master's name, her master's bread, and serves her master's passion; [and] who passes through the ordeal of pregnancy and the throes of travail at his dictation. — Voltairine de Cleyre

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him. — Cher

Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married. — Errol Flynn

At another house two women learned very fast; I say women, but one was a girl about twelve or thirteen, already married, however. There was a little child about three years old. My sister asked, 'Who is the True God's Son?' The little thing replied, in a very sweet voice, 'Jesus.' — Lottie Moon

Whenever I see an unmarried woman carrying a child, my first response is one of respect. I know she could have taken the quick fix without anyone knowing, but she chose instead to let an innocent child live. — Randy Alcorn

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. — H. L. Mencken

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels. — Nicholas Sparks

There is little reason left for society to respect women as it once did. Women get knocked up. They don't marry. They have abortions. They go to bars. They get knocked up again. — Laura Schlessinger

No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer. — Wendy Wasserstein

. . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of their lives. They know they will have to work, whether they are married or single; work to them, unlike to white women, is not a liberating goal, but rather an imposed lifelong necessity. — Gerda Lerner

Never marry a beautiful woman. A beautiful woman will leave you. An ugly woman will leave you, too, but so what? — Rick Majerus

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't. — George Bernard Shaw

Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic. I really wanted to be in love, get married, have kids and buy a wood-paneled station wagon for the family. But it didn't work out, and, boy, it wrecked it! — Jamie Foxx

[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Women are lining up to marry me. Legend has it, I know how to do it. — Silvio Berlusconi

I'm sure no intelligent white person, in his or her right white mind, want black men and women marrying their white sons and daughters and in return introducing their grandchildren to half brown, kinky haired black people. — Muhammad Ali

Because orgasmic sex would lead to women's autonomy, knowing who you are and what we want: Women are not going to follow what some jackass tells us we must do. Not all women are going to get married, be monogamous and raise a family. It will destroy the current social structure based on a sexual double standard that we're currently living under. — Betty Dodson

Being a housewife, makes women sick.It may therefore be that married women say they are happy because they are sick.To be happy in a relationship which imposes so many impediments on her, as traditional marriage does, women must be slightly mentally ill — Jessie Bernard

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women. — Marilyn Monroe

The well-educated young woman of 1950 will blend art and sciences in a way we do not dream of; the science will steady the art andthe art will give charm to the science. This young woman will marry--yes, indeed, but she will take her pick of men, who will by that time have begun to realize what sort of men it behooves them to be. — Ellen Swallow Richards

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