#marriages

I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely. ↗

— Ava Gardner

#failed #i #i always #i think #loved

Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked. ↗

— Marta Kristen

#been #bills #came #college #fellows

Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip. “No, the divorce was great,” I said. “It was the marriage that sucked. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#divorce #death

In 1895 Lady Londonberry commented acidly on a bridegroom who had 'married the 10,000 a year as well as the lady. ↗

— Pamela Horn

#marriages-of-convenience #victoriana #victorians #life

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#bat #careers #down #else #friendships

Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see. ↗

— Manolo Blahnik

#costs #divorce #fortune #i #marriages

Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by our gay and lesbian citizens. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#citizens #economics #failed #gay #lesbian

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#against #always #day #fixed #i

But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict. ↗

— Brad Garrett

#conflict #everyone #funny #garden #her

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#arise #arrangements #fashioned #improvement #marriage