Unhappy Marriage Quotes - Page 2

• So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.

  Lillian Russell

  Marriage, Unhappy, Firsts

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• As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.

  Helen Fisher

  Mean, Unhappy, Gains

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• Married women are far more depressed than married men - in unhappy marriages, three times more; and - interestingly - in happy marriages, five times more. In truth, it is men who are thriving in marriage, now as always, and who show symptoms of psychological and physical distress outside it. Not only their emotional well-being but their very lives, some studies say, depend on being married!

  Dalma Heyn

  Marriage, Men, Emotional

  Dalma Heyn (2011). “Marriage Shock: The Transformation of Women into Wives”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Husband, Men, Brain

  The Adventures of Sally (1920) ch. 10

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• A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wife, Gentleman, Unhappy

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.40

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• Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Strong, Unhappy, Woven

  "War Within and Without". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1980.

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• Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Funny, Life, Marriage

  The Adventures of Sally (1920) ch. 10

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• I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single

  Paula Danziger

  Unhappy, Happy Marriage, Married

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• The triumph of hope over experience.

  Samuel Johnson

  Marriage, Funny Love, Hope

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1770)

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• It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once inside I couldn't help a feeling of warmth and security. Outside there were wars and road accidents and murders, striptease clubs and battered babies and frayed tempers and unhappy marriages and people contemplating suicide and bad jokes, but once in St. Martin's there was peace. Surely people go to church not to involve themselves in the world's problems but to escape from them.

  Michael Palin

  Suicide, Baby, War

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• The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.

  Rebecca West

  Children, Divorce, Men

  Rebecca West, Jane Marcus (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, New York : Viking Press

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• Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Marriage, Unhappy, Levels

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