Dividing Quote by Samuel Richardson

A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason and indeed all the sweets of…

— Anonymous

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet,…

— Joseph Addison

A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of a friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and indeed, all the sweets…

— Anonymous

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where…

— Joseph Addison

Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly.

— Imogen Stubbs

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there…

— Marilyn Monroe

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends

— Anonymous

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 isn't meant to make you happy - it's there because it gives you a life in which you can find happiness.

— Esther Perel

Marriage is actually one of the things that keeps you happy.

— Robert J. Waldinger

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other,…

— Anthony Storr

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

— Michel de Montaigne