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If you want true love and a long-lasting marriage, you need to start by figuring out what makes you happy.
Sep 10, 2025
A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.
Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.
Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.
One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships.
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."
Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you.
All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard work of making their marriages happy."
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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.
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.
Love the family! Defend and promote it as the basic cell of human society; nurture it as the prime sanctuary of life. Give great care to the preparation of engaged couples and be close to young married couples, so that they will be for their children and the whole community an eloquent testimony of God's love.
The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers with the collapse of the relationship of the couple who brings a child into the world.
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
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."
Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
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.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
The United States Administration for Children and Families (ACF) spends $46 billion per year operating 65 different social programs. If one goes down the list of these programs… the need for each is either created or exacerbated by the breakup of families and marriages.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
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.
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths
Let there be spaces in your togetherness
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
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.
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.