More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.
For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.
Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.
I don't know nothing about no marriages or nothing. I ain't even never been to a wedding.
I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there's nothing wrong with it.
After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced. So that's kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like he's going to be a bust in Detroit.
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
I care about women's rights and reproductive rights and my gay friends being able to keep their marriages official. You don't want your genre to disown you for it - and I don't think they would now - but you still see that sort of hatred and vitriol that comes with disagreeing with the conservative agenda.
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.
Interracial marriages were basically legalized, but nevertheless, there was a social stigma attached to them for a long time to come. I imagine that's going to be true for same-sex marriages - that people's emotional comfort level with it will not fully materialize for decades.
I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single.
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.
I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail.
I'm not a great believer in marriages as an institution, or even in very long term relationships. I'm not sure we're built that way.
People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.
My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters.
They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
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.
Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.
'Mr. Peanut' is not about a man who dreams of killing his wife; that's jacket copy, to me. 'Mr. Peanut' is about the dynamism of marriage and the distances - some tragic, some redemptive - that marriages travel over time, and those travels ain't always pretty.
Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason?
I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.
Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together.
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.
I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
I personally think that people should spend more time and money on their marriages instead of weddings.
It is difficult for me to understand the tragic accounts of troubled marriages that come to me.
Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.
The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.
