Quotes on Being Married

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

I’m not like the rest of you; I never made any plans about what I’d do when I grew up; I never thought of being married, as you did. I couldn’t seem to imagine myself anything but stupid little Beth, trotting about at home, of no use anywhere but there. I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

If we be married to Christ, and He be jealous of us, depend upon it this jealous husband will let none touch His spouse.

It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions

And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes. Then you'll see it. Their eyes look happy and sad at the same time, but unexcited by anything, shifting easily off to the side as if they've already seen most of what there is. Married eyes.

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

If I get married, I want to be very married.