Successful Marriage Quotes - Page 2

• You can't handle the truth!

  Jack Nicholson

  Movie, Memorable, Great Year

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• Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden.

  Homer

  Weed, Garden, Process

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• Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage.

  Richard G. Scott

  Successful, Love Is, Foundation

  "The Eternal Blessings of Marriage". Richard G. Scott's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2011.

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• the most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves.

  P. D. James

  Successful, Feelings, Done

  P. D. James (2008). “The Lighthouse”, p.30, Faber & Faber

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• A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement.

  Ann Landers

  Successful, Achievement

  Ann Landers (1982). “Ann Landers says: truth is stranger ...”, Prentice Hall

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• I don't think having separate bathrooms is a key to a successful marriage, if you love one another.

  Ewan McGregor

  Successful, Thinking, Keys

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• Making love to your wife is like shooting at sitting ducks.

  Groucho Marx

  Love, Successful, Ducks

  Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.211, Da Capo Press

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• Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage if both are willing to pay the price.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Marriage, Beautiful, Successful

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• Magazines and talk shows are filled with people who say that a successful #‎ marriage is hard and requires a lot of work. But to #‎ soulmates , their harmony often feels effortless, as though it is the most natural thing in the world to be completely at ease in a #‎ relationship .

  Rosemary Ellen Guiley

  Soulmate, Successful, People

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• I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages.

  Bobby Heenan

  Cheating, Successful, Wwe

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• A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.

  Ellen Barkin

  Successful, Lasts

  Parade Magazine, May 13, 2007.

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• For the sake of your marriage, get a king-size bed. And if you really want to stay married, get two.

  Ray Romano

  Funny, Marriage, Kings

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”

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• It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him.

  Helen Rowland

  Home, Successful, Men

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Marriage, Successful, Way

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• I’m doing pretty well. If you don’t get married, you can’t get divorced. Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?

  Adam Levine

  Successful, Lasts, Generations

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• The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Romantic, Gay, Successful

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• A good friend just told me that the key to a successful marriage was to argue naked! I'm gonna do that from now on, when that rarely happens.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Marriage, Successful, Good Friend

  Twitter post from Mar 28, 2011

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• I think you learn more about Donald Trump when you learn more about his wife Melania. She can say things, but it's more how much did you get to know her and believe the kind of person she is, that could be married successfully to him. So once you realize that there's something there, that there's substance and that she's got talents and abilities, you think "this is a very complex woman and not just a pretty face" and you know they have a pretty successful marriage and I think that speaks well of him.

  Rick Santorum

  Believe, Successful, Thinking

  Source: nymag.com

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• The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.

  Colin Chapman

  Marriage, Funny Love, Home

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• To have a successful marriage, a man must, on a fundamental level be scared shitless of his wife.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Successful, Men, Wife

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• The key to a successful marriage is accepting that you're not going to change the other person. And the words "Yes, dear. Whatever you want.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Successful, Keys, Want

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• Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge in idle tranquility with the remark: "The game is won; let's relax." The game is never won. The chances of life are such that anything is possible. Remember what the dangers are for both sexes in middle age. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

  Andre Maurois

  Marriage, Sex, Couple

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Girl, Successful, Thinking

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.53, Da Capo Press

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• With me, nothing goes right. My psychiatrist said my wife and I should have sex every night. Now, we'll never see each other!

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Marriage, Sex, Humorous

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.81, Zondervan

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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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