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I just read 'The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.' To be married 25 years, you have to put as much energy as I put into being an actor or being a great football player into being a better husband and a better father. -- Terry Crews
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier. -- Mary Wesley
I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness. -- Bethenny Frankel
I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them. -- Helen Reddy
I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage. -- Stephanie Mills
I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily. -- J. Paul Getty
It's a lot of work to make a marriage work. Just because you have been married for a while doesn't mean you can sit back and relax. You still have to be on your toes. A marriage needs constant attention. -- Malaika Arora Khan
I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't. -- Emily Watson
I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone. -- Faith Hill
I'd love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, 'How do you make your marriage work?' I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He's this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor. -- Sherri Shepherd
Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was really interested in the technical CG side of things. I'd never done a movie that I thought would be so physical and yet so precise. So I was intrigued by all of that. -- Neil Patrick Harris
Marriage is hard work, period. -- Kyle Chandler
Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen. -- Lara Stone
I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't. -- Diane Abbott
It's so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work. -- Courteney Cox
The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great. -- Liz Smith
I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have. -- Sarah Ferguson
Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people. -- Katherine Heigl
I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage. -- Jim Talent
You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different. -- Bethenny Frankel
Marriage is a commitment, so you always have to work at it. -- Eva Longoria
Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business. -- Phyllis McGinley
Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer. -- Sigourney Weaver
Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience. -- Haruki Murakami
It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it. -- Dick Smothers
Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else. -- Josh Turner
Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship. -- Gloria Allred
Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art. -- Jonathan Sacks
Clear communication. Respect. A lot of laughter. And a lot of orgasms. That's what makes a marriage work. -- Dr. Dre
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home. -- Elizabeth Edwards
Maybe the point is that any marriage is work, but you may as well pick work that you like. -- Mindy Kaling
Any marriage is hard work. But what I always say is, Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty. -- Kevin Bacon
Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with ... -- Shirley Hazzard
Marriage isn't for the weak or lazy. It's work, and it should be. What would be the point otherwise? -- J.D. Robb
There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards. -- Ossie Davis
There's nothing more devastating in a marriage than when a spouse puts their work, their desires above their partner's heart. -- Solange nicole
Writing a biography is not a love affair. It's not a marriage. It's a job, it's a piece of work. -- Hermione Lee
The secret to a long and healthy marriage is to work at it and don't try and change each other. -- Jack LaLanne
In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart. -- Matt Chandler
When I get married I'm going to make the marriage work. Getting married is forever, no matter what my spouse does. -- Sarah Mlynowski
I've been married twice and I've tried to make it work but I feel I haven't had a real marriage yet. -- Jennifer Lopez
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce
You have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a strong foundation of love. -- Robin Wright
Marriage is like a row boat: it fits two, it doesn't work on auto-pilot and it's very difficult to have sex in. -- Dana Gould
Before you and your spouse can work as a team raising your children, you must first work as a team in your marriage. -- Jim George
I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work. -- Princess Diana
After a long time in laboratories, psychologists have discovered the holy grail of a happy marriage: I applied it and it didn't work -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
[Hillary Clinton chose to make her marriage work. That is just outrageous.]It speaks of the sexism and the misogyny in this election [2016]. -- Star Jones
Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged. -- Al Goldstein
I want my kids to enjoy romance as part of the entirety of marriage, when it has been earned with commitment and hard work. -- Amy E. Spiegel
Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb. -- Miroslav Volf
My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage. -- Kenneth G. Wilson
Warren Beatty once quipped that the best time for a wedding was noon, because if the marriage didn't work, you hadn't screwed up the entire day. -- Peter Biskind
I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it's a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work. -- Alicia Keys
I will always stand firm to protect the sanctity of marriage. I believe it is important to work with people to find common ground on difficult issues. -- George W. Bush
The marriage-based society...discourages all the competing alternatives to marriage. You can't have a marriage-based society and a social value of sexual freedom. They don't work together -- Scott Lively
There are many types of marriage relationships and all of them can work, but none is sadder than the one that doesn't represent peace in your heart. -- Shannon L. Alder
I honestly thought my marriage would work because me and the wife did share a sense of humour. We had to really, because she didn't have one. -- Frank Skinner
The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage. -- Al Goldstein
Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much. -- Aristotle
In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but I hope it alludes to it. -- Dumitru Tepeneag
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs. -- Mark Gungor
There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage. -- Phil McGraw
Trying to describe a good marriage is like trying to describe your adrenal glands. You know they're in there functioning but you don't really understand how they work. -- Helen Gurley Brown
Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit. -- Brian Littrell
well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work! -- Charles Bukowski
Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life's expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
I'm hopeful that people don't give up on marriage. When it works, it's a gift from God because you can't always have it work out the way you want. -- Thomas Mullen
The only way you can make a marriage work is as free, independent people. It needs to be based on the good feelings that you have for each other, not on need. -- Alexander Lowen
Being a part of a political party is something like being a partner in a marriage - work at it and stay loyal to it, and when you can't stomach it any longer, leave it. -- Judy LaMarsh

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