Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

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.

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.

Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Challenge is good for any relationship.

War is what happens when language fails.

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

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

There is some tension but at the end of the day you have to reconcile.

Husbands and wives fight, and when the wife is packing up, the husband says, 'Don't leave! I'm gonna change!' Marriages stay together because people promise to change.

I thought divorce was for people that threw plates at each other, and I'd have to be an alcoholic or having affairs. But the truth is, sometimes a very sweet, well-meaning person just doesn't do it for you, and you need to get out of there.

Marriage is hard.

Communication will bring understanding and understanding will cause harmonious mutual relationships which can establish peace and stability.

Awkward conversations are painful, but they're way easier than divorce, resentment, and heartbreak.

The key to a happy marriage is myself being absent for long periods of time. My wife Leesa and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary next year, but if my comedy gigs petered out and I was around the house more, we'd 100% be getting divorced.

All relationships are complicated in some way - you fight, you make up, you laugh, you get angry. It happens.

There comes a crossroads in every marriage where you grow together or grow apart. I outgrew Len. He wanted me to be in that leather jumpsuit for the rest of my life and do nothing else. He constrained me. It got to a point where the marriage died or I did.

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

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

We have a good time and try not to kill each other.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.