#marriage

My father was very big on marriage. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#father #marriage #very

Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#marriage #life

All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged -- after all, what's good enough for Jane Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. But it's a lie. The story is about to begin, and every day will be a new piece of the plot. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#life

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

#am #been #catch #had #i

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world. ↗

— Erica Jong

#love #loyalty #marriage #friendship

Then, you must fall each into your proper place. You'll do your business, and she, if she's worthy of you, will do hers; but it's your business to please yourself, and hers to please you. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#business

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment. ↗

— Maximilian Schell

#first #first love #love #love is #marriage

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

#back #broken #decided #divorced #god

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner. ↗

— Red Skelton

#about #find #make #married #married men

When it’s your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#marriage #superstition #superstitions #faith