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• Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Anniversary, Marriage

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• Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

  Barbra Streisand

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

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• Every good marriage must be a friendship between two people who are willing to sacrifice for the other person.

  Jim George

  Sacrifice, Two, People

  Jim George (2016). “A Husband After God's Own Heart: 12 Things That Really Matter in Your Marriage”, p.71, Harvest House Publishers

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• The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.

  Anita Ekberg

  Important, Arguing, Important Things

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• People are often enamored with my Super Bowl ring. But it's my wedding ring that I'm most proud of. And having a good marriage takes even more work than winning a Super Bowl.

  Trent Dilfer

  Marriage, Winning, People

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• I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.

  Meryl Streep

  Marriage, Garden, Partners

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• Remember, a good marriage is like a campfire. Both grow cold if left unattended.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Best Love, Cold, Remember

  H. Jackson Brown Jr., Rochelle Pennington (2001). “Highlighted in Yellow: A Short Course In Living Wisely And Choosing Well”, p.190, Harper Collins

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• A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Family, Marriage, Couple

  "Divorce". Dallin H. Oaks' address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2007.

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• A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Trust, Marriage, Sweet

  Michel de Montaigne (1980). “Essays”

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• A good marriage isn't something you find; it's something you make.

  Gary L. Thomas

  "A Lifelong Love: How to Have Lasting Intimacy, Friendship, and Purpose in Your Marriage". Book by Gary L. Thomas, 2014.

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• A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Witty, Couple, Moving

  Kristin James, Mary Jo Putney, Julie Tetel (1994). “Promised Brides”

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• I wasn’t sure anymore what made a good marriage. There had to be love, of course, but there were so many different kinds of love. And clearly, some love was more enduring than others.

  Janet Evanovich

  Love, Age, Different

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Between the Plums: Visions of Sugar Plums, Plum Lovin', and Plum lucky”, p.65, Macmillan

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• A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.

  Willard Scott

  Inspirational, Retirement, Productive Life

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• The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Marriage, Player, Law

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• A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables."

  James Dobson

  Perspective, Perfection, Healthy

  Dr. James Dobson (2012). “Love for a Lifetime: Building a Marriage That Will Go the Distance”, p.67, Multnomah

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• 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

  Marriage, People, Trying

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• It's the strings vibrating at the same time but separately that makes a good marriage. It messy, it's complicated and it's quite wonderful.

  Hector Elizondo

  Wonderful, Complicated, Strings

  "Valentine's Day - Hector Elizondo interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse.

  Olivia Wilde

  Inspired, Partnership, Mark

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Most inexperienced cooks believe, mistakenly, that a fine cake is less challenging to produce than a fine souffle or mousse. I know, however, that a good cake is like a good marriage: from the outside, it looks ordinary, sometimes unremarkable, yet cut into it, taste it, and you know that it is nothing of the sort. It is the sublime result oflong and patient experience, a confection whose success relies on a profound understanding of compatibilities and tastes; on a respect for measurement, balance, chemistry and heat; on a history of countless errors overcome.

  Julia Glass

  Believe, Cutting, Errors

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• A good marriage is worth fighting for.

  Lisa Jacobson

  Love, Marriage, Fighting

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• The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time!

  Heinz Kohut

  Crazy, Mark

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• The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Solitude, Wedding Day, Boundaries

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• 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

  Past, People, Disability

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• The spiritual journey is one that we must take "alone together," in the same way that a good marriage involves a dance between solitude and communion. The life of the spirit entails a continuous alternation between retreating into oneself and going out into the world: it's an inward-outward journey. There is a solitary part to it, but that solitude helps us to develop richer and more in-depth relationships with our friends, our children, our community, and the political world.

  Sam Keen

  Spiritual, Children, Journey

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• The secret to a good marriage, as far as I am concerned, is a joke I make: Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.

  Michael J. Fox

  Sex, Dirty, Fighting

  Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.

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