Encouraging Marriage Quotes

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

Billy Sunday

Marriage, Wife, Trying

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

Leo Tolstoy

Relationship, Marriage, Wedding

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

Zig Ziglar

Inspirational, Funny, Life

FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jun 28, 2013

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The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Tillich

Love, Life, Marriage

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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

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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Theodore Hesburgh

Love, Inspirational, Funny

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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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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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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 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

Anniversary, Marriage, Wedding

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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

A. A. Milne

Love, Friendship, Birthday

"Winnie-the-Pooh: The House at Pooh Corner". Book by A. A. Milne, 1928.

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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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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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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

Thomas A. Edison

Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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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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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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