Top 36 Quotes About Good Marriages

#1. Good bread and good butter go together. They are one of the perfect marriages in gastronomy, and they never fail to cheer me.

James Beard

#2. Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.

P.G. Wodehouse

#3. Her mother ... told Kate that after women got out of lousy marriages, they generally had the good sense to stay away from the institution altogether. While men just kept trying to get it right because they were incapable of being alone.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#4. There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#5. All good marriages are remarriages.

Carolyn G. Heilbrun

#6. Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.

Jeanne Phillips

#7. There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#9. If spouses did not live together, good marriages would be more frequent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. All that Swinging Sixties. It didn't do anyone any good, did it? Easy sex and the Pill. Marriages were ruined. I never did approve. I never really enjoyed the sex.

Christine Keeler

#11. Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.

Will Rogers

#12. Sadly, expectations did not make for good marriages.

Sarah MacLean

#13. Y'know, every relationship is different. There are good marriages, bad marriages, connected partners, unconnected partners.

Sandra Bullock

#14. There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#15. Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers with the collapse of the relationship of the couple who brings a child into the world.

William J Doherty

#16. I think mixed women from interracial marriages are beautiful, and for many reasons, all of them good.

Daniel Marques

#17. ...even good marriages sometimes involve flinging a remote control at the wall.

Ada Calhoun

#18. The idea that your spouse or your parents don't know where you are at all times may be part of the past. Is that good or bad? Will that make for better marriages or worse marriages? I don't know.

Howard Rheingold

#19. Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.

Robert Bolt

#20. I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.

Jenna Elfman

#21. Many marriages break up over hormonal imbalance, which is truly sad because it comes from a lack of understanding. When hormones are put back in balance with natural bioidentical hormones, a woman or man resumes their normal life of feeling good and having days filled with quality.

Suzanne Somers

#22. Not having insurance not only destroys your life, it destroys your fiscal life. It breaks up marriages. You cannot functions anywhere unless you have good health.

Charles B. Rangel

#23. As Jane stared at Vishous and felt his body against hers, she knew she was never letting him go. Ever. And she also knew that if they could make it through the past week, they had the staying power that good marriages - or matings - required.

J.R. Ward

#24. The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.

John Piper

#25. I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

Erica Jong

#26. There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#27. There must be good marriages somewhere, but to me, marriage had the feel of people tolerating each other, enduring each other because they were afraid to be alone or because each was a habit that the other couldn't quite break.

Octavia E. Butler

#28. Repeated studies have found that there is a very close correlation between good marriages and high subjective well-being, and between bad marriages and misery.

Yuval Noah Harari

#29. 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

#30. Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands.

Joyce Banda

#31. Even though my first marriage broke up, I'd say that I've had two good marriages and two good men. I've been very lucky. I like to think it's karma because, in a relationship, I give 300 per cent. I'm straight with my men, and I like to think it comes back.

Suzi Quatro

#32. The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.

Brene Brown

#33. My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters.

Charlene Tilton

#34. Marriages, both good and bad, were defined by repetition.

Nicholas Sparks

#35. Super-confident people with no problems and great marriages and great parenting are not good entertainment.

Matthew Weiner

#36. Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.

Will Rogers

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