Quotes on Marriage Advice

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

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

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

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.

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

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

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.

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.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

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