Marriage Advice Quotes

Love without sacrifice is like theft

Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

Seek a happy marriage with wholeness of heart, but do not expect to reach the promised land without going through some wilderness together.

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.

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

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

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

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

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

God speaks with authority on every subject including marriage and His advice trumps Oprah's every time.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Grow up, Bailey." "That is precisely what I'm doing," Bailey says. "I don't care if you don't understand that. Staying here won't make me happy. It will make you happy because you're insipid and boring, and an insipid, boring life is enough for you. It's not enough for me. It will never be enough for me. So I'm leaving. Do me a favor and marry someone who will take decent care of the sheep.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

Sometimes the person that excites you most isn't necessarily going to make the best husband or wife. It takes a lot to see past the glamor and glitter when you're looking to get married and look for someone who's going to be a loving companion that will stand by your side no matter what and better you while also seeking to be bettered by you.

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.

Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.

The first duty of love is to listen.

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.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

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.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

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

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don't expose it to the elements. You don't make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.

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

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

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

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

Let there be spaces in your togetherness

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

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

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

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

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

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

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.