Happy Marriage Quotes - Page 6

• Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Funny, Life, Marriage

  The Adventures of Sally (1920) ch. 10

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• I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.

  Amanda Holden

  Girl, Home, Night

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• Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.

  Melina Kanakaredes

  Kids, Careers, Achievement

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• Divorce Myths: 1. When love has gone out of a marriage, it is better to get divorced. 2. It is better for the children for the unhappy couple to divorce than to raise their children in the atmosphere of an unhappy marriage. 3. Divorce is the lesser of two evils. 4. You owe it to yourself. 5. Everyone's entitled to one mistake. 6. God led me to this divorce.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Children, Couple

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• Married women are far more depressed than married men - in unhappy marriages, three times more; and - interestingly - in happy marriages, five times more. In truth, it is men who are thriving in marriage, now as always, and who show symptoms of psychological and physical distress outside it. Not only their emotional well-being but their very lives, some studies say, depend on being married!

  Dalma Heyn

  Marriage, Men, Emotional

  Dalma Heyn (2011). “Marriage Shock: The Transformation of Women into Wives”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other. The goal of marriage is unity and oneness, as well as self-development. Paradoxically, the more we serve one another, the greater is our spiritual and emotional growth.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spiritual, Emotional, Self

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Strong, Unhappy, Woven

  "War Within and Without". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1980.

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• I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.

  Beatrix Potter

  Crowns, Old Fashioned, Notion

  Beatrix Potter (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Beatrix Potter (Illustrated)”, p.1214, Delphi Classics

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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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• I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fighting, Men, Incompatibility

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfaction in life is difficult. Maybe being happy is as simple as not being unhappy.

  Jasper Carrott

  Simple, Satisfaction In Life, Feet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

  Anthony Storr

  Marriage, Expression, Giving

  Anthony Storr (1961). “The Integrity of the Personality”

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• I am changing the notion that actresses can’t have happy marriages

  Mercy Johnson

  Actresses, Notion

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• Ladies, if you want a happy marriage, then do whatever your husband tells you without questioning his authority.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Husband, Want, Authority

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• The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.

  Rebecca West

  Children, Divorce, Men

  Rebecca West, Jane Marcus (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, New York : Viking Press

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• In a happy marriage there is a continuous dense magnetic sense of communication.

  Iris Murdoch

  Communication, Dense, Magnetic

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “A Fairly Honourable Defeat”, p.223, Penguin

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• Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.

  Anne Roiphe

  Thinking, People, Unhappy

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• So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.

  Lillian Russell

  Marriage, Unhappy, Firsts

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• Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Marriage, Unhappy, Levels

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