All Quotes By Tag: Marriage

“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.”

“Marriage is a wonderful invention; but then again so is a bicycle repair kit.”

“(Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.)”

“There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance … some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning-together from the vertical which produces the false arch. For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone.”

“Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion.And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential.Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats.”

“When a man doesn’t want you. He plays you. When a women doesn’t want you. She humiliates you.”

“If you behave in a manner that poisons your relationship, don’t be surprised when it dies.”

“There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn’t Mark or the farm or marriage I was trying to shake loose from but my own imperfect self, and even if I kept moving, she would dog me all the way around the world, forever.”

“…[A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which one human being can offer to another in the midst of the devastating intimacy of a happy marriage.”

“[…] marriage is one thing, and love is another…You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques…”

“Love is supposed to lift you up, not hold you down. It is supposed to push you forward, not hold you back.”

“My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.”

“To lovers out there…If your partner is understating , caring , loving, supportive, loyal and forgiving. Every person has their own limit. Don’t take advance of them, because there will be one day where they will reach they limit and you wont matter to them or have space in their heart anymore. Don’t push them on good they do to you, because one day , they will be fed-up and exhausted that they wont take it anymore . Instead stop your bad habits before its too late.”

“Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy”

“The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love – that’s the reason one should never marry.”