Top 17 Making Marriage Work Quotes
#1. I just read 'The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.' To be married 25 years, you have to put as much energy as I put into being an actor or being a great football player into being a better husband and a better father.
Terry Crews
#2. Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such
as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association
the going will be hard indeed.
Phyllis McGinley
#3. When someone leaves you, it doesn't give you permission to run away from yourself too.
Dodinsky
#5. Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business.
Phyllis McGinley
#6. The mere idea that you are not in a place for the rest of your life gives you an awfully unstable feeling. That's why trial marriages would never work. You've got to feel you're in a thing irrevocably and forever in order to buckle down and really put your whole mind into making it a success.
Jean Webster
#7. What the fuck do you want?" After a pause, he said in a firm voice, "This is Dylan Keeley, the guy who would've killed to trade places with you until five minutes ago." He met my eyes. "She doesn't want to talk to you. Now why don't you go back to screwing your prom queen and let me do the same.
Jeri Smith-Ready
#8. When I look into the eyes of an animal, I do not see an animal. I see a living being. I see a friend. I feel a soul.
Anthony Douglas Williams
#9. All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard work of making their marriages happy."
Linda Miles
#10. She said you had to know that which could save you, for it could probably also kill you.
Ilie Ruby
#11. What attracted me to it, beyond it being really intelligent, was that it was sadly something that would be unique on television. Anchoring this political show is this vital, dynamic, complex, thriving marriage. These people are passionately and fiercely committed to making it work out.
Tim Daly
#12. It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart.
Simon Blackburn
#13. 1. Do consumers recognize that they have the problem you are trying to solve?
2. If there was a solution, would they buy it?
3. Would they buy it from us?
4. Can we build a solution for that problem?
Ries Eric
#15. The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.
Ronald Reagan
#16. It's easier to say (I'm going to be myself and if anyone wants to be with me, then she/he has to accept me as I am ... flaws and all) than it is for us to work at reducing our flaws and making ourselves more acceptable.
Darrell Roberts
#17. Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.
Chuck Palahniuk