Twenty Years Of Marriage Quotes

#1. It was possible for couples to not discover that they are in profound disagreement over the very fundamentals of life until ten or twenty years of marriage.

Julian Fellowes

#2. I think I've scratched the surface after twenty years of marriage. Women want chocolate and conversation.

Mel Gibson

#3. Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

Oscar Wilde

#4. I told you before, I don't want out of this marriage. And if you give me nothing but daughters for the next twenty years, I would consider myself blessed.

Natasha Anders

#5. She thought that they could live together for twenty years and he might never consider asking her about marriage. Tom didn't follow the usual patterns.
If marriage was what she wanted, then she would have to be the one to propose to him.

Bonnie Dee

#6. Their marriage, I knew then, as I must have always known- their marriage was like a long drink of water so icy it turns the teeth to diamonds in your mouth. A drink of water from a frozen fountain, twenty years long.

Laura Kasischke

#7. My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.

Rodney Dangerfield

#8. Gary Nixon and I have had a loving, committed, faithful relationship for twenty-five years (now over 30) yet we are denied more than a thousand rights and protections that go automatically with marriage.

Mel White

#9. The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep

A.P. Herbert

#10. The regrets about all she had let go flooded her. Where had all that enterprise gone? All that energy? Why had she never traveled? Or had more sex when she could? She had bleached and annihilated every waking moment of the last twenty years. Anything, rather than feel.

Rachel Joyce

#11. She returned to him, pressed his cheeks in her hands. "My eccentric old man, thinking you could fly."
"This time, only my words will fly," he said solemnly. They both cracked up. Almost twenty years together and if blazing heat had turned to warmth, humor, it was less wild but easier to sustain.

Lauren Groff

#12. After twenty-five years of marriage, they could see each other clearly without having to look.

Orson Scott Card

#13. If we lived forever, there would be time to recover from mistakes of twenty years duration.

Elizabeth Harrower

#14. They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!

Lea DeLaria

#15. Going through a divorce after twenty-five years of marriage was the most difficult time for me. It was challenging to reorient my life from being centered around family, a family home, and a long-term relationship.

Tim Matheson

#16. Tillie studied her mother's face. The face which had seen thirty-seven years of life. Twenty-one years of marriage. The birth of ten babies. The death of one.

Deeanne Gist

#17. I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself.

H.L. Mencken

#18. A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.

Mignon McLaughlin

#19. A husband and wife found themselves in love with each other for the first time after twenty-seven years of marriage.

Honore De Balzac

#20. I will show you the same amount of mercy given to your family. You turned your back on twenty-five years of marriage, destroyed the family unit, and put everyone through years of heartbreak and therapy.

Virginia Aird

#21. I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!

Susan B. Anthony

#22. Then a far more grotesque and insulting marriage was arranged between the twenty-year-old John Woodville and Katherine Neville, Warwick's aunt and the dowager duchess of Norfolk. Katherine was not only a four-time widow but also about sixty-five years old.

Dan Jones