Top 100 A Good Marriage Is Quotes
#2. A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.
Mary Jo Putney
#3. The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.
Carl Jung
#4. I do think the secret to a good marriage is separate bathrooms.
Heather Dubrow
#5. A good marriage is really good after serving together in Washington, D.C.
George W. Bush
#6. A good marriage is a contest of generosity.
Diane Sawyer
#7. A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.
Michel De Montaigne
#8. A good marriage is a lot harder than most people realize. A strong relationship takes everything, and it's rare to find someone willing to give everything these days. So
Chance Carter
#9. A good marriage is not "made in heaven," but on earth. Love is a fragile commodity which needs to be cultivated and nourished constantly.
Billy Graham
#10. A good marriage is at least 80% good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
Nanette Newman
#11. The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time!
Heinz Kohut
#12. Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#13. 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
#14. A good marriage is one of the most precious gifts from God,
Diana Gabaldon
#15. The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.
Anita Ekberg
#16. The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.
Olivia Wilde
#17. A good marriage is good because one or both of them have learned to overlook the other's faults, to love the other as they are and to not attempt to change them or bring them to repentance.
Debi Pearl
#18. A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.
Debra Winger
#19. The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.
Carolyn Heilbrun
#20. A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Pearl S. Buck
#21. The key to a good marriage is to do all you can to uplift your wife and treasure her - even in her worst moments.
Jody Hedlund
#22. I have learnt that a good marriage is healing for the soul, something to relish. But a bad marriage is long-suffering, a thing to be endured. The only good thing about marriage is that it's perishable like human life.
Meghna Pant
#23. A good marriage is like Dr Who's Tardis: small and banal from the outside but spacious and interesting from within.
Katharine Whitehorn
#24. A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
Rainer Maria Rilke
#25. A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world.
Robert Breault
#26. A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.
Willard Scott
#27. A good marriage is supposed to be one where each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better deal.
Anne Lamott
#28. Remember, a good marriage is like a campfire. Both grow cold if left unattended.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#29. The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.
Sacha Guitry
#31. The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#32. The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must
be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.
Frank Pittman
#33. A good marriage is loving someone in a lot of different circumstances. Respect for them and their views and ideas and the life that they're leading with you. Shared values and interests. A good sense of humour. And a little volatility along the way.
Edward Kennedy
#34. A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
Anne Lamott
#35. You're either selfish, or you're a servant ... but fundamentally selfish people are terrible friends, terrible lovers, terrible spouses, terrible Christians, terrible parents. They leave a terrible legacy. Will you be selfish? Will you be a servant? ... A good marriage is a servant and a servant.
Mark Driscoll
#36. A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables."
James Dobson
#37. It's not unlike a marriage, the partnership. All the effort and good intentions in the world can't make things right if you choose poorly in the first place.
Cecilia Grant
#38. Most couples get married because it's time, not because they're in love. They might have money issues, parental pressure, or they're simply tired of being alone - so they pick Mr. Good Enough and tie the knot.
H.M. Ward
#39. (Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.)
Stanley Cavell
#40. To me, the difference between a good marriage and a great marriage is conviction.
Diane Greene
#41. People should be allowed to marry, and gay marriage should be out there. If a man or a woman has a good partner and they love each other with their heart and soul, let them marry. I am very much for gay marriage.
Pierce Brosnan
#42. She was just kind and genuine. Pure, even. I hated that her good heartedness and naivety were going to cost her so dearly because I was going to bust up her marriage and take her husband if it were the last thing I did.
Rhonda McKnight
#43. Mom also hinted a couple of times that it was good I was going to college, since with one failed marriage behind me, I 'd have trouble landing a good husband and would need something to fall back on. "A package that's been opened once doesn't have the same appeal".
Jeannette Walls
#44. An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring ... I ought to know.
Bette Davis
#45. A good marriage drags a long tail of memory behind it. A single word or gesture, a tone of voice can conjure up so many remembrances.
William Landay
#46. Or, for one of our mothers, the secret to a good marriage, she said, was sex.
TaraShea Nesbit
#47. I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in my head. I was always out, always in the saloons, always drinking, always messing about.
Malachy McCourt
#48. The First and Worst sin couples commit against one another is not adultery but Negligence because it's Negligence that breeds adultery..watch it couples , do not hold back in giving that care and attention.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#49. Marriage is a holy bond because it permits two people to help each other work out their spiritual destinies. God declared marriage to be good.
Billy Graham
#50. I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.
Len Goodman
#52. Trust, a sense of humor, and don't let the sun go down on an argument without trying to make it up. That's all I know about good marriage. I've been married a long time - it seems to be working.
Stephen King
#53. Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.
Swami Vivekananda
#54. All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged
after all, what's good enough for Jane Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. But it's a lie. The story is about to begin, and every day will be a new piece of the plot.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#55. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures ...
Stephen King
#56. Men, however, were encouraged to sow their wild oats, but a woman who did so became a social outcast and ruined her chances of making a good marriage.
Alison Weir
#57. Getting enough energy to satisfy the needs of the developing world without bringing on an eco-disaster is not going to be easy. It will require a marriage of science and technology with good international policy, something that is always hard to bring off. We need to get it right this time.
Burton Richter
#58. You want to know the secret to raising good kids?"
"What's that? asked Thomas.
"High expectations."
Thomas laughed. "Alright, well what's the secret to a happy marriage?"
Clyde smiled back, but his face started to fall, and he chose his words carefully. " ... Low expectations.
Chris Nicolaisen
#59. After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
Michel De Montaigne
#60. I told Mama and Savannah about Ruben's proposal. That got us to talking about marriage and we laughed and cried some, and missed Papa, and it felt good to belong to each other. I don't feel as lonely today as I have in months. At least I know there are other women around me.
Nancy E. Turner
#61. I'm used to wild creatures who don't like to be approached from behind."
He shot her a baleful glance. "How fortunate that your experience with animals has turned out to be such good preparation for marriage to me.
Lisa Kleypas
#63. The whole Haley-Nathan marriage deal was a pretty good twist huh? I hope we got all of you with it. That particular story line even suprised me when I read it, it's a good one and it'll provide for some good stories to come.
James Lafferty
#64. Marriage is going to be that happy state in which we get all of the nurturance and care and love and empathy and even good advice that we didn't receive from our families.
Augustus Y. Napier
#65. The real heroes of the Wish Factory are the young men and women who wait like Vladimir and Estragon wait for Godot and good Christian girls wait for marriage.
John Green
#66. When two people achieve lasting happiness, this is not solely because they are great lovers but because they are also - I must put it crudely - good people; controlled, loyal, fair-minded, mutually adaptable people.
C.S. Lewis
#67. I don't respect my husband because he is the man and I am the woman, and it's my "place" to submit to him. I respect Dan because he is a good person, and because he has made me a better person too.
Rachel Held Evans
#68. It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.
Doris Day
#69. The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
Finley Peter Dunne
#70. Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
E.W. Howe
#71. You need to play to your strengths as a couple. Sharing is really awesome when you're messing around with Play-Doh in kindergarten. It's less awesome when you're adults and one of you is good at something and the other person sucks at it. So just let the more skilled person take the reins.
Peter Scott
#72. Even a good family can become a trap for one's destiny when the family becomes your aim
Sunday Adelaja
#73. Would you marry you? Be the right person before seeking the right person. Solomon's bride is carefully chosen for the good of his family, for the good of his kingdom.
pg 9
Michael Ben Zehabe
#74. I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.
Elisabeth Elliot
#75. There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.
Jean De La Bruyere
#76. A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Honore De Balzac
#77. An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#78. I'll follow this good man, and go with you;
And, having sworn truth, ever will be true.
William Shakespeare
#79. Before we learn what's right, we put our trust in the wrong people, and it's never good to start life's adventures, especially important ones like marriage, when we're too young even to know ourselves.
Kristen Ashley
#80. She'd often thought that was what a good marriage would mean. Sometimes she would take on all the burdens, and sometimes her husband would. Most of the time they would share them.
Susan Mallery
#81. Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.
Laurence J. Peter
#82. Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, 'It is not good for a woman to live alone.'
Anna Held
#84. Pop, why didn't you ever marry again?"
"I was a good husband to your mother," Pop said. "I would not be a good husband to another woman. It would not be fair, because I gave everything I had to my first marriage. Love is like that for some people.
Susan Wiggs
#85. Nothing brings more joy than a good marriage, and nothing brings more misery than a bad marriage.
Billy Graham
#86. happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers." ~ Ruth Bell Graham.
Lisa Jacobson
#87. [I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.
Elizabeth I
#88. A person does not leave a good marriage for someone else.
Doris Day
#89. Maybe it's a good idea," said Kathy.
"Why is that?"
"Well - you have a British sensibility."
"What does that mean?"
"I just mean people over there might like it." She gestured in the direction of England.
Charlie Close
#90. I have to wonder at what point the people fighting to protect marriage will realize that traditional couples haven't exactly been doing too good a job of it so far.
Daniel Pearce
#91. First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, 'It must be a good thing to fight for.'
Edmund White
#92. A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.
Euripides
#93. I was a callow boy, and then a man, good and bad. Now at last I'm the hero. I am the one to root for in the never-ending war story of our marriage.
Gillian Flynn
#94. They had as good a shot at making it as anyone did, but what if marriage didn't solve anything and didn't save anyone even a little bit? What then?
Paula McLain
#95. Some days, the music is not in tune, but it's always a song worth singing.
That's the best description of a good marriage I've ever heard ...
Nora Roberts
#96. In the beginning Dave and Marlene's relationship had been fantastic. The sex was amazing. There were other good things too of course, but Dave couldn't always remember exactly what they were. But the sex had been off the scale.
Jackson Radcliffe
#97. For a while I didn't believe in marriage. But I think I do believe in having a love. I'm not saying only one love ever, but in having a good, solid relationship. I think that's possible.
Penn Badgley
#98. And it feels good to feel young with you, and at the same time to grow old with you. And it's all those things together at the same moment.
Dave Isay
#100. Don't turn a good dude who is loyal to his chick into a bad nigga by throwing yourself at him when he is already committed. Know when to stay the hell away.Good men are rare. If he aint single, don't make him unfaithful. Oh Yes, he might cheat with some other chick. It does not have to be you.
Crystal Evans
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