88 Unmarried Quotes

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Famous Unmarried Quotes

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

He who remains unmarried impairs the divine image. — Rabbi Akiva

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life. — Richard Crashaw

Marriage functions best when both partners remain somewhat unmarried. — Claudia Cardinale

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

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

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

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

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. — Oscar Wilde

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

It is easy to get divorced for a bachelor. — Turkish Proverbs

No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around. — Bessie Smith

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

For everyone, whatever his state--single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love. — Josemaria Escriva

Wedlock is a padlock. — John Ray

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married. - Elizabeth I

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married. — Elizabeth I

Short Unmarried Quotes

  • My mind is pretty made up that life for Cathy Freeman will be as an unmarried woman from now on. — Cathy Freeman
  • Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community. — Brigham Young
  • The world is filled with unmarried marriage counselors. — Charles M. Schulz
  • Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other. — Myrtle Reed
  • A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman. — Sol Wachtler
  • I would never give artificial birth control to an unmarried person. — Judie Brown
  • Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic. — John Whiting
  • Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not. — Dinah Shore
  • Miss, n. A title which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. — Ambrose Bierce
  • Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women. — Gloria Steinem

Unmarried Image Quotes

Married And Unmarried Quotes

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

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink. — Angela Carter

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

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not. — Dinah Shore

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

Ironically, survey after survey shows that married men are happier and healthier than unmarried men. Oh, and they also have more sex. — Michael Kimmel

Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites. — Diane Watson

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

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

Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing - no convention - can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of the right of the child . . . the unmarried mother should be granted by society the same reverence and regard as the married mother. — Ben Lindsey

Being Unmarried Quotes

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

Perhaps there will come a time when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with. — Caroline Norton

According to a new study, women in satisfying marriages are less likely to develop cardiovascular diseases than unmarried women. So don't worry, lonely women, you'll be dead soon. — Tina Fey

The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more comfortable to her than the day, with whom her life is so entwined that the wrench of parting leaves a torn void never entirely healed or filled. — Charlotte Mary Yonge

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

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of. — Julie Walters

We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged to refuse an offer ofmarriage from any man who is not an advocate of their emancipation. — Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now. — Angelina Grimke

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More Unmarried Quotes

It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancées whom they have never seen. — Enoch Powell

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

Most unmarried Somali girls who got pregnant committed suicide. I knew of one girl in Mogadishu who poured a can of gasoline over herself in the living room, with everyone there, and burned herself alive. Of course, if she hadn't done this, her father and brothers would probably have killed her anyway. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I am firmly of the opinion that a large number of unmarried men, over the age of 24 years, is a dangerous element in any community. — George Q. Cannon

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

Children thrive in a variety of family forms; they develop normally with single parents, with unmarried parents, with multiple caretakers in a communal setting, and with traditional two-parent families. What children require is loving and attentive adults, not a particular family type. — Sandra Scarr

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

The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong. — Rick Santorum

Rohan, one of us is an unmarried man with superior mathematical abilities and no prospects for the evening. The other is a confirmed lecher in an amorous mood, with a willing and nubile young wife waiting at home. Who do you think should do the damned account books?" And, with a nonchalant wave, St. Vincent had left the office. — Lisa Kleypas

I was deliberately trying to express how possible it might be for unmarried men and adults not blessed with biological children to become "fathers of choice." In an old-fashioned, traditional world, this might not matter. But I think that it's probably going to become terribly relevant as time goes on. — Mamoru Hosoda

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

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

In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women. — Ginny Brown-Waite

A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady - the only kind to be in a time of increasing classlessness - could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases, unmarried mothers, and/or birth control with impunity. But never by so much as the shadow of a look should she acknowledge her own experience with the Facts of Life. — Virgilia Peterson

There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Children, those who are unmarried should conserve their vital energy by maintaining celibacy. To turn what we gain by this in to ojas (vitality), we also need to do spiritual practice. With increase in ojas, our intelligence, memory, health and beauty will also increase. We will gain lasting mental quietude. — Mata Amritanandamayi

I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung. — Kate Smith

I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike 'Aida,' parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges. — Langston Hughes

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