It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“When you give a happy couple the opportunity to talk about what makes marriage great, it's like a water spigot you can't… — Fawn Weaver Copy Share Image
That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do. — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What makes people laugh? . . . It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies. — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
“Mercifully, I was at that age when reading was still a passion and thus, save for a happy marriage, the best state… — William Styron Copy Share Image
A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The key to a happy marriage is myself being absent for long periods of time. My wife Leesa and I will celebrate… — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
“Dear Jack, I love you, too. And I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage— just choose someone… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive… — GK Chesterton Copy Share Image
I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“...[A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which one human being can offer to another… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
I never grew up dreaming about a wedding - I don't think about things like that. I don't know how to explain… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“A happy marriage- a love match- is something overwhelming, and overpowering.” — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason and indeed all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
In a happy marriage there is a continuous dense magnetic sense of communication. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it. — Jane Asher Copy Share Image
So it would be a happy marriage between the movement and the vocal and uh, this is the thing that you give… — Cholly Atkins Copy Share Image
Seek a happy marriage with wholeness of heart, but do not expect to reach the Promised Land without going through some wilderness… — Charlie W Shedd Copy Share Image
Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one… — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Copy Share Image
To be entirely happy in marriage, the same thing must be important to both. — Marie of Romania Copy Share Image
When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. — Jefferson Machamer Copy Share Image
I had 53 years of happy marriage and two daughters. These were the best things that happened in my life. — Henry Allingham Copy Share Image
A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs. — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune. — Eden Phillpotts Copy Share Image
“If you can figure out how to choose happiness in your marriage daily, and stop sweating the small stuff, it'll take ten… — Fawn Weaver Copy Share Image
The most happy marriage I can picture would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. — Coleridge Copy Share Image
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