Merle Shain Quotes

I have spent more nights with Roberto Carlos than all of the women I have been married to put together.

I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.

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

There are a lot of reasons why marriages don't continue.

All marriages have a time limit if you enter them for the wrong reasons. Marriage doesn't get easier...it only gets harder. If you marry someone hoping it will improve things, you might as well set your timer the second you say, 'I do.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

The biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

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

Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief.

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.

My first wife kept calling me Sal, and I finally said to her, 'Why do you think I changed my name, honey? I really didn't like the old name.'

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan, it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.

My own marriages have not been a great success. I've been divorced twice and when I first got divorced it hit my parents very hard.

'Gone Girl' is as much about the near impossibility of being a good husband as it is about the anguish of being a good wife.

I believe passionately that the notion of having to work at a marriage is baloney. Making sacrifices and being a martyr makes one hell of a bad marriage.

I flew to England to see the rough cut of 'Revolutionary Road.' I was quite moved. As a married man, it's kind of disturbing to see a couple try so hard to work things out and fail so miserably.

Sometimes marriages break up, sometimes relationships don't work.

The only thing wrong with marriage is that one of the persons involved is a man.

Anything a wife should do, I'm terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I'll try.

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

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

A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

You can't do sweatpants... ladies, number one cause of divorce in America, sweatpants, no!