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There is such pleasure in long-term marriage that I really would hate to be my age and not have had a long-term marriage. Remember, sustaining a pleasurable, long-term marriage takes effort, deliberateness and an intention to learn about one another. In other words, marriage is for grown-ups.
Sep 10, 2025
The man who puts into the marriage only half of what he owns will get that out.
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.
Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.
People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
Husbands make the best kinds of heroes. - Lisa JacobsonMarriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.
I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to BE the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person.
It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.
Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible."
As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
The first duty of love is to listen.
I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.
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