Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.
Happy Married Life Quotes
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late. — Frank Sinatra
The fairy tales of how life is ‘supposed to be going’ will f*ck up your life. You don’t have to go to university at 18, get a job at 21, buy a house at 30, get married at 35, and have kids at 36. Everyone is completely different, and your path to happiness will be completely different too. — Steven Bartlett
I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. May I be happy and contented whether in the homeland or on the foreign field; whether married or alone, in happiness or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or adversity -- I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. I want it; oh, I want it. — Oswald J. Smith
Never regret anything that made you smile.
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
Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. — Jefferson Machamer
Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life. — Stephen Hawking
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. — Herbert V. Prochnow
I get irritated when people counsel me on what I should do with my life, or tell me I should get married, or tell me what I should do. I think people have their role models for happiness and it helps if others fit into that. — Anjelica Huston
I don't think you're happier if you're thin or beautiful or rich or married. You have to make your own happiness. My heroines do not become beautiful elegant swans, they become confident ducks and get on with life. — Maeve Binchy
But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess. — Michael Hutchence
Happy Marriage Quotes
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. — Paulo Coelho
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps. — Ronald Reagan
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. — Leo Tolstoy
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. — Dalai Lama
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. — James Dobson
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. — Jim Rohn
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you. — Rumi
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. — Franz Schubert
Happily Married Quotes
It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind or brain-damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married). — Phyllis Schlafly
The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal. — Salvador Minuchin
When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there. — Julia Roberts
Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
I can't be gay! I'm a happily married conservative, just like Ted Haggard and Larry Craig. — Stephen Colbert
You're asking somebody who has a wife and is really happily married, 'So, what's your next wife going to be like?' And I'm like, 'What?' — Travis Kalanick
Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts. — Roberta Flack
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general. — Novalis
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. — H. L. Mencken
I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink. — George Jean Nathan
The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else. — William Lyon Phelps
Happy Wife Quotes
The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters. — Genghis Khan
Man up and settle down. The sooner a man can gain control, identify his wife, and be faithful to her, the more successful, and happy you will be in life. Being with one woman in a faithful relationship will cause you to be the happiest version of yourself. — Tony Gaskins
If you want to live a happy life, don’t teach your wife how to drive a car or a motorcycle. — Junaid Jamshed
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife. — Daniel Boone
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it. — Lyndon B. Johnson
Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters. — Genghis Khan
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.
Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father. — Barry Sanders
To make a happy fireside clime
To weans and wife,
That's the true pathos and sublime
Of human life. — Robert Burns
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. — Socrates
I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia. — Peter MacKay
Married Life Quotes
I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother... Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life. — Leila Khaled
One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. — Yiddish Proverbs
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity with their vocation--but their progress will of necessity be but the pace of a hen. — Teresa of Avila
Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile. — Paul Tournier
I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine. — Grace Paley
Enjoy life now. This is not a rehearsal.
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. — Mark Twain
My life really began when I married my husband. — Nancy Reagan
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. — Anne Spencer
Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks. — Jennifer Crusie
Wonderful Marriage Quotes
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? — Groucho Marx
For you wake one day, look around and say, somebody wonderful married me. — Fred Ebb
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
Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is.
A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night. — Marilyn Monroe
'If You Could Read My Mind' was written during the collapse of my marriage. It's a great song. No one has any gripes about it. I wondered what my wife and daughter might think. My daughter is the one who got me to correct 'The feelings that you lacked' to 'The feelings that we lacked'. — Gordon Lightfoot
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. — Billy Connolly
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit. — Donald Johanson
My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time. — Kim Wilde
Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials. — Will Rogers
The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it. — Judith McNaught
Happy Couple Quotes
In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine. — Maya Angelou
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. — Oscar Wilde
I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there's nothing wrong with it. — Tia Mowry
I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do. — Parker Stevenson
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
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. — Oscar Wilde
Take a couple of days by yourself and rent a nice cabin in some nice, happy place. Stay a day or two and meditate and take walks in areas that feel good to you. Find out who you are again. Remember. — Frederick Lenz
Happy couples make it a habbit to refocus. Because it's quite normal to be distracted. So they talk. They get away for a while. They pray. They go on a marriage retreat. They take a second honeymoon or a 3rd, or 4th, or a 5th... — Bo Sanchez
I want you for always...days, years, eternities. — Franz Schubert
Every time I see a happy couple I want to give them a polygraph. — Dov Davidoff
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. — Helen Rowland
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal. — Anne Lamott
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. — Kai Knudsen
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. — Dallin H. Oaks
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. — Michel de Montaigne
The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time! — Heinz Kohut
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. — John M. Gottman
One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights. — African Proverbs
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. — Amy Grant
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. — Leo Tolstoy
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. — Dalai Lama
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. — Jim Rohn
The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by. — Buddha
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. — Roald Dahl
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong. — Marianne Williamson
If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination. — Paulo Coelho
Happy Relationship Quotes
Happy relationships don't just happen. You make them happen. — Bo Sanchez
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. — Douglas Pagels
You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. — Oprah Winfrey
It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. — Barbara De Angelis
You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us. — Christopher McCandless
We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence. — Cornel West
Things must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. — Buddha
We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy. — Paul David Tripp
Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself. — Socrates
I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was Always — Red Skelton
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. — Queen Victoria
I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home. — Frederick Sanger
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 poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. — Ann Landers
A lot of people [are] saying civil union," Faried told KDVR. "I don't like it being called that because I can get married to a female and it can be called a marriage. Why can't a female be married to a female and male be married to a male and it be called a marriage? You still have the same thing, same love and happiness. — Kenneth Faried
The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse
people would marry for good. — Ruby Dee
A woman must marry the man who loves her but never the one she loves; that is the secret of lasting happiness. — Mariama Bâ
Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union. — Cyril Connolly
I think all gay guys should get married. I think they should have to get married. They should have to adopt kids because, actually, I'm getting tired of their happy-go-lucky lifestyle. I've had it with them being all happy and in shape. I could look good in denim short shorts and combat boots, too, if I had all day to do leg presses at the gym. — Greg Giraldo
No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. — H. L. Mencken
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to. — J. R. R. Tolkien
If you’re not happy single, your not gonna be happy married. — Nick Vujicic
Being a housewife, makes women sick.It may therefore be that married women say they are happy because they are sick.To be happy in a relationship which imposes so many impediments on her, as traditional marriage does, women must be slightly mentally ill — Jessie Bernard
Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness. — Pope Francis
If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else. — Chinese Proverbs
I got married to an amazing woman, had 2 awesome kids and toured with Jeff Beck, I can die a happy man now. — Gary Hoey
Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. — George Will
Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that. — Nick Cave
Everyone has the right to be happy and be treated equally and I think not allowing gay marriage just kind of puts us back. I believe you're in love with who you're in love with, and you should be able to marry them. No one should tell someone else how to think or how to feel. — Kim Kardashian
Let others make war, you happy Austria marry, for kingdoms given to others by Mars, Venus will give to you. — Matthias Corvinus
By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. — Samuel Johnson
Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got to dye your hair cobalt blue, or wander remote islands in Sicily, or cook your way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year, for no very good reason. — Julie Powell
The triumph of hope over experience. — Samuel Johnson
And he knew at that moment that love world never die, that it would never fade away altogether. The time might come when he would meet and marry someone else. He might even be reasonably happy. But there would always be a deep precious place in his heart that belonged to his first real love. — Mary Balogh
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. — Lord Byron
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect. — D. H. Lawrence
Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible. — A. J. McLean
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