Happy Marriage Quotes - Page 6

• My parents deeply and truly loved each other, and if my mother hadn't died they would have been together forever. They were together for as much of forever as was given to them. They really loved my brother and me and were very good to us. It gave the model of how to have a happy marriage and family, but it also set the bar very high.

  Andrew Solomon

  Mother, Brother, Parent

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• 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

  Giving, Movement, Would Be

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• Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

  George Will

  Marriage, Funny Love, Definitions

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• Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Luxury, Ingredients, Firsts

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• It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

  David Byrne

  Wedding, Quick Fixes, Wanted

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• But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

  Lord Byron

  Marriage, Knowing, Unhappy

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.333, Routledge

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• 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

  Suicide, Tragedy, Battle

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• There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage

  Adam Phillips

  Possibility, Scandalous

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• Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Family, Marriage, Funny Love

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1738

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• But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Marriage, Dance

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• 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

  Strong, Unhappy, Woven

  "War Within and Without". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1980.

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• Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

  Khalil Gibran

  Marriage, Wedding, Endless Sea

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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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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• 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

  Marriage, Unhappy, Levels

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• The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other. The goal of marriage is unity and oneness, as well as self-development. Paradoxically, the more we serve one another, the greater is our spiritual and emotional growth.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spiritual, Emotional, Self

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.

  Melina Kanakaredes

  Kids, Careers, Achievement

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• If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.

  Richard Bach

  Funny, Husband, Adventure

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• Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Funny, Life, Marriage

  The Adventures of Sally (1920) ch. 10

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• I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single

  Paula Danziger

  Unhappy, Married, Deals

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• If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do.

  Paul Bloom

  Motivation, Husband, Inspiration

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• 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

  Girl, Home, Night

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• It should be a very happy marriage - they are both so much in love with him.

  Irene Thomas

  Love, Should, Very Happy

  Irene Thomas (1979). “The Bandsman's Daughter: An Autobiography”

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• Divorce Myths: 1. When love has gone out of a marriage, it is better to get divorced. 2. It is better for the children for the unhappy couple to divorce than to raise their children in the atmosphere of an unhappy marriage. 3. Divorce is the lesser of two evils. 4. You owe it to yourself. 5. Everyone's entitled to one mistake. 6. God led me to this divorce.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Children, Couple

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• I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.

  Beatrix Potter

  Crowns, Old Fashioned, Notion

  Beatrix Potter (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Beatrix Potter (Illustrated)”, p.1214, Delphi Classics

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• Married women are far more depressed than married men - in unhappy marriages, three times more; and - interestingly - in happy marriages, five times more. In truth, it is men who are thriving in marriage, now as always, and who show symptoms of psychological and physical distress outside it. Not only their emotional well-being but their very lives, some studies say, depend on being married!

  Dalma Heyn

  Marriage, Men, Emotional

  Dalma Heyn (2011). “Marriage Shock: The Transformation of Women into Wives”, p.10, Open Road Media

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