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The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. -- Henny Youngman
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. -- Andre Maurois
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. -- Gerald Brenan
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. -- Ann Landers
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. -- Clint Eastwood
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time. -- Julia Child
The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about. -- Bruce Forsyth
7 Principles of a Happy MarriageAlways listenBe thereCompromise is necessaryBuild up trustA kiss before sleep, a kiss after wakingNever keep scoreDo things together -- Steven Aitchison
A happy marriage is the world's best bargain. -- Orlando Aloysius Battista
If the marriage ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. -- Scott Gardner
A good marriage is different to a happy marriage. -- Debra Winger
A happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset. -- Ann Landers
I yearned for a long, happy marriage with one person. -- Ginger Rogers
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. -- Ruth Graham
I've got a happy marriage, which is the most important singular thing. -- Denis Healey
The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other. -- Ezra Taft Benson
You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage. -- Jeremy Sisto
It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix. -- David Byrne
Sex appeal alone is the poorest basis in the world for a happy marriage. -- John R. Rice
Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids. -- Melina Kanakaredes
The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe. -- Denzel Washington
My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one. -- Olivia Williams
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx
I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want? -- Max Schmeling
I had 53 years of happy marriage and two daughters. These were the best things that happened in my life. -- Henry Allingham
That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do. -- Maxine Kumin
People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.' -- Jane Asher
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. -- Leo Tolstoy
Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right? -- Michelle Pfeiffer
There are four pillars to a happy marriage: respect one another as individuals; (give) soft answers; (practice)financial honesty; (conduct) family prayer. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage. -- Elizabeth Aston
All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard work of making their marriages happy." -- Linda Miles
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
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
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
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
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
I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - my male friends in particular. And I started wondering if my wife, who was certainly my best friend, supplanted those relationships. -- Matthew Weiner
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
Common courtesy plays a big role in happy marriages. People who are permanently married are polite to one another. They don't want to hurt one another's feelings, and they don't try to make the other one feel humiliated. People who are married for life are extremely kind to one another. -- Frank Pittman
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
I want a happy marriage and whatever it takes to achieve that. But I think the main prerequisite would have to be respect. He would have to respect me and vice-versa. And, that would be more important than being in love. I think respect really goes a long way. And he would have to keep me happy. And he'd have to be very, very, secure. -- Shilpa Shetty
We will have a happy marriage if it kills him. -- Gillian Flynn
Creating a happy marriage begins with choosing the right spouse. -- Fawn Weaver
Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first! -- Robert A. Heinlein
A happy marriage- a love match- is something overwhelming, and overpowering. -- Jude Morgan
I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage. -- Vidya Balan
Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home. -- Timbaland
In a happy marriage there is a continuous dense magnetic sense of communication. -- Iris Murdoch
If you want a happy Christ-centered marriage, you must be centered in Christ! -- Ngina Otiende
A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune. -- Eden Phillpotts
In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage. -- Vendela Kirsebom
The best gift you can give to your kids is a happy marriage. -- Ricky Shetty
Marriage is just a piece of paper if it's not a happy one. -- Phil Lester
Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress. -- John Legend
Just because a marriage ended didn't mean that it hadn't been happy at times. -- Liane Moriarty
Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy - it's supposed to make you married. -- Frank Pittman
If you have a boat and a happy marriage, you don't need another thing. -- Ed McMahon
To be entirely happy in marriage, the same thing must be important to both. -- Marie of Romania
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The ultimate purpose of marriage is not to make us happy but to glorify God. -- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
God is more interested in restoring our hearts to Him, than giving us a happy marriage. -- Ngina Otiende
In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage. -- John Milton
The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative. -- Nancy Etcoff
There was no such thing as a marriage with one happy spouse. Both must be or neither. -- Sherry Thomas
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Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending. -- Federico Fellini
A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness. -- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
It should be a very happy marriage - they are both so much in love with him. -- Irene Thomas
Recipe for a happy marriage: My wife and I always hold hands. If I let go, she shops. -- Red Skelton
But love does not mean marriage, a baby, forever. Love means you make me happy until you don't. -- A. Igoni Barrett
What if marriage is really about making us more like Christ, not so much about making us happy? -- Kirk Cameron
Ladies, if you want a happy marriage, then do whatever your husband tells you without questioning his authority. -- Rush Limbaugh
Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force. -- Ogden Nash
People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it. -- Jane Asher
The secret to a happy marriage is a sense of humor, because marriage throws you curveballs. It is not easy. -- Ann Romney
... I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage - just choose someone you can't live without. -- Lisa Kleypas
If you want true love and a long-lasting marriage, you need to start by figuring out what makes you happy. -- Amy Webb
A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it. -- Bertrand Russell
My parents have been married for 42 years. Their marriage has been - from what I can see - a happy one. -- Roxane Gay
There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage -- Adam Phillips
There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage. -- Cindy Gallop
... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself. -- Leo Tolstoy
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
What makes people laugh? . . . It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give. -- Erma Bombeck
When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages. -- Paul Engle
To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling. -- P. G. Wodehouse
After a long time in laboratories, psychologists have discovered the holy grail of a happy marriage: I applied it and it didn't work -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Seek a happy marriage with wholeness of heart, but do not expect to reach the promised land without going through some wilderness together. -- Charlie W Shedd
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The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends. -- Robert Quillen
I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky. -- Maeve Binchy
In a marriage, you and your partner come first. And unless you and your partner are happy, that kid's never going to be happy. -- Mila Kunis
The marriage partner is not really the problem. No other person can ultimately make you happy. You must learn how to be happy within yourself. -- Joel Osteen
A happy marriage isn't the easiest thing in the world to achieve, but it's much easier to come by than a happy but illicit affair. -- Shirley Boone
Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy. -- Irving Layton
When you give a happy couple the opportunity to talk about what makes marriage great, it's like a water spigot you can't quite turn off. -- Fawn Weaver
Think to Thank. In these three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, formula for enduring friendship, and a pattern for personal happiness. -- Thomas S. Monson
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
It's clear your marriage is a happy one Your love is solid to the core May the years ahead be happy ones Each one happier than before -- John Walter Bratton
So it would be a happy marriage between the movement and the vocal and uh, this is the thing that you give a lot of consideration to. -- Cholly Atkins
We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time. -- Julia Child
I am very happy that he [Pope Fransis] did clarify this [marriage defenition], because the other situations can be partnership, can be relations, but certainly not marriage. -- Christoph Schonborn
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
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. -- Samuel Richardson
My first marriage was not happy. I married him because I was impressed that he knew which wines to order and how to leave his visiting card. Ridiculous reasons. -- Jean Seberg
Those first few years of marriage, before the war interrupted all our lives, Phil and I had a very happy time. I grew up considerably, mostly thanks to him. -- Katharine Graham
For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy. -- Marianne Faithfull
Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples. -- Neil Simon
A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition, interrupted by difficulties and plain, boring routine. -- Ursula Hegi
It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world. -- Elbert Hubbard
[A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which one human being can offer to another in the midst of the devastating intimacy of a happy marriage. -- Jan Struther
The secret to a happy marriage is patience and honesty. I really mean that. You have to be patient, you have to be open, and you also have to be available for criticism, too. -- Cindy McCain
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
It is lack of communication that leads to unhappy marriage. -- Lailah Gifty Akita

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