Good Marriage Quotes - Page 2

• When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

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• A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Marriage, Funny Love, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.199, Harvard University Press

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• Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

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• Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it.

  Gene Perret

  Marriage, Funny Love, Wine

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• A good marriage is at least 80% good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

  Nanette Newman

  Trust, Marriage, Best Love

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• Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

  Beverley Nichols

  Funny, Anniversary, Romantic

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• I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

  Graeme Simsion

  Love, Cute, Romantic

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Funny, Relationship

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

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• To me, the difference between a good marriage and a great marriage is conviction.

  Diane Greene

  Differences, Great Marriage, Conviction

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• Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Birthday, Marriage

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.53, Lulu.com

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• The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.

  H. L. Mencken

  Marriage, Jealousy, Husband

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• All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

  Red Skelton

  Inspirational, Marriage, Mistake

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Marriage, Two

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• A heart isn't something you get. It's something that's born.

  Yukiru Sugisaki

  Marriage, Heart, Nouns

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• The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Best Friend, Marriage

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.150, Cambridge University Press

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Important, Literature, Remember

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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• The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.

  Sacha Guitry

  Secret, Forgiving, Firsts

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• To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart - about a finger's breadth - for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule.

  Marnie Reed Crowell

  Love, Marriage, Fire

  Marnie Reed Crowell (1973). “Greener pastures”

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• a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Anniversary, Marriage

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.34, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

  Mark Twain

  Anniversary, Marriage, Wedding

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.248, Courier Corporation

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  A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

  Ruth Graham

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  Ruth Bell Graham, Gigi Tchividjian (2009). “A Quiet Knowing”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Change, Anniversary

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• The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.

  Cher

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Valentines Day

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• It's true what they say - all the good men are married. But it's marriage that makes them good.

  Gay Talese

  Marriage, Men, Good Man

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