Best Married Life Quotes

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes — one of the tragedies of married life.

To feel admiration for a man all through one’s married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

She felt drawing further from her and further from her an Archduke, (she did not mind that) a fortune, (she did not mind that) the safety and circumstance of married life, (she did not mind that) but life she heard going from her, and a lover.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Inventors don’t have time for married life.

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.

Sexual touch is the dessert of married life!

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks … all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations.

The baggage in your individual life will weigh down your married life. Do something about it.

Married life is absolutely brilliant.

For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won’t want to know Bunbury. ALGERNON Then your wife will. You don’t seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none. JACK That, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years. ALGERNON Yes; and that the happy English home has proved in half the time.

I was afraid of marriage. I had the impression married life would take up all my time. I saw myself drowning in visits and parties. No freedom.

If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . . . she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.

The days were sunny, the nights were star-studded. Indeed married life was strawberries for breakfast and loving all the time.

Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.

If marriage isn’t a first priority in your life, you’re not married.

I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I started to write in earnest.

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.

I am not convinced that either the position, rewards or achievements have been worth the cost. My personal and married life and child raising have surely suffered from the professional attainments I have achieved.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as – if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

… business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,–if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.

If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.

A wife, if she is very generous, may allow that her husband lives up to perhaps eighty percent of her expectations. There is always the other twenty percent that she would like to change, and she may chip away at it for the whole of their married life without reducing it by very much. She may, on the other hand, simply decide to enjoy the eighty percent, and both of them will be happy.

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

There’s no healthy life possible without some sensual feeling between the husband and wife, but there’s nothing in the world more awful than married life when it’s the only common ground.