Wanda Sykes Quotes

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

She wasn't, nor ever had been, under the illusion that marriage was a relationship characterized by endless bliss and romance. Throw any two people together, add the inevitable ups and downs, give the mixture a vigorous stir, and a few stormy arguments were inevitable, no matter how the couple loved each other.

Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell.

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

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

Before I go on selling the joy of working with your spouse, I should make something clear: Although we have a great marriage, it is as trying as anyone's.

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

Marriage is hard, and it can be tough when you're both actors.

People are complicated; you put two of them together and it's generally a mess, but hopefully a beautiful mess.

I've been married to Kris for 21 years, and there have always been rocky times. And it's nothing special.

Every couple goes through things.

Some people find that if they share a profession with their partner, they don't talk about anything else.

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.

'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.

My husband says, 'What Joan walk? You've always walked that way!'

I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't.

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

The woman’s own choice makes such a man her husband; yet being so chosen, he is her lord, and she is to be subject to him, yet in a way of liberty, not of bondage.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married.

If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.

You always have to make sure your husband knows he isn't going to be replaced.

There was imbalance with my first husband just by the given of our 29-year age difference and the difficulty of me being this unformed, enthusiastic young woman and he already completely in place being the leader of the country.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.

And this, incidentally, is my thumbnail sketch of American marriage: A woman sees a man; she likes him. Now she jumps on this thing and rides it to some kind of standstill. Then she changes it and trains it, and to the exact degree that she's able to do this, she disrespects him.