E. B. White Quotes

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.

Marriage is the tomb of love.

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.

One fool at least in every married couple.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Jim Bakker ripped off the bedspread and said, my wife doesn't make me feel like a man anymore.

When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either.

The city is overrun by a flock of ill-used, and ill-using, petulant, libidinous, extravagant, ill-fitting husbands and wives as a sink is overrun with the foul water of the whole house.

A lot of books about marriage are about marriages falling apart.

Not listening is probably the commonest unkindness of married life, and one that creates - more devastatingly than an eternity of forgotten birthdays and misguided Christmas gifts - an atmosphere of not loving and not caring.

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

People struggle in marriages and more than 55% of people get divorced.

The biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

I think a bad husband is far worse than no husband.

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

The three chief causes of divorce are men, women, and marriage.

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

Some couples divorce because of a misunderstandin g; others, because they understand each other too well.

Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.

It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.

Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.

Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.

Marriage wrecks any decent relationship.