Marriage Life Quotes:

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Relationship, Marriage, Wedding, Marriage Advice, Marriage And Love Inspirational

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

- Joseph Barth

topic: Marriage, Growing Up, Lasts, Marriage And Love Inspirational, Marriage Life

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

- Pearl S. Buck

topic: Love, Change, Anniversary, Marriage And Love Inspirational, Marriage Life

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

- Joyce Brothers

topic: Love, Marriage, Spiritual, Marriage Jokes, Marriage Life

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

- Ruth Graham

source: Ruth Bell Graham, Gigi Tchividjian (2009). “A Quiet Knowing”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Love, Friendship, Family, Husband To Be, Husband Wife

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

- Rita Rudner

topic: Love, Funny, Marriage, Humorous Love, Humorous Valentine

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Love, Friendship, Marriage, Long Relationship, Marriage Advice

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

- Mignon McLaughlin

source: Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

topic: Love, Relationship, Anniversary, Husband Love, Husband To Be

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

- Ogden Nash

source: Ogden Nash, “A Word To Husbands”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Life, Marriage Advice, Marriage Advice For Newlyweds

I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to BE the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Knowing, Important, Way, Marriage And Love Inspirational, Marriage Life

The first duty of love is to listen.

- Paul Tillich

topic: Life, Marriage, Communication, Marriage Advice, Marriage And Love Inspirational

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.

- Mark Twain

topic: Love, Marriage, Wedding, Marriage Advice For Newlyweds, Marriage And Love Inspirational

The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.

- Frank Pittman

topic: Marriage, Secret, Good Marriage, Marriage And Love Inspirational, Marriage Anniversary

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

- Rita Rudner

source: Rita Rudner (2008). “I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething”, p.86, Crown Archetype

topic: Funny, Marriage, Pain, Marriage Advice, Marriage Advice For Newlyweds

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Husband To Be, Marriage Advice

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

source: Terre des Hommes ch. 8 (1939)

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Marriage And Love Inspirational, Soulmate Love

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

- Simone Signoret

topic: Love, Marriage, Women, Husband To Be, Marriage Advice

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

- Rainer Maria Rilke

topic: Inspirational, Anniversary, Marriage, Marriage Anniversary, Marriage Life

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

- Johnny Carson

topic: Funny, Life, Marriage, Marriage Life, Failed Marriage

Marriage, families, all relationships are more a process of learning the dance rather than finding the right dancer

- Paul Pearsall

source: Paul P. Pearsall, Paul Pearsall (1991). “The Power of the Family”, Bantam Books

topic: Marriage, Dancer, Process, Marriage Life, Positive Marriage

Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.

- Jefferson Machamer

topic: Marriage, Thinking, Lessons, Marriage Life, Marriage Love

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

- P. G. Wodehouse

topic: Marriage, Prolonging, Process, Marriage Life, Lovelessness

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Love, Anniversary, Inspiration, Marriage Life, Great Marriage

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Love, Marriage, Dance, Marriage Advice, Marriage Anniversary

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.

- Thornton Wilder

topic: Marriage, Growing Up, Children, Marriage Life, Married Couples

I've heard all the things - 'their marriage is not real,' 'he's gay,' 'she's gay,' 'they swing'. But at the end of the day, people have to believe what they have to believe. ... But I'll tell you what, it's too hard to be in a pretend marriage. Life's too short for that one.

- Jada Pinkett Smith

source: "Kate Gosselin defends spanking her kids" by Ree Hines, www.today.com. June 18, 2009.

topic: Real, Believe, Gay, Marriage Life, Bandwagon