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married:
Having a spouse ; united by the bonds of marriage . See marriage for synonyms.See Also: Abélard, adamite, adventuress, afternoon gig, altar it, altared, ambisexual, anchored, baby porker, baby-snatcher, back-door man, bait, ball-busting, beaver trap, bewifed, bigamy, Bluebeard, blushing bride, boosies, bride and groom it, Buckinger's boot, bundled, bush child, cash and carried, cavalier, cavaliere servente, celibacy, churched, City-Halled, cluster marriage, cohabit, cohabitation, coitus legitimus, Colt's tooth, come-on boy, common-law husband, common-law marriage, common-law spouse, common-law wife, concubine, conjugal, conjugal relations, conjugal rites, conjugals, connubial, connubial pleasures, connubial relations, consensual non-monogamy, couple, cradle-robber, cradle-snatcher, cut and carried, Daisy Dumpling, damaged goods, decoy(er), diasteunia, do the right thing, dot and carried, double act, double harness, dragging an anchor, eligible, espoused, ex-bach, fag bag, faggot's moll, fairy hawk, fake it, fancy man, feather one's bed, flinking, fornicate, fornication, frau, frow, fuck around, gander, get altared, get churched, get hitched, get hooked, get papers, get settled, get spliced, go domestic, gone and done it, good woman, gotten hitched, half-husband, hang up one's hat, have an affair with, hit and run guy, hitch, hitched, holy bedlock, homely, honeymoon, hook up, hooked, horrorform, hymeneal, hymenorrhaphy, hyphenated, illegal cohabitation, illegitimate, illicit relations, illicit sex, in double harness, in flagrante delicto, infidelity, join hands with, joined in holy matrimony, jump the besom, knot, knotted, leaping over the sword, left-handed wife, lifer, lollapaloosa, lollipalooza, lost her honor, lovebirds, M, made man and wife, made one, make an honest woman of, make it legal, make marry, make the legal move, marital, marital duty, marital relations, marital rights, marriage, marriage joys, married but not churched, marry into dough, masturbator, matched, mated, matrimonial, matrimony, mesh, meshed, missis-ed, moneymoon, monogamous, Mr. Right, Mrs. Right, nuptial rights, other woman, the, paired, paramour, parsoned, piss proud, rabbied, renounce bachelorhood, rob the cradle, second-hand article, sentenced (for life), settle down, seven year itch, shack-up, share a bed with, share one's bed, side dish, signed, sealed and delivered, snake pit, socket money, spare rib, spliced, swallow the worm, swinger, swinging, swinging single, tail-femme, take a cottage course, take the fatal jump, take the fatal leap, take the fatal step, take the plunge, tied the knot, unattached, united in holy matrimony, united in wedlock, unnatural act, unnatural sex, unnatural sin, unwedlocked, wedded, welded, wife-swapping, yoked
Quotes Containing married:
Twelve year old Hutterian Brethren Ezechiel/Zeke (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) married to much older Havana/Betsy Iggets (Patricia Arquette) in Holy Matrimony (1994): - Zeke:''I don''t think our marriage is working. '' - Havana:''Then we have something in common with every married couple in America.''
Ronald Kornblow (Groucho Marx) to Pierre (Charles Drake) and his fiancee Annette (Lois Collin) in A Night in Casablanca (1946): - Ronald: 'Why don't you two lovebirds get married?' - Pierre: 'Oh, marriage is impossible.' - Ronald: 'Only after you're married .'
A 12-year old Hutterian, Ezechiel/Zeke (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) married to a much older Havana/Betsy Iggets (Patricia Arquette) in Holy Matrimony (1994): - Ezechiel: 'I don't think our marriage is working. ' - Havana: 'Then we have something in common with every married couple in America.'
Beryl Muddle (J. McKenzie) and Wally Mellish (Colin Frields) in Mr. Reliable (1996): - Beryl: 'Mom says that if she was married to you she would poison your coffee.' - Wally: 'If I was married to her, I'd drink it .'
Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) in When Harry Met Sally (1989):'We wanted to live-together , but we didn't want to get married , because every time anyone we knew got married , it ruined their relationship . They practically never had sex again. It's true. It's one of the secrets that no one ever tells you.'
Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) in When Harry Met Sally (1989): 'We wanted to live-together , but we didn't want to get married , because every time anyone we knew got married , it ruined their relationship . They practically never had sex again. It's true. It's one of the secrets that no one ever tells you.'
''What''s the fun of being a teenager if you can''t dress weird?'' Charlie Bodell (Nicolas Cage) in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Oliver Rose (Michael Douglas) to his wife Barbara (Kathleen Turner) in Dinner at Eight (1989): 'I'm more than happy, I'm way past happy, I'm... married .'
Oliver Rose (Michael Douglas) to his wife Barbara (Kathleen Turner) in The War of the Roses (1989): 'I'm more than happy, I'm way past happy, I'm... married .'
Gambler Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando) in Guys and Dolls (1955): 'No matter who you marry you wake up married to someone else.'
Kay Thorndyke (Angela Lansbury) to her married friend Grant Matthews (Spencer Tracy) in State of the Union (1948):''I''m the corner of this triangle that will take the beating .''
Lucy Warrimer (Irene Dunne) in The Awful Truth (1937): ''Can''t have a happy married life if you''re always going to be suspicious of each other.''
Thomas (John Halliday) to Anita (Ingrid Bergman) about her relationship with a married man in Intermezzo (1939): ''I wonder if anyone has ever built happiness on the unhappiness of others?''
Dr. Prokosch (Oscar Homolka) to his student Cathy (Kim Novak) who proposes to be the live-in girlfriend of three married men for her sociology thesis in Boys' Night Out (1962): - Prokosh: 'Can you look like yes and act like no? Can you entice them, lure them, then pospone, evade, delay? It needs a special kind of experience and skill. This a nice girl has not learned.' - Cathy: 'No. This is what a nice girl has learned best.'
Barbara Willis (Mary Astor), a married-woman confessing a moment of weakness with Dennis Carson (Clark Gable), and Vantine (Jean Harlow) in Red Dust (1932): - Barbara: ''It was one-of-those excitement-of-the-moment things. '' - Vantine: ''Well, watch out for the next moment, honey , it''s longer than the first .''
Charley Nichols (Walter Matthau) in House Calls (1978): 'Still beats being married . I mean a date you can look at as a non-recurring expense; a wife is overhead.'
Nina (Susan Anspach) and Stephen Blume (George Segal) in Blume in Love (1973): - Nina: 'We could live-together for a while.' - Stephen: 'The trouble with living together is that you're always thinking when are you gonna stop living together and get married and really start living together.'
Humorously defined by Louis J. Safian in An Irreverent Dictionary of Love and Marriage (1966) as: ''A time-saver; but lots of married people wish they had wiped their glasses for a good second look.''
Allan (Woody Allen) thinking of his wife Nancy in Play It Again, Sam (1972): 'I wonder if she actually had an orgasm in the two years we were married or did she fake-it that night?'
Allan (Woody Allen) thinking of his wife Nancy in Play It Again, Sam (1972): ''I wonder if she actually had an orgasm in the two years we were married or did she fake-it that night?''
Vinny Day (Irene Dunne) about her husband Clare (William Powell) in Life with Father (1947): 'You know , I don't believe Clare has come-out and told me he loves me since we been married . Of course I know he does because I keep reminding him of it . You have to keep reminding them, Cora.'
Peachum (Fritz Rasp), the king of beggars, to his daughter Polly (Carola Meher) who secretly married Mack the Knife (Rudolph Forster) in The Threepenny Penny Opera (1931): - Peachum: 'You'll get a divorce!' - Polly: 'But I love him! How can I get a divorce?' - Peachum: 'I'll tan your behind!' - Polly: 'It won't do any good. Love is greater that a tanned behind .'
Nicole L''Oiselle (Claudette Colbert) toasting her reconciliation with her husband Michael Brandon (Gary Cooper) in Bluebeard''s Eight Wife (1938): - Nicole: ''Here''s to our agreement: no love-making, no quarrels.'' - Michael:''Just like an ordinary married couple .'' - Nicole:''I said no quarrels.''
Lois (Margaret Hays) to Richard (Glenn Ford) in Blackboard Jungle (1955): ''You''re married and I''m bored . You''re afraid and I''m choosy. And you can''t be choosy or you live alone.''
Geraldine Jeffers (Claudette Colbert) leaving her husband Tom (Joel McCrea) in The Palm Beach Story (1942): - Gerry: ''I may not get married again. I might become an adventuress .'' - Tom: ''I can just see you starting for China on a twenty-six foot sailboat.'' - Gerry: ''You''re thinking of an adventurer, dear. An adventuress never goes on anything under three hundred feet with a crew of eighty.''
Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx) flirting with Gloria Teasdale (Margaret Dumont) in Duck Soup (1933): 'Married! I can see you now, in the kitchen , bending over a hot stove, but I can't see the stove.'
Daisy Heath (Margaret Sullavan) to her maid Martha (Hattie McDaniel) in The Shopworn Angel (1938): 'Why do you want to get married anyway? When a man knows he's got you then you haven't got him.'
Harriet (Nancy Travis) and Charlie (Mike Meyers) in So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993): - Harriet Michaels: ''What do you look for in a woman you date?'' - Charlie Mackenzie: ''Well, I know everyone always say a sense of humor, but I really have to go-with breast size.''
Allan (Woody Allen) thinking of his wife Nancy in Play It Again, Sam (1972): ''I wonder if she actually had an orgasm in the two years we were married or did she fake-it that night?''
Clifford Stern (Woody Allen), a married man , tells his niece Jenny (Jenny Nichols) about his infatuation with Holly Reed (Mia Farrow) in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989): ''My heart says one thing my head says another. It''s very hard to get your head and heart together in life . (...) In my case they''re not even friendly .''
Tillie Schlaine (Carol Burnett) to Pete Seltzer (Walter Matthau) after about six months of dating in Pete ''n'' Tillie (1972): ''Honeymoon''s over. Time to get married .''
Romy White (Mira Sorvino) complaining about the scarcity of interesting menales in a bar , and her friend Michelle Weinberger (Lisa Kudrow) in Romy and Michelle''s High School Reunion (1998): - Romy: ''I swear to God, sometimes I wish I were a lesbian .'' - Micheelle: ''You want to have-sex sometimes just to see if we are?'' - Romy: ''Just the idea of having-sex with another woman creeps me out ..., but, if we''re not married by the time were thirty, ask me again.''
Meg (Mary Kay Place) to Sarah (Glenn Close) on the subject of dating in The Big Chill (1983):'They're either married or gay . And if they're not gay , they've just broken up with the most wonderful woman in the world or they've just broken up with a bitch who looks just like me. They're in transition from a monogamous relationship and they need more space or they're tired of space but they just can't commit or they want to commit but they're afraid to get close. They want to get close, you don't want to get near them.'
Elizabeth Taylor. ''Ive only slept with the men Ive been married to. How many women can make that claim?''
Ira Skitch (Will Rogers) to his son-in-law in Mr. Skitch (1933): 'A wife is a wonderful thing and no husband should be without one. Now, Harvey, I'm gonna give you a bit of advice from an old veteran husband to an amateur . The most dangerous year in married life is the first , then comes the second, and the third, and the fourth, and on down . Marriage is an institution. I've been an inmate of that institution long enough to know that the most successful marriage in one where the wife is the boss and don't know it .'
Captain Jeffrey Spaulding (Groucho Marx) proposing marriage to both Mrs. Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont) and Mrs. Whitehead (Margaret Irving) in Animal Crackers (1930): - Spaulding: ''Well, what do you say, girls? Are we all going to get married?'' - Rittenhouse: ''All of us?'' - Spaulding: ''All of us!'' - Rittenhouse: ''Yes, but that''s bigamy!'' - Spaulding: ''Yes, and it''s big-of-me too. It''s big of all of us. Let''s be big for a change. I''m sick of these conventional marriages. One woman and one man was good enough for your grandmother, but who wants to marry your grandmother?''
Ira Skitch (Will Rogers) to his son-in-law in Mr. Skitch (1933): 'A wife is a wonderful thing and no husband should be without one. Now, Harvey, I'm gonna give you a bit of advice from an old veteran husband to an amateur . The most dangerous year in married life is the first , then comes the second, and the third, and the fourth, and on down . Marriage is an institution. I've been an inmate of that institution long enough to know that the most successful marriage in one where the wife is the boss and don't know it .'
Robin (Cary Elwes) and Marian (Amy Yasbeck) in Robin Hood. Men in Tights (1993): - Robin: ''Darling, I''m ready for that kiss now.'' - Marian: ''But first , I must warn you. It could only be a kiss for I am a virgin and could never go-all-the-way .'' - Robin: ''But...'' - Marian: ''Unless, of course, I were married . Or if a man pledged his endless love to me. Or if I knew that he desperately cared for me. Or if he were really cute .''
Robin (Cary Elwes) and Marian (Amy Yasbeck) in Robin Hood. Men in Tights (1993): - Robin: ''Darling, I''m ready for that kiss now.'' - Marian: ''But first , I must warn you. It could only be a kiss for I am a virgin and could never go-all-the-way .'' - Robin: ''But...'' - Marian: ''Unless, of course, I were married . Or if a man pledged his endless love to me. Or if I knew that he desperately cared for me. Or if he were really cute .''
Rebecca Trager Lott (Elizabeth Perkins), Alberta Russell (Kathleen Turner), Sylvie Morrow (Whoopi Goldberg), Alberta and Rebecca again in Moonlight and Valentino (1995): - Rebecca: 'I just realized that we have all kinds of womanhood here right now. We have a single-woman , a married-woman , a divorced woman and of course the ever present widow.' - Alberta: 'These are just words that describe your marital status, not womanhood . I don't think you ought to describe yourself in that-way , Rebecca.' - Sylvie: 'Why not?' - Alberta: 'Because it implies that we change ourselves around men. I mean, we are who we are irrespective of the company we keep.' - Rebecca: 'Hmm, hmm, which is why ever since some painter screamed for his idot dog with his stupid name we have been unable to utter one intelligent word.'
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