Browsing Topic Best Happy Marriage Quotes

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don’t find very often, then that is what love is all about.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day.

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.

The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.

The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends.

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through — a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you’re not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship — a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn’t. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.

A happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?

The secret to a happy marriage is a sense of humor, because marriage throws you curveballs. It is not easy.

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

My parents deeply and truly loved each other, and if my mother hadn’t died they would have been together forever. They were together for as much of forever as was given to them. They really loved my brother and me and were very good to us. It gave the model of how to have a happy marriage and family, but it also set the bar very high.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.

When there are kids involved, there’s no such thing as divorce.

My characters always start well in movies. Almost every movie I’ve done starts with a happy marriage, it’s all beautiful, wealthy, whatever… and then of course my husband leaves me, and everything falls apart.

So it would be a happy marriage between the movement and the vocal and uh, this is the thing that you give a lot of consideration to.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

Seek a happy marriage with wholeness of heart, but do not expect to reach the promised land without going through some wilderness together.

The secret to a happy marriage is patience and honesty. I really mean that. You have to be patient, you have to be open, and you also have to be available for criticism, too.

I’ve got a happy marriage, which is the most important singular thing.

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

Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.

Married women are far more depressed than married men – in unhappy marriages, three times more; and – interestingly – in happy marriages, five times more. In truth, it is men who are thriving in marriage, now as always, and who show symptoms of psychological and physical distress outside it. Not only their emotional well-being but their very lives, some studies say, depend on being married!