Category Archives: Marriage

For Husbands Only

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The husbands I admire frankly admit that they study their wife – put her under a lens, so to speak, and invest themselves wholeheartedly in learning her natural preferences, her innermost desires and her deepest needs.
— Bruce Wilkinson

An ideal husband is one who treats his wife like a new car.
— Dan Bennet

A happy man marries the girl he loves, but a happier man loves the girl he marries.
— Anonymous

Husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
— Ephesians 5:28

Men, when is the last time you looked your wife in the eyes and said, “I appreciate so much your emphasis on relationships and all you do to build ours up. The things you do to make our house into a home and the time you give to the kids – you’re terrific”?
— Gary and Norma Smalley

A Happy Marriage

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Marriage is not a reform school.
— Ann Landers

You don’t love because, you love despite, not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
— William Faulkner

Can you imagine the ecstatic feeling you would have if your mate volunteered the question, “How can I become a better mate?” The honor you would feel would be overwhelming. So how about asking the question yourself?
— Gary and Norma Smalley

Straighten your problems out before you go to bed. That way you will wake up smiling.
— Louis Fromm

We treat strangers exceedingly well and usually reserve our best attentions for people we work with. Our partner gets missed, lost in the bustle of it all. In fact, we should treat them better than anyone else. After all, they are supposed to be the most important person in the world to us.
— Richard Templar

A Strong Marriage

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Marriage isn’t a 50-50 proposition very often. It’s more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.
— Billie Jean King

The most important single qualification a man should have to marry one of my daughters is infinite kindness. Infinite kindness will sustain a marriage through all its problems, its uncertainties, its illnesses, its disappointments, its storms, its tension, its fear, its separations, its sorrows.
— Branch Rickey

I could tell – even when I was very young – just how much my mom and dad loved each other. I remember when we were kids, if one of them was going out, they gave each other a kiss good-bye. They never argued or fought – at least not in front of us. And they have always said to each other, “I love you.”
— Rebecca Lobo

A successful long-term marriage is not an accident; it takes a lot of work – work that can be far trickier than playing golf.
— M. Scott Peck

An executive might be very involved and dedicated to his or her work, to church and community projects, and to many people’s lives, yet not have a deep, meaningful relationship with his or her own spouse. It takes more nobility of character, more humility, more patience, to develop such a relationship with one’s spouse than it would take to give continued dedicated service to the many.
— Stephen Covey

A Happy Marriage

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To develop the principle of wholeheartedness in marriage, go the second mile in the little, everyday things. Life demands this, because our lives are merely the totality of countless little things.
— Catherine Marshall

Never go to bed angry. Say what annoys you, then finish with “I love you.” Trust me, it makes the morning brighter.
— Joan Rivers

Perhaps most endearing is my dad’s great belly laugh when my irreverent mom tells a joke. In this, he taught me an equally important and valuable lesson – to love and enjoy my spouse in things big and small.
— Jennifer Granholm

The basic remedy for most couples is for each to give more to the other.
— Dr. Theodore Rubin

It takes two people to have a marriage, but only one is necessary to change it. We end up feeling helpless in our marriages because we can’t control our partners. The truth is that we need only learn to control ourselves.
— Melvyn Kinder and Connell Cowan

For Husbands Only

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If you want to be considered great by your wife, start by learning to become a servant. Any time you promote her program or agenda over yours – without grumbling or complaining – you are sacrificially loving her.
— Gary and Norma Smalley

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
— Benjamin Franklin

God desires that a husband and wife function as one person, the strengths of one balancing the weaknesses of the other. One of the biggest mistakes any husband can make is to exclude his “helpmate” from the financial decision process.
— Larry Burkett

Love is linked to self-esteem in woman. For a man, romantic experiences with his wife are warm and enjoyable and memorable – but not necessary. For a woman, they are her lifeblood. Her confidence, her sexual response and her zest for living are often directly related to those tender moments when she feels deeply loved and appreciated by her man.
— James Dobson

A Happy Marriage

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Part of making a marriage – or any relationship, for that matter – work is accepting each other’s differences.
— T.D. Jakes

It is my job to love Billy. It is God’s job to make him good.
— Ruth Bell Graham

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.
— Irving Stone

When viewing your spouse’s imperfections, don’t lose sight of your own.
— Dennis Swanberg

Gentleness (a willingness to decrease our lectures and increase our tender expressions of love) is a key to marital growth. Tenderness acts like a firebreak to an advancing, angry forest fire.
— Gary and Norma Smalley

For Husbands Only

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
— Billy Sunday

Live happily with the woman you love through the fleeting days of life, for the wife God gives you is your best reward down here for all your earthly toil.
— Ecclesiastes 9:9

A woman is invariably drawn to the man who provides loving leadership and resists making self-centered demands.
— Todd Duncan

Treat your wife like a thoroughbred and she’ll never be a nag.
— Anonymous

Your goal should be to become a genuine, loving and tender husband who does not lecture. Lectures during stressful times only create more stress.
— Gary and Norma Smalley