Top 100 Quotes About 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. I had 53 years of happy marriage and two daughters. These were the best things that happened in my life.
Henry Allingham
#10. 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
#12. Creating a happy marriage begins with choosing the right spouse.
Fawn Weaver
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. In a happy marriage there is a continuous dense magnetic sense of communication.
Iris Murdoch
#17. happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers." ~ Ruth Bell Graham.
Lisa Jacobson
#18. 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
#19. A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#20. 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
#22. In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
Vendela Kirsebom
#23. I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?
Max Schmeling
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.
Nancy Etcoff
#30. 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
#31. What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo Tolstoy
#32. 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
#33. [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
#34. Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!
Robert A. Heinlein
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. If you have a boat and a happy marriage, you don't need another thing.
Ed McMahon
#40. 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
#41. A happy marriage- a love match- is something overwhelming, and overpowering.
Jude Morgan
#42. 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
#43. Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?
Michelle Pfeiffer
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.
David Byrne
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. A happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.
Ann Landers
#50. The best gift you can give to your kids is a happy marriage.
Ricky Shetty
#51. We will have a happy marriage if it kills him.
Gillian Flynn
#52. I yearned for a long, happy marriage with one person.
Ginger Rogers
#53. 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
#54. I've got a happy marriage, which is the most important singular thing.
Denis Healey
#55. A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.
Debra Winger
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. Variety is the spice of life, a truth which, of course, every happy marriage seems to contradict.
Theodor Fontane
#61. 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
#62. There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
Adam Phillips
#63. People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.'
Jane Asher
#64. A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
#66. 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
#67. The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other.
Ezra Taft Benson
#68. The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe.
Denzel Washington
#69. In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
Gerald Brenan
#70. 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
#71. You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.
Jeremy Sisto
#72. And I give you this picture because it fairly captures our nearly fifty-year happy marriage, during which I have offered up an astonishing number of foolish pronouncements with absolute assurance, and Ruth, with only limited rancor, has ignored almost every one. A
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#73. My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
Olivia Williams
#74. The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#75. Dear Jack,
I love you, too.
And I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage - just choose someone you can't live without.
For me, that would be you.
So if you insist on being traditional ...
Yes.
- Ella
Lisa Kleypas
#76. Why risk the rare happy marriage-rarer still, a love marriage that endures-for something as common and toxic as complete, unthinking, transparent honesty? Who would be helped by my telling? Me? not at all. I was made of steel, I promise you.
William Landay
#77. 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
#78. Sex appeal alone is the poorest basis in the world for a happy marriage.
John R. Rice
#79. 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
#80. A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers
Robert Quillen
#81. I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage - just choose someone you can't live without.
Lisa Kleypas
#82. The secret to a happy marriage is a sense of humor, because marriage throws you curveballs. It is not easy.
Ann Romney
#83. The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
Groucho Marx
#84. Ladies, if you want a happy marriage, then do whatever your husband tells you without questioning his authority.
Rush Limbaugh
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
Ann Landers
#88. A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre Maurois
#89. Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.
Melina Kanakaredes
#90. A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition, interrupted by difficulties and plain, boring routine.
Ursula Hegi
#92. No happy marriage was, in his estimation, ever based on thoughtless, automatic untruths and exclusions. And the best way to make someone unhappy, if not downright unbalanced, is to tell her that what she sees with her own eyes is not there at all.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do.
Maxine Kumin
