marriage wisdom Quotes

Happy wife, happy life. I think every man learns that quick. Really quick.

Marriage is great. It'll calm you down - that and neutering.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.

The best piece of advice I received before I got married was, "Be careful what you say when you're in a fight, because it could stick in someone's head." I don't think I've ever said anything I really regretted. I'm very sympathetic to women. I've really studied wife-ology, and I know you've got to figure out the feelings. Deal with the feelings.

To marry a fool is to be no fool.

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.

The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without ceasing.

I’m doing pretty well. If you don’t get married, you can’t get divorced. Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?

The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe.

Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.

People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.

It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

When brides ask me, "What's the best advice you can give me on my wedding day?" I always have the same answer: "Be yourself." Someone's marrying you, they love you for who you are, and they don't want you to be someone else.

The secret to a good marriage, as far as I am concerned, is a joke I make: Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.

No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married.