Top 100 Good Marriage Quotes
#1. To me, the difference between a good marriage and a great marriage is conviction.
Diane Greene
#2. 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
#3. Or, for one of our mothers, the secret to a good marriage, she said, was sex.
TaraShea Nesbit
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.
Carl Jung
#10. I do think the secret to a good marriage is separate bathrooms.
Heather Dubrow
#11. 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
#12. A good marriage is really good after serving together in Washington, D.C.
George W. Bush
#13. A good marriage is a contest of generosity.
Diane Sawyer
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Nothing brings more joy than a good marriage, and nothing brings more misery than a bad marriage.
Billy Graham
#19. A person does not leave a good marriage for someone else.
Doris Day
#20. A good marriage is at least 80% good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
Nanette Newman
#21. 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
#22. Like a good marriage, trust on a team is never complete; it must be maintained over time.
Patrick Lencioni
#23. I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.
Meryl Streep
#24. I used to have a theory actually that, if you've had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of money in the bank, you're going to make a lousy comedian.
David Steinberg
#25. I see a good marriage as being like two tall trees growing beside each other, each nourishing the grace of the other.
Lawrence Fagg
#26. Momma and Daddy have a good marriage and friendship.
Ebony Tanya
#27. If you're in a good marriage, you have the sense that it won't be forever.
Jenny Slate
#28. The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time!
Heinz Kohut
#29. The basis of a good marriage, a reasonably happy marriage - don't delude yourself, there is no such thing as an entirely happy marriage - is, precisely, inequality.
Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera
#30. To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart - about a finger's breadth - for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule.
Marnie Reed Crowell
#31. Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#32. 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
#33. A good marriage is one of the most precious gifts from God,
Diana Gabaldon
#34. The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.
Anita Ekberg
#35. If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel De Montaigne
#36. 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
#37. They had a good marriage, a solid relationship that had endured its ups and downs because they'd learned from the mistakes they'd made during their tumultuous beginning. What they'd built together was open and honest and there wasn't anything they couldn't talk about with one another.
Kimberley Reeves
#38. A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection.
Dallin H. Oaks
#39. It's the strings vibrating at the same time but separately that makes a good marriage. It messy, it's complicated and it's quite wonderful.
Hector Elizondo
#40. Two can keep secret if the one is dead. (A Good Marriage by Stephen King)
Deyth Banger
#41. I have to let myself be vulnerable in order to have a good marriage. That's something I'm really going to have to work on. A lot of times I'm really guarded because of what I do for a living, what I've done in my life.
John Rzeznik
#42. But as my dear friend and relationship sponsor Louis CK has noted, divorce is always good news because no good marriage has ever ended in divorce.
Amy Poehler
#43. A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.
Michel De Montaigne
#44. A good marriage takes effort, and honesty is a definite prerequisite.
Julie Garwood
#45. 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
#46. She can put her life in Mitch's strong hands and fall at once into a dreamless sleep. In a sense, that is what marriage is about-a good marriage-a total trusting with your heart, your mind, your life.
Dean Koontz
#47. I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.
Tori Amos
#48. A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.
Debra Winger
#49. A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
Nicholas Sparks
#50. I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over. Sometimes these desert lines are simply the only way to the next oasis, which is far more lush and beautiful after the desert crossing than it could possibly have been without it.
Madeleine L'Engle
#51. Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.
Jimmy Dean
#53. It's not easy having a good marriage
but I don't want easy. Easy doesn't make you grow. Easy doesn't make you think. I thank God everyday that I am married to a man who makes me think. That's my definition of true love.
Madonna
#54. I don't think it's more difficult for actors to have a good marriage than anyone. I think, in the end, a really important component of any relationship is honesty, and it also comes down to luck.
Cate Blanchett
#55. 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
#56. Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes it yours.
Stephen King
#57. You're not just going out there, maybe sacrificing your own life. There's also sacrifices still going on at home. You can serve in the military and have a good marriage, but you just need to be aware of it so you can take those steps to take care of it.
Chris Kyle
#58. A good marriage can be ruined by poor communications - and by forgetting to put the lid back down.
Gene Simmons
#59. There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
Martin Luther
#60. A good marriage isn't something you find; it's something you make.
Gary L. Thomas
#61. My wife often said that a good marriage consists of two good forgivers.
Billy Graham
#62. Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting.
Margaret Millar
#63. A good marriage was full of moments of cats and dogs. It was the uneventful marriage that was headed toward disaster. In a word, the differences between the husband and the wife should only help stabilize their marriage.
Ha Jin
#64. I am not married yet, but I think ultimately in a good marriage it is the relationship which is the most important thing. It is not a matter of who is right and who is wrong; it is a one plus one equals more than two.
Lawrence Bender
#65. People are often enamored with my Super Bowl ring. But it's my wedding ring that I'm most proud of. And having a good marriage takes even more work than winning a Super Bowl.
Trent Dilfer
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. A good marriage shuts out a very great deal.
May Sarton
#69. 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
#70. A good marriage is like Dr Who's Tardis: small and banal from the outside but spacious and interesting from within.
Katharine Whitehorn
#71. A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
Rainer Maria Rilke
#73. In marriage, the point is not to achieve a rapid union by tearing down and toppling all boundaries. Rather, in a good marriage, each person appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude and thus shows him the greatest faith he can bestow.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#74. A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world.
Robert Breault
#75. Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?
Brigitte Bardot
#76. 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
#77. I wasn't sure anymore what made a good marriage. There had to be love, of course, but there were so many different kinds of love. And clearly, some love was more enduring than others.
Janet Evanovich
#78. A good marriage is supposed to be one where each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better deal.
Anne Lamott
#79. I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.
Lauren Bacall
#80. Remember, a good marriage is like a campfire. Both grow cold if left unattended.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#81. The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.
Sacha Guitry
#82. Every good marriage must be a friendship between two people who are willing to sacrifice for the other person.
Jim George
#84. What makes for a good marriage isn't necessarily what makes for a good romantic relationship. Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane and often boring non-profit business. And I mean this in a good way.
Lori Gottlieb
#85. The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#86. 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
#87. I hope you fall in love with someone nice and have a good marriage. I might end up dying without knowing what it's like to be in love.
Koushun Takami
#88. It's nice to be able to work; I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it.
Joan Cusack
#89. 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
#90. A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
Anne Lamott
#91. 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
#92. A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables."
James Dobson
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. (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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring ... I ought to know.
Bette Davis
#100. 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
