Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible."
Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
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.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
The man who puts into the marriage only half of what he owns will get that out.
Husbands make the best kinds of heroes. - Lisa JacobsonMarriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.
I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.
Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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.
There is such pleasure in long-term marriage that I really would hate to be my age and not have had a long-term marriage. Remember, sustaining a pleasurable, long-term marriage takes effort, deliberateness and an intention to learn about one another. In other words, marriage is for grown-ups.
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