#marriages

There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband. ↗

— Clifford Odets

#kinds #marriages #quotes #two #where

I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant. ↗

— Leah Ward Sears

#american family #been #country #crisis #definition

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#marriages #may #pleasant

Nations fight against nations, in marriages people fight against each other, children fight against each other. We are in warfare, in a national warfare, and in warfare with each other and with ourselves. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#children #each #fight #marriages #national

Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles. ↗

— Farrah Fawcett

#last #live #los #los angeles #marriages

All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems. ↗

— Shelley Winters

#causes #happy #live #marriages #problems

The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#marriage

Don't you ever get tired of reading?" she asked. "You could hardly be called good company! Don't you know that, with women, you're supposed to make conversation?" she added; her half smile was perhaps meant to be ironic, though to Amedeo, who at that moment would have paid anything rather than give up his novel, it seemed downright threatening. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#lectophilia #mixed-marriages-never-work #reading #relationship-nightmare #run-away

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it. ↗

— Morton Hunt

#any #break #break up #determination #failure

After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#alive #anymore #few #forever #hate