Peter De Vries Quotes

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

I knew that it was harder to unite two lives than I had imagined growing up. I knew that relationships could be fragile.

Marriage is hard.

I have a very intense marriage.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

Everybody says love is about finding the person who is right for me and then everything will be fine. But it's not like that. It involves work. An old man tells you this!

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.

I am not drawn to the fairytale kind of love. I am drawn to the real-life experiences between a woman and a man. I try to sing about the way it is, but yet at the same time, what you can hope for between a couple.

Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work.

Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence.

We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand.

Staying focused is hard work and staying married is even harder.

There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.

Free love never works.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.