How Marriage Works Quotes

#1. And I'm sorry," Big Earrings said, "But how is some course going to teach them how marriage works? I've been married three times, and I haven't figured it out yet." She snorted. "I figured out how to call a lawyer, though.

Kristin Walker

#2. the only combination that works for marriage is to make God the One and your spouse the two. When

Craig Groeschel

#3. I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm ... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.

Ethan Hawke

#4. A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.

Nuno Bettencourt

#5. No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.

Merle Shain

#6. I don't think she can see her husband very often, for he teaches the university students during the day, and works at the telescope at night. I wonder if she hopes for cloudy nights and then feels guilty.

Pippa Goldschmidt

#7. When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.

Helen Gahagan

#8. Of course I am," Wax said. "This is my second marriage. I'm an old hand at the practice by now." Wayne grinned. "Oh, is that how it works? 'Cuz in my experience, marryin' is the one thing people seem to get worse at the more they do it. Well, that and bein' alive.

Brandon Sanderson

#9. It's such a strange marriage, a song and someone that sings it. When that works, it really works, and when it doesn't, it doesn't.

Chris Stapleton

#10. Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.

John Milton

#11. A marriage only works if one opens to exactly that which one would never ask for otherwise. Only through rubbing oneself sore and losing oneself is one able to learn about oneself, God, and the world. Like every soteriological pathway, that of marriage is hard and painful.

Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig

#12. It's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works hard to keep things rolling smoothly, someone else sails along for the ride. Someone who would do anything to keep it the way it was in the beginning.

Jodi Picoult

#13. That didn't surprise me; any man with a grain of sense knows that marriage is the only way, these days, to acquire a full-time maid who works twenty-five hours a day. with no time off and no pay except room and board.

Elizabeth Peters

#14. I was in Hollywood. It's the mythology heart. It's where all the European films came in the '30s and '40s. The marriage between Europe and Hollywood has always been the best when it works.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#15. Fifth, the redemptive-historical significance of marriage as a divine symbol in the Bible only works if the marital couple is a complementary pair.

Kevin DeYoung

#16. If it works, don't fix it; do more of it.

Michele Weiner-Davis

#17. I'm a Christian. Years ago, I went broke, so I decided to run every part of my life according to the Bible. It sounds hokey, but it works. You run your marriage that way, and it works. It will work with business, too, and finances. Treat people like you want to be treated.

Dave Ramsey

#18. I'm hopeful that people don't give up on marriage. When it works, it's a gift from God because you can't always have it work out the way you want.

Thomas Mullen

#19. When a marriage works, it is in no small part because a woman and a man have come to recognize in precise measure when enough has been said.

Laurence Shames

#20. A Happy Love-Life happens to the one who works hard at what he KNOWS about it. In all thy getting, get Knowledge.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#21. We all want something else other than what we have and don't realize what you got works. It works. It does work. You gotta work. Marriage is work. Marriage is a career. It's not an adventure.

Sinbad

#22. You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

Jodi Picoult

#23. It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it.

Dick Smothers

#24. Any man with a grain of sense knows that marriage is the only way, these days, to acquire a full-time maid who works twenty-five hours a day, with no time off and no pay except room and board. (p9)

Elizabeth Peters

#25. We all agree that there is no bright-line litmus test for what works in marriage, or what happiness looks like. That it all comes down to the two people inside the relationship.

Emily Giffin

#26. Well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [ ... ]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!

Charles Bukowski

#27. After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.

Mark Twain

#28. Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.

Jonathan Sacks

#29. Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

Gloria Steinem

#30. Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.

Paul Newman

#31. Katherine feels that she must have learned something about marriage from being married before that is now working to her benefit. However, she doesn't know quite what it is, or how, actually, it works.

Joy Williams

#32. What's that saying? Behind every gorgeous woman, there's a man sick of screwing her? Well, it works both ways. No one mentions that part.

Taylor Jenkins Reid