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William Shakespeare3 quotes
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more content. — William Shakespeare · 1602The course of true love never did run smooth. — William Shakespeare · 1599And ruined love, when it is built anew,
Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater. — William Shakespeare · 1609Jerry Seinfeld2 quotes
Elaine, breaking up is like knocking over a Coke machine. You can’t do it in one push. You gotta rock it back and forth a few times, and then it goes over. — Jerry Seinfeld · 1997I can’t be with someone like me. I hate myself! If anything, I need to get the exact opposite of me. It’s too much. It’s too much Kramer, I can’t take it. I can’t take it. — Jerry Seinfeld · 1996Alexander Pushkin1 quote
A woman's love for us increases
The less we love her, sooth to say-
She stoops, she falls, her struggling ceases;
Caught fast, she cannot get away. — Alexander Pushkin · 1837Bill (Kill Bill: Volume 2)1 quote
You're not a bad person. You're a terrific person. You're my favorite person, but every once in a while, you can be a real cunt. — Bill (Kill Bill: Volume 2) · 2004Dorothy Parker1 quote
By the time you say you're his,
Shivering and sighing
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying-
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying. — Dorothy Parker · 1937Euripides1 quote
Never shall I say that marriage brings more joy than pain. — Euripides · 438 BCGustave Flaubert1 quote
He took it for granted that she was content; and she resented his settled calm, his serene dullness, the very happiness she herself brought him. — Gustave Flaubert · 1856Henry Adams1 quote
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter. — Henry Adams · 1907Honore de Balzac1 quote
Marriage must ceaselessly combat a monster that devours everything: habit. — Honore de Balzac · 1829Jack Twist1 quote
You know friend, this is a god damn bitch of an unsatisfactory situation. — Jack Twist · 2005Joel Barish1 quote
It will be different. If we could just give it another go-round. — Joel Barish · 2004John Milton1 quote
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end;
Not wedlock-treachery. — John Milton · 1671Madame de La Fayette1 quote
One reproaches a lover, but can one reproach a husband, when his only fault is that he no longer loves? — Madame de La Fayette · 1678Ovid1 quote
So I can't live either without you or with you. — Ovid · 16 BCRobert Louis Stevenson1 quote
Marriage is like life in this-that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1876Sean1 quote
You'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to. — Sean · 1997Sir John Vanbrugh1 quote
No man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so. — Sir John Vanbrugh · 1696Tammy Wynette1 quote
Stand by your man
And show the world you love him,
Keep giving all the love you can. — Tammy Wynette · 1968Terence1 quote
Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love. — Terence · 166 BC