IMPROVE YOUR MARRIAGE - Don't Overlook The Obvious
(NOT your typical marriage book)
MARRIAGE QUOTES Some humorous. Some not. But, all offer something to think about. Each week we will try to add at least 1 new quote.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper, from the state. - Kathleen Norris
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is, I'll get married again. - Clint Eastwood.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. - Benjamin Franklin
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. - Zsa Zsa Gabor
Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest. - Yoko Ono
Never go to bed mad -- stay up and fight. - Phyllis Diller
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. - James C. Dobson
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. - Isadora Duncan
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at
all. - Helen Rowland
Some people ask the
secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a
week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I
go Fridays. - Henny Youngman
A simple pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married peolple in the midst of life achieve it. - Ann Landers
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in
shade. - Leo Buscaglia
One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until maybe you fall
in again. - Judith Viorst
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. - Joseph Barth
The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together. - Robert C Dodds
I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. - Anna Quindlen
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle
is objective and honest--never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and
constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal
partnership. - Ann Landers
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity. - Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. - Mignon McLaughlin
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
- Helen Rowland
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal. - Louis K. Anspacher
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. - Doug Larson
My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met. - Rodney Dangerfield
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of
the deal. - Anne Lamott
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. - Groucho Marx
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must
love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.” - Helen Rowland
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? - Barbra Streisand
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. - James C. Dobson
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should
live next door and just visit now and then. - Katherine Hepburn
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence
mutual, and the obligation reciprocal. - Louis K. Anspache
A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. - African Proverb
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the
worse. - Doug Larson
In Hollywood, a marriage is considered successful if it outlasts milk. - Rita Rudner
My husband said he needed more space. So I locked him outside. - Roseanne Barr
Do not marry a man to reform him. That is what reform schools are for. - Mae
West
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. - Rodney Dangerfield
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." - Erich Fromm
Bigamy is having one husband or wife too many. Monogamy is the same. - Oscar
Wilde
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. - Anonymous
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the
same person. - Mignon McLaughlin
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers. -
Alan King
The man who has no secrets from his wife either has no secrets or no wife. - Gilbert Wells
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished - Zsa Zsa Gabor
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? - Barbara Streisand
Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat. - Joanne Woodward
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers. - Alan King
Men marry women with the hope they
will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly
they are both disappointed. - Albert Einstein
Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse. - Groucho Marx
How do you keep your husband from reading your email? Rename the mail folder "Instruction Manuals". - Author unknown
My wife and I have the secret to making a marriage work. Twice a week, we go to a nice restaurant, have a little wine, nice food. She goes Tuesdays and I go Fridays. - Henny Youngman
I love being married. It's great to find that one special person you want to annoy
for the rest of your life. -- Rita Rudner
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. -- Dr. Karl Bowman
Love is friendship set on fire. -- Jeremy Taylor
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is
the triumph of hope over experience. -- Either Samuel Johnson or Oscar Wilde
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