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Relationship challenges22 quotes
Stand by your man
And show the world you love him,
Keep giving all the love you can. — Tammy Wynette · 1968Marriage must ceaselessly combat a monster that devours everything: habit. — Honore de Balzac · 1829Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end;
Not wedlock-treachery. — John Milton · 1671If 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 · 1602At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter. — Henry Adams · 1907You'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to. — Sean · 1997All 22 quotes →Relationships10 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 · 1602You'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to. — Sean · 1997You'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) · 2004By 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 · 1937He 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 · 1856You know friend, this is a god damn bitch of an unsatisfactory situation. — Jack Twist · 2005All 10 quotes →Marriage5 quotes
Marriage must ceaselessly combat a monster that devours everything: habit. — Honore de Balzac · 1829If 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 · 1602Marriage is like life in this-that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1876Never shall I say that marriage brings more joy than pain. — Euripides · 438 BCOne reproaches a lover, but can one reproach a husband, when his only fault is that he no longer loves? — Madame de La Fayette · 1678Love4 quotes
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 · 1837The course of true love never did run smooth. — William Shakespeare · 1599Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love. — Terence · 166 BCAnd ruined love, when it is built anew,
Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater. — William Shakespeare · 1609Reconciliation3 quotes
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter. — Henry Adams · 1907Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love. — Terence · 166 BCAnd ruined love, when it is built anew,
Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater. — William Shakespeare · 1609Men and women2 quotes
Stand by your man
And show the world you love him,
Keep giving all the love you can. — Tammy Wynette · 1968By 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 · 1937Breaking up1 quote
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 · 1997Broken relationships1 quote
It will be different. If we could just give it another go-round. — Joel Barish · 2004Conflict resolution1 quote
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end;
Not wedlock-treachery. — John Milton · 1671Difficult situations1 quote
You know friend, this is a god damn bitch of an unsatisfactory situation. — Jack Twist · 2005Downsides of marriage1 quote
Marriage is like life in this-that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1876Fading love1 quote
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 · 1602Familiarity breeds contempt1 quote
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 · 1602Infidelity1 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 · 1696Nature of love1 quote
The course of true love never did run smooth. — William Shakespeare · 1599Opposites attract1 quote
I 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 · 1996Working on relationships1 quote
Stand by your man
And show the world you love him,
Keep giving all the love you can. — Tammy Wynette · 1968Yin and yang1 quote
You'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to. — Sean · 1997