Mason Cooley Quotes

Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.

It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.

I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.

Why do so many marriages fail? Because nobody gets taught how to be married. We're not taught how to pick a mate, or why to pick a mate; we don't know how to manage our emotions once we're in a marriage; we don't know how to resolve marital conflict. Married people have never been taught why they or their spouses feel the way they do and act the way they do. Nobody has ever taught us the fundamentals.

I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

Even married people have differences of opinion, I'm told.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

There is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument—and that is to avoid it.

One should not maintain a dispute.

Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

The first year of marriage, you definitely get to throw the wife card out whenever you're mad.

Most of the time, husbands and wives argue about stupid, foolish things. If it doesn't mean that much to you, give in to your wife.

I've got a good imagination, so I can see someone arguing over a parking ticket and imagine they're getting a divorce or something.

I won't sleep until I have resolved an issue with my husband.

Never stand in the middle of two people having a fight, because you'll always come off worse.

I think with time you don't have an option but to listen to your wife.

You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.

Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy.

Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings.