Top 100 Quotes About A Happy Marriage
#1. God is more interested in restoring our hearts to Him, than giving us a happy marriage.
Ngina Otiende
#2. When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails; I let it go off the rails.
Stuart Rose
#3. I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman's life.
Beatrix Potter
#4. When you realise that money doesn't actually make you happy, it's a quick fix to have things you've always wanted, but then when you have it, you realise that's not what actually makes you happy. It's more about having a great marriage and happy children; that's what life's all about.
Shane Filan
#6. There are four pillars to a happy marriage: respect one another as individuals; (give) soft answers; (practice)financial honesty; (conduct) family prayer.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#7. A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.
Eden Phillpotts
#8. You know marriage is like hunger. You yearn for it till you don't get the food. Once the stomach is full, you don't want more on your plate. But then hunger can subside only temporarily. It keeps coming back and that's how exactly a happy married life keeps going on, with all ups and downs.
Shikha Kaul
#9. I have always believed that the key to a happy marriage was the ability to say with a straight face, 'Why, I don't know what you're worrying about. I thought you were very funny last night and I'm sure everybody else did, too.
Judith Martin
#10. Recipe for a happy marriage: My wife and I always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.
Red Skelton
#11. 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
#12. It is easy in retrospect to see why he'd want to go. There are two women who are furious at him. To make one happy, he must take the subway across town and arrive on her doorstep. To make the other happy, he must wear for some infinitely long period of time a hair shirt woven out of her own hair.
Jenny Offill
#13. I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.
James Ellroy
#14. Felt like yesterday, all that bodily joy. Begun so young they didn't even know what they were doing and they wouldn't give it up, so when they were old enough, they married. Not the worst thing to build a marriage around, such juice. The first years had been delirious, the latter ones merely happy.
Lauren Groff
#15. Choosing a mate is not a matter of can they do the job, rather will they. A partner of "potential" doesn't make for a happy marriage. Their actions have to be in line with your needs.
Shannon L. Alder
#17. Creating a happy marriage begins with choosing the right spouse.
Fawn Weaver
#18. A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#19. You can always tell a happy marriage. People in love begin to acquire each other's traits, each other's styles- they begin to look and act alike. They want to please. They admire each other and, naturally enough, want to become what they esteem and cherish.
John Dufresne
#20. Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short ... was she happy? Not for a moment.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#21. 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.
Carole Bouquet
#22. In a happy marriage there is a continuous dense magnetic sense of communication.
Iris Murdoch
#23. 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.
Rebecca West
#24. In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.
John Milton
#25. A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#26. Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.
L. Ron Hubbard
#27. Divorce is not always a doorway to happiness. The same can be said about marriage.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#29. In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
Vendela Kirsebom
#30. I, Kotoko Aihara ... Now Kotoko Irie ... have finally become Irie-kun's wife. And though this may seem like a happy ending, it is actually more of a happy beginning.
Kaoru Tada
#31. I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?
Max Schmeling
#32. My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates
#33. I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfaction in life is difficult. Maybe being happy is as simple as not being unhappy.
Jasper Carrott
#34. Maybe faith was never meant to be some perfectly plotted, passion-driven paperback. Maybe faith is the long story of a happy marriage -- an average life made fuller, not smaller, by the pockets of silence and darkness that break into it.
Addie Zierman
#35. Sergeant Colon owed thirty years of happy marriage to the fact that Mrs. Colon worked all day and Sargent Colon worked all night. They communicated by means of notes. They had three grown-up children, all born, Vimes had assumed, as a result of extremely persuasive handwriting.
Terry Pratchett
#36. Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.
Neil Simon
#37. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and indeed, all the sweets of life.
Mary Engelbreit
#38. She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#39. To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.
P.G. Wodehouse
#40. The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.
Nancy Etcoff
#41. I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage.
Jim Crace
#42. Living with myself wasn't all that easy. I was not the young girl I once was. Once upon a time when I looked in the mirror, I saw this happy glow. Now nothing glowed except the leftover face cream from the night before.
Brenda Perlin
#43. You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.
Elizabeth Cadell
#44. What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo Tolstoy
#45. Big businesses are beginning to realize that the employee who puts his job before his home life is not as effective as the one who has a happy, fulfilling marriage.
Kevin Leman
#46. You know the fairy-tale drill, especially from the Disney versions: the heroines endure awful stuff in rites of passage that lead to a joyous resolution of, usually, marriage to a prince. 'Into the Woods' follows that template, then asks, 'What happens after Happy Ever After?'
Richard Corliss
#47. I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
Maeve Binchy
#48. It is good that a man should have his wife close at hand. It makes the spirit happy and guards against insanity.
Tony D'Souza
#49. 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
#50. Did you really look at the word Engaged, use to be first you go Steady then buy a ring then the woman was so happy that you became 'Engaged'.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#51. Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.
Dennis E. Adonis
#52. [A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which one human being can offer to another in the midst of the devastating intimacy of a happy marriage.
Jan Struther
#53. Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!
Robert A. Heinlein
#54. Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!
Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#55. 7 Principles of a Happy Marriage
Always listen
Be there
Compromise is necessary
Build up trust
A kiss before sleep, a kiss after waking
Never keep score
Do things together
Steven Aitchison
#56. first condition of a happy marriage is the absence of love, and the first condition of an enduring love is the absence of marriage.
Henrik Ibsen
#57. Buttercup's parents did not have exactly what you might call a happy marriage. All they ever dreamed of was leaving each other.
William Goldman
#58. 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.
Bruce Forsyth
#59. If you have a boat and a happy marriage, you don't need another thing.
Ed McMahon
#60. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
Marilyn Monroe
#61. A happy marriage- a love match- is something overwhelming, and overpowering.
Jude Morgan
#62. But love does not mean marriage, a baby, forever. Love means you make me happy until you don't.
A. Igoni Barrett
#63. The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends.
Robert Quillen
#64. Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?
Michelle Pfeiffer
#65. Think to Thank. In these three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, formula for enduring friendship, and a pattern for personal happiness.
Thomas S. Monson
#66. If young people could only realize that a happy marriage depends not only on the present, but upon the past, they would be more reluctant to enter into loose, intimate relations with anyone and everyone.
Billy Graham
#67. It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.
David Byrne
#68. Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.
Irving Layton
#69. I'm very happy with the outcome of the vote. I totally, totally support equal marriage in law. I don't want anybody in society feeling second best. I don't believe that being gay is a sin.
Stephen Crabb
#70. If you pursue the other woman, it's a losing situation and it's not good for your relationship or your marriage. If your marriage is open and you're allowed to, that's no good either. There's no way, really in the end, to be happy unless you get very lucky.
Woody Allen
#71. I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
G.K. Chesterton
#72. Mercifully, I was at that age when reading was still a passion and thus, save for a happy marriage, the best state possible in which to keep absolute loneliness at bay. I could not have made it through those evenings otherwise.
William Styron
#73. Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#74. You know what they say about marriage? A man can either be right or happy.
James Runcie
#75. A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.
Robert Southey
#76. Marriage is just a piece of paper if it's not a happy one.
Phil Lester
#77. It could have been called the scam of the century, their pretense of a happy marriage,yet as several weeks passed and it continued with such perfection, Rebecca had to pinch herself to keep from believing it herself.
Johanna Lindsey
#78. My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself.
Kim Kardashian
#79. A happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.
Ann Landers
#80. The best gift you can give to your kids is a happy marriage.
Ricky Shetty
#81. We will have a happy marriage if it kills him.
Gillian Flynn
#82. There was no such thing as a marriage with one happy spouse. Both must be or neither.
Sherry Thomas
#83. I yearned for a long, happy marriage with one person.
Ginger Rogers
#84. If you want a happy Christ-centered marriage, you must be centered in Christ!
Ngina Otiende
#85. The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
Julia Child
#86. Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home.
Timbaland
#87. I've got a happy marriage, which is the most important singular thing.
Denis Healey
#88. A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.
Debra Winger
#89. I was battling depression, went through a really hard time in my marriage, and I used to cry myself to sleep. I went through years and years of pain and suffering, and finally got help. I feel so much better now, feel like a new person, so now I can be happy about it.
Maureen McCormick
#90. I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - my male friends in particular. And I started wondering if my wife, who was certainly my best friend, supplanted those relationships.
Matthew Weiner
#91. I'm not sure how we got to this place, where a girl's only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy.
Amy Engel
#92. There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
Clint Eastwood
#93. 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.
Amanda Holden
#94. And I know, with the newfuond clarity of being in a relationship myself, that my own parents were never happy together, and probably never would have been, whatever the circumstances
Christina Baker Kline
#95. Of course, these were only dreams. How could a sensible woman leave a happy marriage? All the same, a seductive voice from afar kept breaking into her conjugal peace: it was the voice of solitude.
Milan Kundera
#96. Those first few years of marriage, before the war interrupted all our lives, Phil and I had a very happy time. I grew up considerably, mostly thanks to him.
Katharine Graham
#97. Variety is the spice of life, a truth which, of course, every happy marriage seems to contradict.
Theodor Fontane
#98. A Happy Love-Life happens to the one who works hard at what he KNOWS about it. In all thy getting, get Knowledge.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#99. Not even in a movie had I ever seen a wife with a journey of her own. Marriage was always the happy end, not the beginning. It was the 1950s, and I confused growing up with settling down.
Gloria Steinem
#100. Being a housewife, makes women sick.It may therefore be that married women say they are happy because they are sick.To be happy in a relationship which imposes so many impediments on her, as traditional marriage does, women must be slightly mentally ill
Jessie Bernard
