Brad Garrett Quotes

Marriage is a blood sport. Marriage is jousting. It's disembowelment. It's just terrible, terrible visceral injuries. It's not for everybody.

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

Everyone knows marriage is tough.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.

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

I think when you're in a relationship, either you have something or your partner generally has something that you're having to deal with.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.'

All marriages have their phases.

Part of my purpose in my books has been to tell the complete story of a relationship and a marriage, not just to end with 'happily ever after,' leaving the protagonists at the altar or in bed... I wanted to show some of the complicated business of actually living a successful marriage.

I have a very intense marriage.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

If it's not working before you get married, marriage isn't going to fix it.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand.

Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thing in the world.

Y'know, every relationship is different. There are good marriages, bad marriages, connected partners, unconnected partners.

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.

Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.

The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.