#marriage

Love is not all you need – you will also need food, clothes and a roof over your heads. Silly, but so true. ↗

— Moffat Machingura

#food #love #marriage #needs #settle-down

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#each #going #judged #know #marriage

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#counted #during #father #first #great

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#back #care #caretakers #dogs #everybody

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work. ↗

— Princess Diana

#divorced #especially #even #had #harder

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. ↗

— John Gay

#comfortable #estate #hope #keeps #only

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking. ↗

— Marvin Gaye

#looking #lot #marriage #miserable #person

The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman. ↗

— Billy Graham

#bible #clear #definition #god #man

You get what you give," we will tell his sorry, selfish ass." The Betty Lady has spoken. I detect a Bronx accent. "But," I demur, "it will make the other woman say, ´See? She IS a jealous and paranoid and pushy wife.´" The Betty Lady rips open a cell phone statement with a nail file and, without looking up at me, says, "Let me tell you something, honey. In my experience? The only thing they care about is what they see in the mirror each morning and WINNING...or their perception of winning. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#brings #difficulty #duty #fastened #feeling