Happy Marriage Quotes - Page 5

• I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

  Rebecca West

  Divorce, Unhappy, Goes On

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• The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages.

  Hermann Graf Keyserling

  Men, Unhappy, Majority

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• He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Husband, Wife, Understanding

  Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton (1711). “Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,”, p.117

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• Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

  Mark Twain

  Anniversary, Marriage, Wedding

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.248, Courier Corporation

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• The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

  Anne Tyler

  Character, Reflection, Opportunity

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• I yearned for a long, happy marriage with one person.

  Ginger Rogers

  Long, Persons

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• My characters always start well in movies. Almost every movie I've done starts with a happy marriage, it's all beautiful, wealthy, whatever... and then of course my husband leaves me, and everything falls apart.

  Carole Bouquet

  Beautiful, Husband, Fall

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• I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?

  Max Schmeling

  Marriage, Nice, Wife

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• There is much made in the psychological literature of the effects of divorce on children, particularly as it comes to their own marriages, lo those many years later. We have always wondered why there is not more research done on the children of happy marriages. Our parents' love is not some grand passion, there are no swoons of lust, no ball gowns and tuxedos, but here is the truth: they have not spent a night apart since the day they married.How can we ever hope to find a love to live up to that?

  Eleanor Brown

  Love, Children, Passion

  Eleanor Brown (2011). “The Weird Sisters”, p.111, Penguin

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• People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.

  Jane Asher

  People, Secret, Asks

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• The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth. Happiness does not begin at the altar; it begins during the period of youth and courtship.

  David O. McKay

  Marriage, Doe, Youth

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• ...The only slogan we need in order to be happy in our home is: Love Each Other -three simple words. Apply the ingredients of love. Sacrifice for each other. Make each other happy.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Marriage, Home, Sacrifice

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• Mutual respect, the soft answer, financial honesty with the Lord, prayer. "I do not hesitate to promise that if you will go to your homes and cultivate and nurture it among these four cornerstones, your lives will be happy."

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Marriage, Prayer, Honesty

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• 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

  Love, Marriage, Dance

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Anniversary, Book

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• A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Anniversary, Marriage, Wedding

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 20, 1595.

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Motivational, Friendship

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• Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Believe, Choices, Secret

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It should be a very happy marriage - they are both so much in love with him.

  Irene Thomas

  Love, Should, Very Happy

  Irene Thomas (1979). “The Bandsman's Daughter: An Autobiography”

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• If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do.

  Paul Bloom

  Motivation, Husband, Inspiration

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• I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single

  Paula Danziger

  Unhappy, Married, Deals

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• Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Love, Jobs, Age

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• If you have a boat and a happy marriage, you don't need another thing.

  Ed McMahon

  Inspirational, Needs, Boat

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• When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails I let it go off the rails.

  Stuart Rose

  Kids, Happy Kid, Let It Go

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• Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Kids, Happy Life, Cheerful

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