Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.
A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.
There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!
It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.
I left home as soon as I could, when I was 18. I thought I was in love and got married - the press called it Prince Charming and Cinderella. He was a Hilton so I was the poor little Cinderella. And when I got a divorce nine months later I never told the court why, but he was cruel.
The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
I'm amazed, as quirky, individual and selfish as most of us are, that anyone stays married for long.
Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.
I think that divorce is a vital escape hatch for people stuck in marriage and it is not a sentence of doom either for adults or children. The community should develop better support systems for saving or restoring potentially healthy marriages.But we should also help people who decide to divorce have healthier partings.
Married pixy, I told myself, forcing my eyes back to the shelf of ceramic animals. Fifty-four kids. Beautiful wife, sweet as sugar, who would kill me in my sleep while apologizing for it.
Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out.
It's impossible for a couple to bring up two children without having lots and lots of arguments.
It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.
Despite my divorces, I still believe in marriage, and I have believed in all my marriages, although maybe not the one with Sylvester Stallone, as I was really pressured to marry him.
Tiger Woods was a month away from 34 years of age when his debutantes began turning up in the news. He was a grown man with a wife and two children. Well, we supposed he had a wife, but that was before we learned she was only an ornament.
Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two.
I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women
A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.
I'm really proud of 'Private Life.' It's about a marriage and a couple on the hunt to make a family by any means necessary. They're on such an obsessive quest that, after awhile, you forget that it's even for a baby. It fits right in that middle pocket of being a comedy and a drama.
The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.
Nobody wants to get divorced.
