Marital Advice Quotes

“You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.”
― Chris Fabry, A Marriage Carol

“Never allow yourself to become a choice in any relationship. The moment you do is when you have reduced your loved one's affections to a daily biological question: Should I take a dump here or wait till I get home?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Some day you will look back on these days as the happiest of your life. You will forget your financial struggles. You will forget the unfair division of duties. You will forget feeling trapped and smothered, imagining that you are in a loveless marriage. You will only remember the joy of a young family, working together making your way through an unfamiliar world. Appreciate what you have now.
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― Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters

“Marriage is a full-time job; wooing is your application, courtship your interview, engagement your job offer, and honeymoon, your orientation.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Like your marriage, everything in the universe is trying to find its orbit. In the midst of this constant readjustment, both partners should be able to go to bed knowing that neither one is going to abandon a wounded, or struggling marriage. There is a comforting reassurance being with someone who keeps their promise.
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― Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters

“In marriage, those who persevere are rewarded with the most precious thing this earth has to offer: Marital love--a partnership that conquers the years. It takes time, but those who persevere are rewarded with, falling in love with their spouse.
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― Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters

“Go through the proper motions each day and you'll soon begin to feel the corresponding emotions!”
― George W. Crane

“علينا ان نعترف ونشكف لشبابنا وفتياتنا بصدق التبعات المروعة للسلوكيات التي تشجعها ثقافتنا، حتى يكون بإمكانهم اتخاذ قرارات مبنية على معرفة كاملة. الأشخاص الوحيدون الذين يتمتعون بحماية كاملة هم الذين – ومعم أزواجهم أو زوجاتهم – انتظروا حتى الزواج، والذين ما إن تزوجوا حتى التزموا الإخلاص.”
― Miriam Grossman, Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student

“If God had a wife He would be in just as much trouble as any man.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“My disadvantages will tire him as they would any reasonable man of small expectations." - Jane Adams”
― Noorilhuda, The Governess

“I hope you smile, laugh, and maybe even learn something that will help you along the way to happily-ever-after.”
― T.N. Carpenter, Along the Way to Happily-Ever-After . . .: A Humorous Guide to Weathering the Newlywed Years and Creating a Happy and Lasting Marriage

“Couples tend to think that being single is always singular. Singles tend to believe that being a couple is always copulatory.”
― Raheel Farooq

“Be calm when your wife yells at you, calmer when she chastens you, but be terrified when she ignores you.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Treat marriage like a diamond necklace; if broken, fix it, but do not throw it away.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The world’s most lethal venom is not found on the tongues of serpents, but on the tongues of a disgruntled wife.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“As a wife, if you want to have peace, submit to your husband. As a husband, if you want to progress, love your wife. For these are the whole duties and benefits of marriage.”
― Ned Bryan Abakah

“For those of you well-acquainted with making mistakes, it's more likely that your spouse will stay your best friend as long as the phrase 'I'm Sorry' stays your second.”
― Criss Jami