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A successful marriage is made up of two good forgivers.
Sep 10, 2025
If you want a successful marriage, let your husband do what he wants to do.
A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.
She shrugged another plump shoulder. “I never listened to Porter when he got going.” Ah. At last. The secret to a successful marriage.
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
At the top of the list of what makes a successful marriage, is a sense of humor.
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.
It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him.
There are many choices out there for young women. And you have to ask yourself whether you want to model your life on the women who let life pass them by and who spend their lives thinking they were victims and that men are the enemy. Or do you want to have a happy life with a successful marriage and 14 lovely grandchildren. The choices are out there.
A successful marriage is a decision. You decide whether it's going to work, and then you turn around and you've been married 45 years.
The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.
The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.
To have a successful marriage, a man must, on a fundamental level be scared shitless of his wife.
Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.
I always felt as though, 'If nothing else, I have a successful marriage.'
With me, nothing goes right. My psychiatrist said my wife and I should have sex every night. Now, we'll never see each other!
Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.
Magazines and talk shows are filled with people who say that a successful # marriage is hard and requires a lot of work. But to # soulmates , their harmony often feels effortless, as though it is the most natural thing in the world to be completely at ease in a # relationship .
Making love to your wife is like shooting at sitting ducks.
I’m doing pretty well. If you don’t get married, you can’t get divorced. Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden.
Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage if both are willing to pay the price.
I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages.
I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.
Successful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, non-programmed. It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along. As a drop of oil on the sea, you must float, using intellect and compassion to ride the waves.
I think you learn more about Donald Trump when you learn more about his wife Melania. She can say things, but it's more how much did you get to know her and believe the kind of person she is, that could be married successfully to him. So once you realize that there's something there, that there's substance and that she's got talents and abilities, you think "this is a very complex woman and not just a pretty face" and you know they have a pretty successful marriage and I think that speaks well of him.
Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to just be people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old-time rail journey—delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.
A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn't believe how cheaply I can do a kitchen renovation.
For the sake of your marriage, get a king-size bed. And if you really want to stay married, get two.
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
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.
A good friend just told me that the key to a successful marriage was to argue naked! I'm gonna do that from now on, when that rarely happens.
Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge in idle tranquility with the remark: "The game is won; let's relax." The game is never won. The chances of life are such that anything is possible. Remember what the dangers are for both sexes in middle age. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
May you always be each other's best friend, May your mutual love continue to be so May your successful marriage continue to thrive May love flourish, prosper, bloom and grow
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement.
The key to a successful marriage is accepting that you're not going to change the other person. And the words "Yes, dear. Whatever you want.
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
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.
You can't handle the truth!