Married Couples Quotes

“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, The Biology of Luck

“I thought he said you weren’t drunk if you could find your arse with both hands.”

He eyed me appraisingly. “I hate to tell ye, Sassenach, but it’s not your arse ye’ve got hold of—it’s mine.”

“That’s all right,” I assured him. “We’re married. Share and share alike. One flesh; the priest said so.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn

“Beds are not the right place for reading, watching TV, discussing daily issues or worrying about the future.
Beds are only good for two things that always go together:
Sleeping and pleasure!”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“What is it about ye, Sassenach, I wonder?” he said conversationally, eyes still fixed on Myers.

“What iswhatabout me?”

He turned then, and gave me a narrow eye. “What it is that makes every man ye meet want to take off his breeks within five minutes of meetin’ ye.”

“Well, if you don’t know, my dear,” I said, “no one does.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn

“The only reason you brought me here tonight was because you thought it would appease me. Throw the vicious dog a bone and it’ll soon be eating out of your hand!”

“More like vicious bitch,” he muttered beneath his breath and when he realised that she had heard him, he shrugged unrepentantly. “If you’re going to be using animal metaphors, you may as well get it right.”

“Fine, I’m a bitch… whatever!” She knew her response was childish but she was feeling more than a little put out by the situation.”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“Quick dinner with... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We talked about her work as a microbiologist and the behaviour of the epithingalingie under the influence of cholesterol. She's fascinated by cholesterol. Says it's very beautiful: bright yellow. She says Ang is wholly uninterested. He has no idea what she does.
I check this out for myself. 'What does Jane do?' I ask.
'Science,' he says vaguely.”
― Emma Thompson, The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

“My mother repressed a shudder of apprehension, for, being more rapid in perception than my father, she grew alarmed on his account over things which only began to vex him a moment later. Whatever might cause him annoyance was first noticed by her, just as bad news of France is always known abroad sooner than among ourselves.”
― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

“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, Selected Short Stories

“Kiss me goodbye.”
“I already kissed you goodbye this morning. Twice.”
“Third time lucky.” He planted his lips firmly on hers. “I’ll be in touch, Lieutenant.” He strolled out. Even before he hit the sidewalk a sleek black car pulled up to the curb, and a driver hopped out to open the door.
Like magic, Eve thought.
“I’d like to be in touch with him. Anytime. Anywhere. Any way.”
Eve turned her head slowly. “Did you say something, Peabody?”
“Who, sir, me, sir? Nope. Absolutely not.”
“Good.”
― J.D. Robb, Big Jack

“Marriage, it's like roulette: Sometimes one wins, often one loses. Even if you're very in love, it can still go bad.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Embroideries

“When dealing with a married couple one can never be neutral. The hot magnetic power of each one's view of the other makes the spectator sway.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“If you're really, really lucky you'll meet somebody that you feel at home with. And if that feeling never goes away, if the two of you are truly helpful and beneficial to each other, then you should get married. Maybe. At least for tax purposes.”
― Noah Van Sciver, The Lizard Laughed

“... 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, The UnAmericans: Stories

“Marriage is more. Don't settle for less.”
― Glenn T. Stanton, The Ring Makes All the Difference

“Marriage in its most idealistic context is one person spontaneously giving all of them to the other person, and the other person becoming all of them. Marriage should be a period of happiness based upon mutual respect and adoration.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“At its fundamental nature, a final judgment that leads a person into marriage is not merely love, but a commitment to love a person forevermore, even when extenuating circumstances make it virtually impossible to continue extending untarnished and undiminished love. Marriage is a fundamental decision, a vow never to stop loving another person, never to leave a relationship irrespective of what life entails.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Solitude can force you to get married”
― Arif Naseem

“The Maronite Christian women in Manaus could not tolerate the notion of Zana marrying a Muslim. A mere tinker, a peddler, a roughneck, a Muslim from the mountains of Southern Lebanon, they’d say. Ah, these passions in the provinces. It’s like being onstage, listening to the audience booing two actors playing two lovers. The more they booed, the more perfume I put on the marriage sheets. It was a greedy and vengeful kiss, I silenced those rattling tongues…and all of Abbas’s ghazals were in that kiss.”
― Fábio Moon, Two Brothers

“When everything is fine, it's easy to be together: it's like a dream, all you have to worry about is breathing and the rest takes care of itself. You have to be together when things are bad -- that's why people get married.”
― Valentin Rasputin, Live and Remember

“Shall I tell you about the girl who bargained away her mother's eyes, that she might once taste stuffed dates such as these? I can't say I was sorry when the rabid dogs attacked her."
"You aren't sorry about anything you do."
He flashed a smile at me. "So you are learning."
"I've knownthatfact all my life. "
"Then what have you learnt since coming here?"
What it's like to kiss your shadow”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“A 2014 study by the University of Colorado found we select our partners with very similar DNA to our own, which is called “genetic assertive mating.” According to the study, married couples share far similar DNA than two random strangers on the street.”
― Cary G. Weldy, The Power of Tattoos: Twelve Hidden Energy Secrets of Body Art Every Tattoo Enthusiast Should Know

“Another socially important variable associated with mental ability is that of marriage, or more specifically that of who marries whom. A consistent finding in several studies of the characteristics of spouses is that there is a tendency for spouses to be similar in some—but not all—aspects of mental ability; in other words, some aspects of mental ability do show substantial “assortative mating.”

For example, in a study of married couples, Watson et al. (2004) examined spouses' scores on two mental ability tasks—a vocabulary test and a matrix reasoning test. Interestingly, even though vocabulary and matrix reasoning tend to be correlated with each other (both are strongly g-loaded tests), they revealed quite different results when correlations between spouses were considered. On the one hand, wives' and husbands' levels of vocabulary showed a fairly strong positive correlation, about.45.

But, on the other hand, wives' and husbands' levels of matrix reasoning were correlated only about.10. This result is consistent with previous findings, in which spouses have tended to show quite similar levels of verbal comprehension ability, but no particular similarity in mathematical reasoning ability (e.g., Botwin, Buss, & Shackelford, 1997).

Why should it be the case that spouses tend to be similar in verbal abilities, but not so similar in (equally g-loaded) nonverbal reasoning abilities? One likely explanation—as you might guess—is that two people will tend to have more rewarding conversations if they have similar levels of verbal ability, but that similar levels of nonverbal or mathematical reasoning ability are unlikely to contribute in an important way to any aspect of relationship quality.”
― Michael C. Ashton, Individual Differences and Personality

“Mr & Mrs Love by Stewart Stafford

The elephant in town remembered,
Mr & Mrs Love were stony pariahs,
Gossip branded them the greatest,
"See You Next Tuesdays" around.

They repeatedly bounced cheques,
Juggled their finances in tax havens,
Pledged charity money and reneged,
Refused to give gifts or Halloween candy.

Then the piper called for his payment,
It came on a day of more wrongdoing,
Served a hefty portion of just desserts,
With a surprise audit by Mr & Mrs IRS.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved”
― Stewart Stafford

“Marriage is when women finally get what they want, and men wave the white flag, unaware of the firing squad that awaits them.”
― Jack Freestone

“Marriage is not a frozen tableau, however. It is always moving, even if the participants don’t sense its motion.”
― Rebecca Rowland, White Trash and Recycled Nightmares

“Pursue intimacy not just sex.”
― Greg Gorman & Julie Gorman, WELCOME TO YOUR MARRIED FOR A PURPOSE REBOOT FACILITATOR’S GUIDE: A handbook to assist Married for a Purpose Certified Coaches in leading personal one-on-one Reboot Retreats for Married Couples.