A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
— Ruth Graham
Perspective Good Marriage quotations
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

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 good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

A successful marriage is made up of two good forgivers.
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.
The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time!

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
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 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.
Remember, a good marriage is like a campfire. Both grow cold if left unattended.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good.
Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage.
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!
The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse people would marry for good.

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 secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.
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.

Lust is the sin that gets me excited.
Luckily, because I'm married, I also get really good jewelry out of it.
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.
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.

It's true what they say - all the good men are married. But it's marriage that makes them good.
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.

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.
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.
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.

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.
Divorce sucks. Let me tell you, after five years of marriage, it is devastating to have the person with the good credit move out.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
I will be master of what is mine own: She is my goods, my chattels;
she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.
Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.
The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.
We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.
The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
The friendship that we established early on in our marriage ... that carries you through tough times. That and a good sense of humor.
My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.
Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.