Encouraging Marriage Quotes

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

Oscar Wilde

Friendship, Relationship, Marriage

Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.13, Wordsworth Editions

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People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

Paul Newman

Marriage, Doors, People

"Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures". Book edited by Yann-Brice Dherbier and Pierre-Henri Verlhac, October 19, 2006.

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A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Ruth Graham

Love, Friendship, Relationship

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

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Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.

Frank Pittman

Marriage, Safe, Way

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Billy Sunday

Marriage, Wife, Trying

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When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same
person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible."

Billy Graham

Marriage, Love Is, Years

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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.

Michele Weiner-Davis

Relationship, Marriage, Real

Michele Weiner Davis (2002). “The Divorce Remedy: The Proven 7-Step Program for Saving Your Marriage”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Martin Luther

Love, Friendship, Relationship

"Table Talk" by Martin Luther, (p. 292), 1569.

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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

Knowing, Important, Love And Marriage

Zig Ziglar (2004). “Courtship After Marriage: Romance Can Last a Lifetime”, p.11, Thomas Nelson

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Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Henry Ford

Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Joseph Barth

Marriage, Best Love, Growing Up

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As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever
decide to leave, she is coming with me."

Jon Bon Jovi

Marriage, Wife, Secret

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas A. Edison

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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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.

Ronald Reagan

Love, Marriage, Wedding

Kiron K. Skinner, Ronald Reagan, Annelise Anderson, Martin Anderson (2004). “Reagan: A Life In Letters”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Love, Relationship, Anniversary

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

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The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

Mignon McLaughlin

Love, Life, Marriage

"The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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

Ogden Nash

Inspirational, Life, Marriage

Ogden Nash, “A Word To Husbands”

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

Thomas A. Edison

Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Marriage, Husband, Wife

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The man who puts into the marriage only half
of what he owns will get that out.

Ronald Reagan

Love, Marriage, Men

Kiron K. Skinner, Ronald Reagan, Annelise Anderson, Martin Anderson (2004). “Reagan: A Life In Letters”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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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.

Jennifer E. Smith

Marriage, Wedding, Husband

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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.

Stephen Covey

Marriage, Would Be, Neglect

Stephen R. Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families”, p.2, St. Martin's Press

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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.

Pat Conroy

Marriage, Divorce, Civilization

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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

Marriage, Children, Growing Up

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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.

Cokie Roberts

Marriage, Hate, Long

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