Quotes of: Marriage-work Keyword

It's part of the marriage vows. Didn't you read the fine print? To have and to harass.

Fall of Night

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

Forever Odd

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

Galápagos

But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.

Golden State

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

Gone with the Wind

A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

Handle with Care

So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

Handle with Care

This daemon loves men whose marriage beds have grown cold, so she can set them ablaze.

An Hour of Decadence

A covenant differs from a contract almost as much as marriage differs from prostitution.

Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God

It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.

Blind Leading Another

Her first marriage, a distressing experience involving an umbrella, had to be annulled.

A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers

When you cease to blame your spous eand own the problem as yours, you are then empowered to make changes to solve your problem.

Boundaries in Marriage

Like the marriage contract you entered into, your divorce is a legal transaction. Treat it that way. Try not to let emotion, hurt, fear or anger dictate the circumstances of your discussions or negotiations.

Laura Wasser

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

Henny Youngman

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

Jacques Pepin

My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.

Marina Abramovic

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

Pope John Paul II

You can love a song, but you can form a bond with an album, a relationship that evolves as organically and beautifully as a marriage.

100 Greatest Albums

Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

The Age of Innocence

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.

I Capture the Castle

Your marriage," Jake said, almost impatiently. "It's like the grapes. Just a paint job." He went straight to bed.

Raising Jake