Elbert Hubbard Quotes

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

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

Don't get married to an actress because they're also actresses in bed.

Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.

For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy.

Marriage is the tomb of love.

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

People promise to stick with their spouse 'for richer or poorer' but it's the 'for poorer' part that causes the worry. The big shock is that the 'for richer' bit can also cause problems.

90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?

I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married.

A lot of Hollywood couples get married young and wind up growing out of their relationship.

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

I don't think I should have been married... to anybody.

I'm a terrible husband.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

After being married, hearing 'You're hot!' from a total stranger means a hundred times more than hearing it from your husband.

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

I was very immature when I married.

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 never believed in the institution of marriage, because ever since I was young, I had only seen marriages fall apart, or remain stuck in a rut.

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

My wife has cut our lovemaking down to once a month, but I know two guys she's cut out entirely.

Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

Women's magazines continue to print 'helpful' articles on How to Hang on to Your Husband while thousands of wives write to me and complain that 'hanging is too good for 'em.