Bad Marriage Quotes

• Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.

  Frank Pittman

  Marriage, Cheating, Husband And Wife

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• A bad marriage is worse than no marriage at all.

  Neil Clark Warren

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• So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Drama, Knowing, People

  "Ellen DeGeneres Sits Down with The Four Agreements Author don Miguel Ruiz". www.oprah.com. October 2001.

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Motivational, Friendship

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• Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Night, Clown

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [20]

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• A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Marriage, Letting Go, Machines

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales”, p.241, tredition

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• A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

  Charlie Munger

  Knowing, Want, Etc

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• Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.

  Joe Rogan

  Marriage, Coke, Psycho

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• There is no going back to a time when most women will feel compelled to enter or stay in a bad marriage just for economic security or social respectability. So today, the best way to get women once more interested in getting married and having children is for men to accept women's new insistence on equality. This is, I think, why educated women in America, are now more pro - marriage and more disapproving of divorce than other groups of women who have less experience with egalitarian partners or less clout in getting their needs met in relationships.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Children, Divorce, Men

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I'm still going on bad dates when by now I should be in a bad marriage.

  Laura Kightlinger

  Funny Relationship, Dating, Should

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• Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Marriage, Sympathy, Divorce

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.122, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'.

  Susan Sarandon

  Mean, People, Advice

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• Nothing will undermine your effectiveness as a leader faster than a bad marriage.

  Michael Hyatt

  Effectiveness, Leader, Faster

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• No one would wish a bad marriage on anyone. But where do we think good marriages come from? They don't spring full blown from the head of Zeus any more than does a good education...Why should a marriage require fewer tears and less toil and shabbier commitment than your job or your clothes or your car?

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Marriage, Jobs, Spring

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• Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands.

  Doris Lessing

  Two, People, Depth

  Doris Lessing (1973). “The Grass is Singing”, p.67, Heinemann

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• Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.

  Matt Taibbi

  War, Stupid, Fire

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• In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.

  Erica Jong

  Friendship, Bad Relationship, Talking

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• Only two things can stop Tiger — injury or a bad marriage.

  Dan Jenkins

  Two, Injury, Tigers

  "His Ownself". www.golfdigest.com. December 12, 2011.

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• I've had diseases that lasted longer than my marriages. You know you are in a bad marriage if you walk down the aisle thinking, 'Is this dress right?

  Nell Carter

  Marriage, Thinking, Dresses

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• Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Community, Faith Community, Courses

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• Y'know, every relationship is different. There are good marriages, bad marriages, connected partners, unconnected partners.

  Sandra Bullock

  Different, Good Marriage, Partners

  "Sandra Bullock Interviewed - 'Premonition'". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 12, 2007.

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• We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Feet, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.169, Harvard University Press

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• But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Robert Downey Jr interview". IndieLondon interview,

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• I have been to more than 80 countries, and there is not one-not one-that I didn't have women coming up to me sharing stories of overcoming major abuse, a bad marriage turning good, etc.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Country, Abuse, Overcoming

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• A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.

  Fannie Hurst

  Marriage, Believe, Winning

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