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• As a man, I've learned that there is nothing easier in married life than pleasing your wife with your cooking.

  Robert Breault

  Men, Wife, Cooking

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• Married life is an existence with bars around it.

  Al Goldstein

  Bars, Married, Life Is

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• I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I started to write in earnest.

  Jean Plaidy

  Writing, Ambition, Childhood

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• American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.

  John Steinbeck

  Marriage, Married, Life Is

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• A wife, if she is very generous, may allow that her husband lives up to perhaps eighty percent of her expectations. There is always the other twenty percent that she would like to change, and she may chip away at it for the whole of their married life without reducing it by very much. She may, on the other hand, simply decide to enjoy the eighty percent, and both of them will be happy.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Husband, Hands, Expectations

  "Feminine Appeal: Seven Virtues of a Godly Wife and Mother". Book by Carolyn Mahaney, 2003.

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• Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

  Novalis

  Men, Literature, Married

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• The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.

  Thornton Wilder

  Life, Marriage, Fighting

  The Matchmaker act 2 (1954)

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• I tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Fun, Feel Better, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Baseball, Children

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• The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Eulogy, Married, Poet

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.14

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• it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Want, Firsts, Married

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “Where There's a Will/The Case of Jennie Brice/The After House”, p.61, Essential Library

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• There's no healthy life possible without some sensual feeling between the husband and wife, but there's nothing in the world more awful than married life when it's the only common ground.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Sex, Husband, Wife

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”

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• There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.

  Muriel Spark

  Divorce, Ideas, Upset

  Muriel Spark (2018). “A Good Comb: The Sayings of Muriel Spark”, p.17, New Directions Publishing

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• Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations.

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

  Jail, Married, Prison

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• Not listening is probably the commonest unkindness of married life, and one that creates - more devastatingly than an eternity of forgotten birthdays and misguided Christmas gifts - an atmosphere of not loving and not caring.

  Judith Viorst

  Marriage, Caring, Atmosphere

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• Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.

  Oscar Wilde

  Husband, Thinking, Blow

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.205, OUP Oxford

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• When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money, their own money, or suitableness for the married life.... Ha, ha, ha! Let us fool in this way no more. I have been in love forty-three times with all ranks and conditions of women, and would have married every time if they would have let me. How many wives had King Solomon, the wisest of men? And is not that story a warning to us that Love is master of the wisest? It is only fools who defy him.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Kings, Men

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• The days were sunny, the nights were star-studded. Indeed married life was strawberries for breakfast and loving all the time.

  Marabel Morgan

  Stars, Night, Breakfast

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• She felt drawing further from her and further from her an Archduke, (she did not mind that) a fortune, (she did not mind that) the safety and circumstance of married life, (she did not mind that) but life she heard going from her, and a lover.

  Virginia Woolf

  Drawing, Safety, Mind

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “Orlando: A Biography”, Chatto & Windus

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• We spent our whole married life in the ultra-competitive world of professional football, Lauren and I had always tried to view it through God's eyes. As much fun as it was to be winning, we tried not to get caught up in it. We knew that our family life and our faith walk were more important.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Fun

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.143, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I counseled a 75-year-old married, bi-sexual man who was having a gay affair and was not having sex with his wife to continue his secret life because that seemed like the kindest thing to do. But a young woman embarking on married life, hoping to start a family with her husband, needs to at least know he's already living a double life.

  Emily Yoffe

  Husband, Gay, Men

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.

  Mason Cooley

  Marriage, Greek, Married

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• ... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,--if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.

  Hortense Odlum

  Marriage, Disappointment, Business

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• A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.

  Stendhal

  Marriage, Heart, Boredom

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.168, World Classic

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• The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Boredom, Overcoming, Married

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

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