Good Marriage Quotes

• What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Relationship, Marriage, Wedding

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• A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.

  Anne Lamott

  Love, Marriage, People

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• Good marriages are built upon a combination of emotional love and a common commitment to a core of beliefs about what is important in life and what we wish to do with our lives. Speaking each other's primary love language creates the emotional climate where these beliefs can be fleshed out in daily life.

  Gary Chapman

  Commitment, Emotional, Wish

  Gary D Chapman (2009). “The Five Love Languages Singles Edition”, p.159, Moody Publishers

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• A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

  Andre Maurois

  Love, Happiness, Anniversary

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  A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

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• Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Love, Marriage, Verbs

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• When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

  Nora Ephron

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Nora Ephron (2011). “When Harry Met Sally. . .”, p.97, Knopf

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• My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Life, Anniversary

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• The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must
  be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.

  Frank Pittman

  Anniversary, Marriage, Wedding

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• A good marriage is a contest of generosity.

  Diane Sawyer

  Marriage, Generosity, Contests

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• Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

  Eddie Cantor

  Inspirational, Marriage, Wedding

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• Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.

  Charles Dickens

  Romantic, Marriage, Wedding

  Charles Dickens (1854). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ... With a Frontispiece from a Painting by T. Webster”, p.490

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• To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

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• If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Marriage, Ifs

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• A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Anniversary, Marriage, Wedding

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 20, 1595.

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• Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Marriage, Sorry

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• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Motivational, Friendship

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• Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…”, p.8291, e-artnow

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  There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  "Table Talk" by Martin Luther, (p. 292), 1569.

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• A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  In Newsweek 28 Mar. 1960, p. 89

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• I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

  Rita Rudner

  Love, Funny, Life

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• A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world.

  Robert Breault

  Marriage, Two, World

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• It's nice to be able to work; I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it.

  Joan Cusack

  Nice, Tv Shows, Parent

  "RT Interview: Joan Cusack on War, Inc., the Unofficial Sequel to Grosse Point Blank". Interview with Jen Yamato, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. May 22, 2008.

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• A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

  Debra Winger

  Different, Happy Marriage

  Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2008.

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• Where there is love there is life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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