Marriage Advice Quotes

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Ruth Graham

Love, Friendship, Relationship

Ruth Bell Graham, Gigi Tchividjian (2009). “A Quiet Knowing”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc

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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Theodore Hesburgh

Love, Inspirational, Funny

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There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.

Ronald Reagan

Love, Marriage, Wedding

Kiron K. Skinner, Ronald Reagan, Annelise Anderson, Martin Anderson (2004). “Reagan: A Life In Letters”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Henry Ford

Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Zig Ziglar

Inspirational, Funny, Life

FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jun 28, 2013

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Thoughtfulness is like a glue that hold a married couple together. Be creative and consistent in finding thoughtful ways to show your spouse that you love them and they are always on your mind.

Dave Willis

Love, Relationship, Marriage

FaceBook post by Dave Willis from Mar 10, 2017

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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

Leo Tolstoy

Relationship, Marriage, Wedding

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

Love, Relationship, Anniversary

Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

Love, Funny, Life

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Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

Ogden Nash

Inspirational, Life, Marriage

Ogden Nash, “A Word To Husbands”

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But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Khalil Gibran

Love, Marriage, Dance

Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

Family, Marriage, Funny Love

Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1738

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Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rita Rudner

Funny, Marriage, Pain

Rita Rudner (2008). “I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething”, p.86, Crown Archetype

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Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Simone Signoret

Love, Anniversary, Marriage

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One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

Judith Viorst

Love, Marriage, Funny Valentines Day

Judith Viorst (1987). “Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.”, Fireside

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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

Funny, Relationship, Anniversary

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Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.

Ravi Zacharias

Marriage, Emotional, Needs

FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jul 19, 2013

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Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.

Groucho Marx

Love, Marriage, People

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At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

Lakshmi Mittal

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Helen Rowland

Funny, Birthday, Marriage

Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.53, Lulu.com

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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

Phyllis Diller

Funny, Anniversary, Marriage

Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints (1966)

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Cass Daley

Marriage, Wedding, Women

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It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Marriage, Husband, Wife

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To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

Robert Breault

Love, Marriage, Wedding

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