Quotes About Married Couples

#1. 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

#2. I think all married couples tend to run things by each other in every capacity and we're not different to them.

Isla Fisher

#3. Dude, you guys are closer than most married couples I know. Or you were before you decided to go and fuck with it.

Katee Robert

#4. I study long-married couples and decide that wives are like bras: sometimes the most matronly are the most supportive.

Helen Ellis

#5. If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. I am very proud to have kept my commitment to introduce the married couples' tax allowance. I think it will prove very popular. I think it's absolutely right that we recognise marriage in the tax system properly, and I would like to see that expanded.

David Cameron

#7. The Church, in her wisdom, maintains the distinction between engaged and married couples
they are not the same, today's culture and society have become rather indifferent to the delicate and serious nature of this passage.

Pope Francis

#8. Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.

Wilfrid Sheed

#9. I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.

Gertrude Stein

#10. Whenever I go out with other married couples, I like to bring along a single crackhead. Just to spice things up.

Chris Rock

#11. Oliver Cromwell banned kissing on Sundays---even for married couples---on pain of a prison sentence.

Mitchell Symons

#12. Laws of attraction could build a strong relationship among married couples or friends.

Saaif Alam

#13. We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box.

Erica Jong

#14. Married couples, may we never forget that when attacks come the grace of the sacrament is eternally stronger than we are.

Mark Hart

#15. Married couples who learn to work wisely through their conflict tend to be much closer, more trusting, more intimate, and enjoy a much deeper connection afterwards.

Alex Kendrick

#16. Has it ever occurred to you that married couples endure watching their spouses grow old and feeble and senile all the time? That it's part of marriage? A hard part, to be sure, but not so hard that one just gives up on the institution altogether.

Sabrina Jeffries

#17. I think we explored the further reaches of 'for better or for worse' than some other married couples.

Mary Archer

#18. All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

#19. I'm so sick of seeing these movies where married couples are just cuddling on the couch and caressing each other's faces.

Leslie Mann

#20. All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: We worked hard at it.

Randy Pausch

#21. Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty.

Jerry Weller

#22. Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.

Melissa Bean

#23. I'm thinking of doing a marital comedy for one of the studios, but I want it to be so painful that it'll have a profound effect on married couples who see it together.

Harold Ramis

#24. If a married couple with children has fifteen minutes of uninterrupted, non-logistical, non-problem-solving talk every day, I would put them in the top 5% of all married couples. It's an extraordinary achievement.

William J Doherty

#25. How many married couples do you know who met over accounting books in a Starbucks?

David Schweikert

#26. And I suppose that's where we differ from other married couples.
We spend a lot of time in the buff.

Wendy Higgins

#27. Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.

Edward Abbey

#28. What the teachers understand, students never understand and in the paper what we want them to understand they never understand so, apparently, students and teachers are like withstanding married couples with misunderstanding.

Himmilicious

#29. 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

#30. In truth, they seemed more content and faithful than many officially married couples I have seen since. Our

Patrick Rothfuss

#31. My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don't have one.

Robert Kiyosaki

#32. On not crowding another person in a relationship: Next time you're at a cemetary, look around at all the headstones. They're side by side. Even married couples. Nobody wants a plot on top of another person's plot. Why? ... Even when they're dead, people still love their own space.

Kristen Tracy

#33. More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit.

Tim Murphy

#34. SOFIA: We're not meant to be good and perfect. You know who lives longer? Married couples who enjoy under the sheets time alone. Enjoy the fun, but understand there must be an end goal.

Billy London

#35. If you are a single parent, make friends with others in similar situations and develop friendships with married couples. Counsel with your priesthood leaders. Let them know of your needs and wants. Single parenthood is understood by the Lord.

Ezra Taft Benson

#36. How many married couples who stay married until one of them dies can honestly say that they weren't terribly bored at times?

Holly Chamberlin

#37. We sat down and I felt as if we were one of those rich married couples, more separated than united by their dinner table.
-pg 46

Albert Sanchez Pinol

#38. To believe that one, or even three, mates can supply all the things one needs from one's friends is as stupid as believing married couples must do everything together.

Julie Burchill

#39. Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess.

Diana Trilling

#40. Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings.

Dave Barry

#41. That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.

Bill Cosby

#42. So they became friends, the way old married couples often do, and enjoyed the tender loyalty that awaits the lucky on the other side of passion, without ever living the passion itself.

Diane Setterfield

#43. There is no magic in marriage. If there were, married couples would never desire to seperate. But they do.

George Bernard Shaw

#44. The kind of issues that we face as detectives are similar to what the other married couples out there are facing, or the brother and sister, or the brother and brother are facing. Relationships are universal.

Michael Ealy

#45. 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

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

Honore De Balzac

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

Earl Wilson

#48. Marriage doesn't put an end to one's ability to serve God and bring him glory. In fact, I've seen many married couples who have done more for God together than was possible as individuals.

Jody Hedlund

#49. Married couples resemble
a pair of scissors,
often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them

Sydney Smith

#50. Are there any books of that sort nowadays? The only ones I ever see mentioned in the papers are about married couples who find life grey, and can't stick each other at any price.

P.G. Wodehouse

#51. So we fell asleep holding hands. If married couples got to do this all the time, shit if I could understand how there were ever divorces, or even fights.

John Barnes

#52. My wife and I just started listening to the late Beethoven Quartets together, an activity I recommend for all married couples, but that doesn't really mean that I'm finished reading.

Clive James

#53. Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.

Sydney J. Harris

#54. As I looked and looked, the living face became visible in the dead, the young in the old. This is what must happen to old married couples, I thought: the young man is preserved in the old one for her, the beauty and grace of the young woman stay fresh in the old one for him.

Bernhard Schlink

#55. Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

George Bernard Shaw

#56. The next day she came to my room and gave me a pamphlet to read. Information in it implied that the union between married couples was, while performed by men, to be endured by women. Meanwhile,

Kathleen Grissom

#57. Divorce is marital welfare.It's just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn't do enough research before they got married.

Stephen Colbert

#58. It breaks my heart when couples focus more on being wed than being married. Two become one doesn't happen without work, humility, and sacrifice.

Mark Hart

#59. Some couples are married because they fell in love. Some are married because the woman fell pregnant.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#60. between 2005 and 2012 more than one third of couples who got married in the United States met through an online dating site. Online dating was the single biggest way people met their spouses. Bigger than work, friends, and school combined.

Aziz Ansari

#61. ...half the pleasures of life [are] derived from the little struggles and small privations that one had to endure at the beginning of one's married life. Such struggles [are] generally occasioned by want of means, and often helped to make loving couples stand together all the firmer.

George Grossmith

#62. A lot of Hollywood couples get married young and wind up growing out of their relationship.

Patti Stanger

#63. What an age do we live in, when 'tis a miracle if in ten couples that are married, two of them live so as not to publish to the world that they cannot agree.

Dorothy Osborne

#64. ... having been with Boaz for so long that she could predict every one of his moves, their sex life was more like a race to see who came first.

Molly Antopol

#65. I'm also for gay marriage, because I say they have every right to be just as miserable as the rest of us. Love is bigger than government. And Texas, by the way, has a very progressive law about gay couples adopting kids. We just won't let them get married. So that's not common sense.

Kinky Friedman

#66. Getting married has certainly made a massive difference to my own life. So I am committed to giving support for family finances and having the right policies for work-life balance that make it easier for couples to have a rich family life.

Gordon Brown

#67. When a couple announces they are getting married, far too often the first response is "let me see the ring." Really? Your first concern after two people have decided to spend the rest of their lives together as husband and wife is how fancy the ring is?

Carlos Wallace

#68. As a dancer, I know couples that have stayed married but separated to dance on different continents. Dance in general, but ballet in particular, is such a finite career. You can't do it later in life, and it's something that I think a dancer has to have some selfishness to fulfill.

Amanda Schull

#69. Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.

Dan Savage

#70. There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - don't want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.

Karl Lagerfeld

#71. I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then not so fine, and then it was a blunder. That happens all the time.

Fred Couples

#72. Better be a desperate single with many options than a desperate married with no option.

Amen Muffler

#73. Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one of you cracks or stops existing.

Jacob M. Appel

#74. Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.

John Whiting

#75. I think that, on some level, everybody lives vicariously through couples who are getting married.

Amy Dickinson

#76. The relationship was perfect, but I hated everything about the person I became.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#77. In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four.

Thomas Malthus

#78. Most couples get married because it's time, not because they're in love. They might have money issues, parental pressure, or they're simply tired of being alone - so they pick Mr. Good Enough and tie the knot.

H.M. Ward

#79. Massachusetts became the first state to marry gay couples, though lawmakers say allowing gay couples to get married raises a lot of questions. You know, such as: does that best man invite both guys to the bachelor party?

Jay Leno

#80. Divorce is a marital welfare. It's just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn't do enough research before they got married. How is that our fault? Don't drag down my country's statistics just because you ran off and got hitched before you ever saw each other in a bad mood.

Stephen Colbert

#81. I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

Barack Obama

#82. Monsieur Lerebour was short, round and jovial, with the joviality of a shopkeeper who liked to do himself well. His wife, who was thin, self-willed and perpetually discontented, had still not succeeded in overcoming her husband's good humour.

Guy De Maupassant

#83. Couples tend to think that being single is always singular. Singles tend to believe that being a couple is always copulatory.

Raheel Farooq

#84. There's a McDonalds in Hong Kong & they're offering couples the opportunity to get married. You can have a McWedding.

Chelsea Handler

#85. There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples; some of them call themselves married, some don't, but their friends treat them as married. Anybody who doesn't like it just doesn't hang out with them.

Orson Scott Card

#86. People often say that when couples are married for a long time, they start to look alike. I don't believe that. But I do believe their sentences start to look alike.

David Levithan

#87. We all get one life to live here. It's 2012, and for gay and lesbian couples who are in love, not to be able to be married is so absurd.

Howard Stern

#88. The house is big and sturdy and charming. I know without being told that children have been born here and couples have married here, and families have argued and loved and laughed beneath the gabled roof. It's a place to feel safe in. A home.

Lisa Kleypas

#89. Personally, I'd be delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of assault weapons.

Glenn Reynolds

#90. It's funny when you get married, you do find other couples to hang out with.

Jennifer Lopez

#91. I think there's tremendous significance and opportunity in Americans seeing legally married gay couples treated with respect in our nation's capital.

Evan Wolfson

#92. Being "married for a mission" can revitalize a lot of marriages in which the partners think they suffer from a lack of compatibility; my suspicion is that many of these couples actually suffer from a lack of purpose.

Gary L. Thomas

#93. No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy.

Tim Kaine

#94. Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples. The world all in couples, each couple in its own little house, watching its own little interests and stewing in its own little privacy - it's the most repulsive thing in the world. One's got to get rid of the exclusiveness of married love.

Susan Sontag

#95. Happy marriages are alive and well. The cries of their demise have been highly overrated, and couples happily married do indeed exist.

Fawn Weaver

#96. I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month.

Sally Kirkland