Quotes About Challenges

I don't think marriages break up because of what you do to each other. They break up because of what you must become in order to stay in them.

I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.

I loved everything about marriage. I loved having a companion to wake up with and have barbecues with. But things happen and people grow apart.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.

It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way.

Any marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings - many of them abortive.

Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

Nothing positive at all in my life came from my marriage, I can tell you that.

I don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.

Marriage is the most expensive ticket to nowhere

On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

Marriage is not a reform school.

unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.

Marriage is the cold potato of love.

Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].

Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.

There aren't many great adverts for marriage or parenthood. It always looks so stressful, and that's what I've been scared of. What you don't realise is how much you're going to get back.

In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents

Marriage is better than leprosy only because it's easier to get rid of.

In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.