Marriage is not a joke. It is not like food that you can spit out when it is too hot to chew. —
Short Bad Marriage Quotes
A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world. — Robert Breault
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude — Rainer Maria Rilke
The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different — Spencer W. Kimball
Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another. — Ruth Graham
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. — Abraham Lincoln
Sex appeal alone is the poorest basis in the world for a happy marriage. — John R. Rice
Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses. — James Dobson
Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it — Socrates
Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever. — Nora Ephron
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. — Michel de Montaigne
Bad Marriage Image Quotes
One bad chapter does not mean your story is over.
Bad Marriage Life Quotes
A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc. — Charlie Munger
The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. — Diablo Cody
No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life. — Sophocles
If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.
Marriage is like mushrooms: we notice too late if they are good or bad. — Woody Allen
Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape. — Nancy Werlin
Maybe marriage, like life, is'nt only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things — like being guided slowly forward, surely, day after day — that stretches out to strengthen even the most tenuous bond. — Sarah Dessen
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands. — Doris Lessing
Unhappy Marriage Quotes
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. — Franz Schubert
Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce. — Jennifer Weiner
If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win. — John Gray
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness. — Sigmund Freud
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. — W. H. Auden
If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all. — Richard Bach
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones. — Joan Rivers
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens
Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both. — Ravi Zacharias
I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage. — Keith Richards
Failed Marriage Quotes
Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see. — Johann Sebastian Bach
You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor. — William Galston
If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada. — Mary Karr
You have to fight through the bad days in order to earn the best days.
Good bread and good butter go together. They are one of the perfect marriages in gastronomy, and they never fail to cheer me. — James Beard
Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three. — Bette Davis
If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail. — Mignon McLaughlin
Don't let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.
It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail. — Thomas Hardy
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults. — Richard Armour
The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else. — William Lyon Phelps
I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed. — Kirstie Alley
Bad Relationship Quotes
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. — Ernest Hemingway
If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success. — Will Smith
Every sunrise gives you a new beginning and a new ending. Let this morning be a new beginning to a better relationship and a new ending to the bad memories. Its an opportunity to enjoy life, breathe freely, think and love. Be grateful for this beautiful day. — Norton Juster
You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.
I feel like relationships are a beautiful thing, period. Relationships can be really beautiful, they can be really hard, they can be really rewarding, or they can be bad relationships where it's really detrimental and hurtful, but that's life, period. — J. Cole
I want to fall in love, I think. I've never. I know. Everyone I know's been in love or in relationships now and... There's only ever been... there's been people telling me they love me, but it freaks me out and I just run, run. I think I'm a bad girlfriend. — Cara Delevingne
However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside. — Deepak Chopra
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term? — Nicholas Sparks
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship. — Harville Hendrix
What would you have to sacrifice to have what you really want? Your social life? Relationships? Credit cards? Free time? Sleep? Now answer this question: What are you willing to sacrifice? If those two lists don’t match up, you don’t want it badly enough. — Tim Grover
Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person. — Wayne Dyer
Good Marriage Quotes
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. — Leo Tolstoy
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. — Helen Rowland
A successful marriage is made up of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal. — Anne Lamott
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. — Kai Knudsen
If you want to be good at something, you must first be willing to be bad at it.
A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection. — Dallin H. Oaks
The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time! — Heinz Kohut
In a good relationship, people get angry, but in a very different way. The Marriage Masters see a problem a bit like a soccer ball. They kick it around. It's 'our' problem. — John M. Gottman
One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights. — African Proverbs
Bad Husband Quotes
Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer. — Marco Rubio
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public. — Oscar Wilde
I felt really bad for someone who is swimming in so much hate. I just thought, that's someone who's in a really bad spot, and I am in such a happy spot. I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids who are mooning me and singing me songs. — Melissa McCarthy
Just don’t go to a place where everything is too expensive… it’ll put your husband in a bad mood. — Diane Von Furstenberg
To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband! — Samuel Richardson
The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go. — Sharon Stone
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one. — Daniel Defoe
Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door. — Indra Devi
Marriage Is Hard Quotes
Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not. — Michele Weiner-Davis
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere. — Groucho Marx
There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards. — Ossie Davis
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. — Iris Murdoch
I see a lot of marriages crash and burn around me and my wife. I've always been curious about how hard it is to love well and be loved. — Andre Dubus
While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories. — Timothy Keller
It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him. — Helen Rowland
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier. — Mary Wesley
Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good. — John Piper
Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash? — Dennis Miller
Broken Marriage Quotes
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. — Umberto Eco
Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken. — Oscar Wilde
Treat marriage like a diamond necklace; if broken, fix it, but do not throw it away. — Matshona Dhliwayo
All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again. — Peter Kreeft
There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken. — Wallis Simpson
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were. — Mort Sahl
Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours. — Kurt Vonnegut
It is he who has broken the bond of marriage -- not I. I only break its bondage. — Oscar Wilde
Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me. — Michael C. Hall
I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage. — Ricky Skaggs
Marriage Separation Quotes
Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the bus. It is the motif that determined that black and white people could not possibly drink from the same water fountain, eat at the same table or use the same toilets. — David Lammy
Marriage helps young couples to raise themselves towards God. The bond of marriage unites two souls so firmly that though they are physically two separate entities, their souls are merged into one harmonious whole. — Dada Vaswani
We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together. — Rodney Dangerfield
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. — Alan King
The difference between divorce and legal separation is that legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money. — Johnny Carson
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. — Sydney Smith
I think husbands and wives should live in separate houses. If there's enough money, the children should live in a third. — Cloris Leachman
Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that. — Nick Cave
Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives. — George Burns
And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end. — Junot Diaz
Marriage Life Quotes
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be. — Leo Tolstoy
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. — Robert Fulghum
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart — Leo Buscaglia
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. — Nhat Hanh
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. — Oscar Wilde
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute. — Edgar Allan Poe
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran
And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy. — Edgar Allan Poe
I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother... Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life. — Leila Khaled
I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place. — Ratan Tata
So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect. — Ellen DeGeneres
I was married once--in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad. — W. C. Fields
I have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love and care for each other in good times and in bad, the government shouldn't deny them the opportunity to get married. — Rob Portman
But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean? — Robert Downey, Jr.
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. — William Shakespeare
The thing is, whenever I see Hillary Clinton, I feel like I have to vote for her. She makes me feel guilty because I feel like I should vote for her so that she'll feel better about herself because she'd been in such a bad marriage. — Lewis Black
I guess no matter how hard you try, you can't escape your past. — Joel Osteen
I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer. — Bob Monkhouse
Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you. — Sarah Dessen
Right now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have equal rights. I have so many friends who are gays and lesbians who would so badly want to get married, that I wouldn't be able to sleep with myself [if I got married before they could]. — Charlize Theron
Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends. — Joe Rogan
Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip. “No, the divorce was great,” I said. “It was the marriage that sucked. — Lisa Kleypas
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce. — P. J. O'Rourke
A bad marriage is worse than no marriage at all. — Neil Clark Warren
No matter how good or bad we may feel, no matter how up or down we may be, Christ loves us, accepts us, and thinks the world of us. — Myles Munroe
I think it's almost immoral to keep on with a marriage that's really bad. It just gets more and more rotten and vindictive and everybody gets more and more hurt. There's not enough honesty about marriage, I think. I wish more people would face the truth about their marital situations. — Johnny Carson
Stressful jobs, loveless marriages, bad food-most people kill themselves slowly every day. — Arthur Nersesian
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving. — Erica Jong
I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination. — Dennis Rodman
I have been to more than 80 countries, and there is not one-not one-that I didn't have women coming up to me sharing stories of overcoming major abuse, a bad marriage turning good, etc. — Gloria Gaynor
For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal. — Woody Allen
A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative. — Fannie Hurst
A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go. — Ambrose Bierce
Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too. — Jerry B. Jenkins
No one would wish a bad marriage on anyone. But where do we think good marriages come from? They don't spring full blown from the head of Zeus any more than does a good education...Why should a marriage require fewer tears and less toil and shabbier commitment than your job or your clothes or your car? — Jeffrey R. Holland
Household hollowness comes around in irregular cycles, like meteor showers. But the true sign of a bad patch is that it never feels temporary or fixable. It has a shudder of the inevitable to it. The thought crosses your mind that when love goes it goes all at once, and forever. — Marni Jackson
I fancy that England is not the only place where married folks disagree, and where there are bad husbands. If one does not care to meet with such cases, one must quit this world. Those wishing to enter the marriage state had better not come to me for advice, for I disapprove of it altogether. — Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans
Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end. — Matt Taibbi
The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave. — Rick Santorum
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving. — Erica Jong
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil. — Azar Nafisi
They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing. — Terry Gilliam
America promotes a lot of bad things, you know. Same-sex marriage, for example. — Roy Moore
People can't help the way they feel, only what they do about it. They can no longer not be attracted to someone other than their spouse than they can say they are not hungry or not thirsty or not frightened or embarrassed. It's when you act on that attraction when you know it would be bad for your marriage that is the problem. In a good marriage, the couple are each as committed to the marriage as they are to each other. — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Plenty of people have bad divorces, but few of them end up with cancer, imprisonment, and public scorn. In the dark, rolling, treacherous wake of that sunken ship, the last thing I sought was a "relationship" or, heaven forbid, marriage. — Jim Goad
I think it's quite common and realistic. There are many stories like this [in Waitress]. [Jenna, my character] marriage looks really horrible up on the screen but I think there are a lot of people in bad relationships who wake up and think to themselves: "Wow, how did I end up here? Why am I still here and so unhappy and not satisfied with my life?" — Keri Russell
I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having a really bad time with it. I thought flight might perk up a marriage here or there. — Steven Amsterdam
I've had bad luck in my two previous marriages. The first wife left me, and the second did not. — Woody Allen
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