Hardships Quote by Ada Calhoun

“It had been said that the art of successful marriage lay in choosing the person you could live with rather than the person you…

— Elizabeth Palmer

“Marriages can survive without love, but they cannot survive without forgiveness, fortitude, and a good sense of humor.”

— Anonymous

“No one marries for love, except in stories. People marry for property and position, and one day so will you.”

— Judith James

“Marriage breeds its own special brand of loneliness, and it’s far more cruel. You miss more, because you’ve known more.”

— Melanie Benjamin

“We knew marriage could be difficult in the same way that we knew there were starving children in Africa. It was a tragic fact…

— Jonathan Tropper

“For me the act of marriage has proven, like most of the other disastrous acts of my life, little more than a hedge against…

— Michael Chabon

“Marriage without struggle is like an unfired clay pot. It is easily made, but it will not stand the test of time.”

— Allan Wolf

“Nothing perhaps is so efficacious in preventing men from marrying as the tone in which married women speak of the struggles made in that…

— Anthony Trollope

“Sometimes it strengthens a marriage to see the worst and find the sweetness of happiness later.”

— Christine Merrill

“Far too many couples settle for mediocrity in their marriage when they would never settle for second-best in other areas of their life.”

— Jim Burns

“Marriage is always a hopeless idiocy for a woman who has enough of her own to live upon.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“it shouldn’t be the case that the only route out of poverty is to get married to someone who also has a job.”

— David Cay Johnston