Capability Quote by John Stuart Mill

A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition,…

— Ursula Hegi

I have known a few good marriages, but very few. And others look to me like they're pretty miserable. I don't really think that's…

— Hugh Grant

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry,…

— Nancy Mitford

“Marriage is particularly important. Repeated studies have found that there is a very close correlation between good marriages and high subjective well-being, and between…

— Yuval Noah Harari

A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

— Bertrand Russell

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or…

— Jane Austen

I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.

— Mary McCormack

“an avalanche of research shows that happy marriages can boost your health and wellbeing. People in positive long-term relationships have lower rates of heart…

— Jancee Dunn

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

— Benjamin Franklin

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

— Joseph Addison

The wonder is not that some married people are less happy than they hoped to be, but that any married people, out of the…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity; and cannot…

— Samuel Johnson