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. 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
#5. A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.
Eden Phillpotts
#6. 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
#7. Recipe for a happy marriage: My wife and I always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.
Red Skelton
#8. 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
#9. 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
#11. Creating a happy marriage begins with choosing the right spouse.
Fawn Weaver
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. In a happy marriage there is a continuous dense magnetic sense of communication.
Iris Murdoch
#16. 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
#17. In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
Vendela Kirsebom
#18. I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?
Max Schmeling
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.
Nancy Etcoff
#22. 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
#23. What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo Tolstoy
#24. [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
#25. Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!
Robert A. Heinlein
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. If you have a boat and a happy marriage, you don't need another thing.
Ed McMahon
#31. 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
#32. A happy marriage- a love match- is something overwhelming, and overpowering.
Jude Morgan
#33. 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
#34. Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?
Michelle Pfeiffer
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.
David Byrne
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. A happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.
Ann Landers
#41. The best gift you can give to your kids is a happy marriage.
Ricky Shetty
#42. We will have a happy marriage if it kills him.
Gillian Flynn
#43. 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
#44. I've got a happy marriage, which is the most important singular thing.
Denis Healey
#45. A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.
Debra Winger
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.
Elizabeth Aston
#49. There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
Adam Phillips
#50. People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.'
Jane Asher
#51. A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
#53. A happy marriage is a personal choice. The same way you decide to GET married? It's the same way you decide to STAY happily married!
Ngina Otiende
#54. The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other.
Ezra Taft Benson
#55. The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe.
Denzel Washington
#56. In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
Gerald Brenan
#57. I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization; the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization.
Naguib Mahfouz
#58. You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.
Jeremy Sisto
#59. What makes people laugh? ... It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give.
Erma Bombeck
#60. Sex appeal alone is the poorest basis in the world for a happy marriage.
John R. Rice
#61. 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.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#62. A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers
Robert Quillen
#63. The secret to a happy marriage is a sense of humor, because marriage throws you curveballs. It is not easy.
Ann Romney
#64. The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
Groucho Marx
#65. Ladies, if you want a happy marriage, then do whatever your husband tells you without questioning his authority.
Rush Limbaugh
#66. The home is basically a sacred institution ... Faith in Christ is the most important of all principles in the building of a happy marriage and a successful home.
Billy Graham
#67. The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth. Happiness does not begin at the altar; it begins during the period of youth and courtship.
David O. McKay
#68. Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
Ann Landers
#69. A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre Maurois
#70. Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.
Melina Kanakaredes
#72. 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.
Cindy McCain
#73. Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.
Elbert Hubbard
#74. Seek a happy marriage with wholeness of heart,
but do not expect to reach the promised land
without going through some wilderness together.
Charlie W Shedd
#75. I am satisfied that a happy marriage is not so much a matter of romance as it is an anxious concern for the comfort and well-being of one's companion.
-Gordon B. Hinckley
Gordon B. Hinckley
#76. We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.
Julia Child
#77. 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.
Cholly Atkins
#78. A happy marriage isn't the easiest thing in the world to achieve, but it's much easier to come by than a happy but illicit affair.
Shirley Boone
#79. That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do.
Maxine Kumin
#80. She says food is the secret to a happy marriage." "Food is the secret to a happy life.
Stacey Jay
#81. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.
John Milton
#90. A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#91. Divorce is not always a doorway to happiness. The same can be said about marriage.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
