Marital Discord Quotes

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

Murder of a man by his wife was called treason (petty as distinguished from high treason), and was more cruelly avenged than was usually the case with high treason;

I've been accused of being a bit too keen on my football, not least by my three ex-wives.

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither would take the garbage out.

a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out.

Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.

Good women are obedient. If they are not, send them to separate beds … and beat them.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!

I'm not the greatest husband - I've got a girlfriend. It doesn't really please my wife, but then if I was looking to please her I wouldn't have a girlfriend. I mean she knows about it, and I guess she's okay with it. Plus my kids like both of them.

Dad was a hypocrite. He could talk about peace and love to the world but he could never show it to his wife and son.

Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

Because the woman is more emotional, if we put the right of divorce in her hand she might divorce for the smallest reasons. But the man, known for bearing more responsibility, will not divorce except in states of extreme necessity

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

The biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

When Gingrich attacked CNN's John King for bringing up his alleged proposal of an open marriage to his second wife, Gingrich accused him of lowering the level of discourse in a presidential debate, suggesting that such a discussion is unworthy of consideration by voters.

Much contention and strife will arise in that house where the wife shall get up dissatisfied with her husband.

The clergy are ready and willing to marry anybody and everybody, age to youth, vice to virtue, and no questions asked, as a certain class of advertisements put it. Yet the clergy set their faces most sternly against divorce. To protest against such discordant unions as they again and again ratify would be an interference with the liberty of the subject. But to oppose anything that facilitates divorce is a most serious interference with the liberty of the subject.

About my marriage life, it has been pretty painful, pretty sad. I can't say there was no unpleasantness at all. I can't say it was smooth and happy or anything. There were lot of painful experiences we both went through.

When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.

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.