Good Marriage Quotes

I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.

A good marriage is really good after serving together in Washington, D.C.

The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.

A person does not leave a good marriage for someone else.

I see a good marriage as being like two tall trees growing beside each other, each nourishing the grace of the other.

We had a shared experience. That makes a good marriage better. In many ways our marriage is great because she has made it great.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

A good marriage is good because one or both of them have learned to overlook the other's faults, to love the other as they are and to not attempt to change them or bring them to repentance.

People can't help the way they feel, only what they do about it. They can no longer not be attracted to someone other than their spouse than they can say they are not hungry or not thirsty or not frightened or embarrassed. It's when you act on that attraction when you know it would be bad for your marriage that is the problem. In a good marriage, the couple are each as committed to the marriage as they are to each other.

A good marriage is like Dr Who's Tardis: small and banal from the outside but spacious and interesting from within.

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.

Every married couple has disputes from time to time, and in every good marriage, an attempt is made to overcome the dispute.

There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.

It's not easy having a good marriage--but I don't want easy. Easy doesn't make you grow. Easy doesn't make you think. I thank God everyday that I am married to a man who makes me think. That's my definition of true love.

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

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.

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.

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

Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?

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.

I base my happiness on the relationships in my life. I would rather have the absolute worst acting career or, I don't know, whatever the worst job would be... picking up radioactive material? I would much rather have that and a good marriage than a horrible marriage and a brilliant career. That's just not a trade off I'd make.

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.

In a good marriage each is the others better half.

You're either selfish, or you're a servant...but fundamentally selfish people are terrible friends, terrible lovers, terrible spouses, terrible Christians, terrible parents. They leave a terrible legacy. Will you be selfish? Will you be a servant?...A good marriage is a servant and a servant.

Someday, one of your friends is gonna get divorced, it's gonna happen, and they're gonna tell you. Don't go, 'ohhhh I'm sorry.' That's a stupid thing to say. First of all you're making 'em feel bad for being really happy, which isn't fair. And second of all: divorce is always good news. I know that sounds weird, but it's true, because no good marriage has ever ended in divorce. It's really that simple.

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.

Y'know, every relationship is different. There are good marriages, bad marriages, connected partners, unconnected partners.

No one would wish a bad marriage on anyone. But where do we think good marriages come from? They don't spring full blown from the head of Zeus any more than does a good education...Why should a marriage require fewer tears and less toil and shabbier commitment than your job or your clothes or your car?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.