#marriage

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier. ↗

— Mary Wesley

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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#about #anything #devotion #knows #like

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#bribe #housekeeper #make #she #think

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. ↗

— George Will

#experience #hope #know #marriage #over

Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#marriage #time #experience

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague. ↗

— Robert Burton

#another #hell #his #married #never

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? ↗

— Samuel Butler

#distinctly #excluded #felicity #general #heaven

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix. ↗

— David Byrne

#always #been #fix #guess #happy

I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that. ↗

— Vince Cable

#been #comfortable #conclusions #draw #had

The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most. ↗

— Eleanora Duse

#marriage #most #partner #weaker #who