A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
— Ruth Graham
Perspective Good Marriage quotations
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you;
after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.
A successful marriage is made up of two good forgivers.
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman.
It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time!
In a good relationship, people get angry, but in a very different way.
The Marriage Masters see a problem a bit like a soccer ball. They kick it around. It's 'our' problem.
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous;
the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.
The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.
Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship.
We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers with the collapse of the relationship of the couple who brings a child into the world.
Remember, a good marriage is like a campfire. Both grow cold if left unattended.
The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.
It's true what they say - all the good men are married. But it's marriage that makes them good.
I want to thank my wife who I don't normally usually associate with Iran.
I want to thank you for working on our marriage for 10 Christmases. It's good. It is work, but it's the best kind of work, and there's no one I'd rather work with!
To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart - about a finger's breadth - for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule.
I have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love and care for each other in good times and in bad, the government shouldn't deny them the opportunity to get married.
The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
Divorce sucks. Let me tell you, after five years of marriage, it is devastating to have the person with the good credit move out.
People are often enamored with my Super Bowl ring.
But it's my wedding ring that I'm most proud of. And having a good marriage takes even more work than winning a Super Bowl.
A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.
We learned how to love each other by loving together good things wholly outside each other.
To me, the difference between a good marriage and a great marriage is conviction.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse people would marry for good.
Lust is the sin that gets me excited.
Luckily, because I'm married, I also get really good jewelry out of it.
Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good.
Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage.
Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.
The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
