“Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.”

“She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.”

“Gotta love your man, Girl you gotta love your man, take him by the hand, make him understand.”

“Love is a handful of seeds, marriage the garden, and like your gardens, Paula, marriage requires total commitment, hard work, and a great deal of love and care. Be ruthless with the weeds. Pull them out before they take hold. Bring the same dedication to your marriage that you do to your gardens and everything will be all right. Remember that a marriage has to be constantly replenished too, if you want it to flourish...”

“The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”

“She promised him she would love him until she was physically unable to anymore and then after when all she could do was hold his photograph.”