Top 41 Quotes About Happy Marriages
#1. 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
#2. I am changing the notion that actresses can't have happy marriages
Mercy Johnson
#4. The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.
Leo Tolstoy
#5. When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred ... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages.
Paul Engle
#6. Common courtesy plays a big role in happy marriages. People who are permanently married are polite to one another. They don't want to hurt one another's feelings, and they don't try to make the other one feel humiliated. People who are married for life are extremely kind to one another.
Frank Pittman
#7. Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#8. People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
Iris Murdoch
#9. Women have become so highly educated ... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.
Oscar Wilde
#10. I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.
Vince Cable
#11. Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.
Tom Mullen
#12. If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. Happy marriages are alive and well. The cries of their demise have been highly overrated, and couples happily married do indeed exist.
Fawn Weaver
#15. The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
Jonathan Swift
#16. It is the first shower that wets."
"Marriage is like picking the place where you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blind fold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart."
"Our marriage, like all marriages, was happy until it wasn't
Tom McNeal
#17. I think happy, companionate marriages between men and women who respect each other (as far as is consistent with being actual human beings) should be every bit as poetry-worthy as angst, bitterness, and shame.
Delia Sherman
#18. I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with.
Mark Ruffalo
#19. Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#20. I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know anybody who's married for a long time who hasn't somehow made room in their love story for the hate and resentment that they sometimes feel toward each other.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#21. I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the lord chancellor, upon a due consideration of the characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter.
Samuel Johnson
#22. They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a kid who's getting beaten up in school is promoting homosexuality. If you gave me a million dollars, I wouldn't know how to promote homosexuality.
Barney Frank
#23. 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
#24. Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
Phyllis McGinley
#25. The best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There was even a kind of necessary tension, a certain tautness between the partners that gave the marriage strength, like the tautness of a full sail. You went forward on it.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#26. All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
Raymond Hull
#27. All marriages are happy, it's living together afterward that's tough.
Ann Landers
#28. All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard work of making their marriages happy."
Linda Miles
#29. I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there's nothing wrong with it.
Tia Mowry
#30. Well, I mean, if someone is going to kill my husband, I think it should be me. Don't you agree?"
I do indeed," Emmie said. "I made the same argument myself just a week ago.
Robert Bruce Stewart
#31. In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.
Shelley Winters
#32. I also liked to look around at the houses surrounding the park and wonder about the people who filled them, what kinds of marriages they had and how they loved or hurt each other on any given day, and if they were happy, and whether they thought happiness was a sustainable thing.
Paula McLain
#33. All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.
Shelley Winters
#34. The children of violently unhappy marriages, like my mother, are often hamstrung for life, but the children of happier marriages have problems too - all the worse, perhaps, because they don't have virtue on their side.
Lorna Sage
#35. 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
#36. There are comparatively few articles about whether men are happy or why their marriages also fail or how nice or not their bodies are, even the movie-star bodies.
Rebecca Solnit
#37. I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.
Paulo Coelho
#38. Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.
Benjamin Disraeli
#39. People come to films drowned in reality, leaving behind heart failures, cancer, failed marriages, bad jobs, mean bosses, and future sickness. What they need is not happy endings, but proper endings.
Ray Bradbury
#40. I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.
Kajol
#41. 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
