Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses. — James Dobson
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. — Rita Rudner
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. — Andre Maurois
A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness. — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages. — Frank Pittman
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love. — Madeleine L'Engle
The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must
be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal. — Frank Pittman
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude — Rainer Maria Rilke
The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before. — Irving Stone
Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. — Esther Perel
A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world. — Robert Breault
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. — Ann Landers
Short Lasting Marriage Quotes
A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork. — Gad Saad
A successful marriage is made up of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage. — William Lyon Phelps
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. — Aeschylus
Live together a year before getting married. — Moroccan Proverbs
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. — Honore de Balzac
Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever. — Nora Ephron
Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage. — Joey Ramone
I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life. — Beatrix Potter
Lasting Marriage Image Quotes
You can't rush something you want to last forever.
Long Lasting Marriage Quotes
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
A happy wedlock is a long falling in love. — Theodore Parker
I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership. — Carson Daly
Embarrassment lasts a moment, regrets last a lifetime.
That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow. — George Eliot
There is such pleasure in long-term marriage that I really would hate to be
my age and not have had a long-term marriage. Remember, sustaining a pleasurable,
long-term marriage takes effort, deliberateness and an intention to learn about
one another. In other words, marriage is for grown-ups. — Cokie Roberts
I've had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people - you could almost call them marriages, even though I didn't marry. But it was costly. — Al Pacino
Don't give up. Normally it is the last key on the ring that opens the door.
Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom. — Carolyn Heilbrun
Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together. — John Deacon
If you want true love and a long-lasting marriage, you need to start by figuring out what makes you happy. — Amy Webb
When a couple gets to the last stage, one or both partners may have an affair. But an affair is usually a symptom of a dying marriage, not the cause. The end of that marriage could have been predicted long before either spouse strayed. — John M. Gottman
Lasting Love And Marriage Quotes
Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not. — Michele Weiner-Davis
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song. — Etta James
Your best teacher is your last mistake
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of
silence is large enough beyond the grave. — George Eliot
When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same
person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible." — Billy Graham
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. — Benjamin Franklin
Always tell someone how you feel, because opportunities are lost in the blink of an eye but regrets can last for a lifetime.
A heart isn't something you get. It's something that's born. — Yukiru Sugisaki
Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships. — Robert Breault
I can fall in and out of love, have marriages that barely last a month. When they go down the drain, I'll blame it on the fame. — Brad Paisley
Forever Marriage Quotes
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. — Janos Arany
After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love. — Monica Bellucci
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage; the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue. — Vita Sackville-West
Marriage, at first, may seem like it will last forever. But surprisingly, a lot of the times, it shatters easily. Like porcelain. — Lee Joon-gi
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever — Nicholas Sparks
Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation.
If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. — F. Burton Howard
[Marriage] a bond for life, and whether you're gay or straight, it makes no difference to being married. What marriage stands for is that you love that person... You want to commit yourself to that person forever. — Cheryl Cole
Marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond, only it doesn't last 22 minutes. It lasts forever. — Paul Rudd
Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true. — Robert Breault
What Is Marriage Quotes
My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky — Nizar Qabbani
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. — Leo Tolstoy
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late. — Frank Sinatra
Be careful who you make memories with. Those things can last a lifetime.
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting. — Helen Rowland
Never be too busy for the people you love. Never allow pursuits or possessions to become bigger priorities than your relationships. Love is what gives meaning to life. — Dave Willis
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
You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one
What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God? — John Donne
That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life. — Paul Tournier
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 Christian church does not ask the U. S. Supreme Court, or any other human court, what marriage is. Marriage is a pre-political institution defined by our Creator - for His glory and for human flourishing. — Albert Mohler
Lasting Relationship Quotes
You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? — Bob Marley
Every relationship has tough days. Don't let the grudge last. Be the first to try to make things right and stop waiting for an apology. — Nouman Ali Khan
In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional relationship with the child. Somebody's got to be crazy about that kid. That's number one. First, last and always. — Urie Bronfenbrenner
If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I'm about to do today.
I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively present to the student-to each student-as he addresses me. The time interval may be brief but the encounter is total. — Nel Noddings
When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself. — Deepak Chopra
So your having trouble with your partner. Well ask yourself, if you were in a relationship with a replica of yourself how long would it last? — Jacque Fresco
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned, and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.
A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure. — J. Paul Getty
I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term? — Nicholas Sparks
The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love. — Stephen Kendrick
All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long. — Sappho
Lasting Love Quotes
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man. — Charles Dickens
Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it. — King Hussein I
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. — W. Somerset Maugham
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star. — E. E. cummings
Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men — Gifford Pinchot
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -- it gives a lovely light! — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Long Lasting Relationship Quotes
When you think something nice about someone, tell them right then. It's a tiny habit that will pay long-lasting dividends. — Sahil Bloom
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more. — Nicholas Sparks
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves. — Francoise Sagan
I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it's not likely to happen the way they are going about it. — Jennifer Beals
Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence. — Leslie Morgan Steiner
Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with some one long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family. — Chelsea Handler
All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime. — Bell Hooks
The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly. — Zoe Lister-Jones
I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last — Nicholas Sparks
A relationship is like a rose,How long it lasts, no one knows;Love can erase an awful past,Love can be yours, you'll see at last;To feel that love, it makes you sigh,To have it leave, you'd rather die;You hope you've found that special rose,'Cause you love and care for the one you chose. — Rob Cella
Lasting Happiness Quotes
Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave. — Simon Bolivar
Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority. — Arthur Schopenhauer
When we help ourselves, we find moments of happiness. When we help others, we find lasting fulfillment. — Simon Sinek
How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes. — Bill W.
For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of all the unhappiness and misery stored in the deeper levels of the mind. — S. N. Goenka
The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. — Randy Pausch
Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak. — Tal Ben-Shahar
Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness. — William Henry Harrison
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. — Fran Lebowitz
Strong Marriage Quotes
A strong marriage requires two people who choose to love each other even on those days when they struggle to like each other. — Dave Willis
Love does not come to those who seek it, but to those who give love. It is a binding force between souls who have nothing to give but themselves to one another. — Harold Klemp
Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own. — Deb Caletti
A strong marriage requires loving your spouse even in those moments when they aren't being lovable; it means believing in them even when they struggle to believe in themselves. — Dave Willis
The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future. — Jim Talent
It takes something to get married: nerve, hope, a strong desire to make a certain statement - and it takes something to stay married: more hope, determination, a sense of humor, and needs that are best met by being in a pair. — Amy Bloom
Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength. — Timothy Keller
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. — Boris Pasternak
Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies. — Susan Sontag
Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Successful Marriage Quotes
(Was he talking about a polar expedition, or marriage?) -Jorge Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success. — Ernest Shackleton
giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job for a superwoman, and only some such fabled being could have accomplished it with success. — Storm Jameson
The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much. — Colin Chapman
If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win. — John Gray
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. — Harold Nicolson
The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe. — Denzel Washington
For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end. — Catherine Zeta-Jones
I think marriage is dangerous. The idea of two people trying to possess each other is wrong. I don't think the flare of love lasts. Your mind rather than your emotions must answer for the success of matrimony. It must be friendship - a calm companionship which can last through the years. — Carole Lombard
Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person. — Robert Browning
Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage. — Richard G. Scott
Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each
other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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. — William J Doherty
It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed. — Carrie Underwood
My last night as Isabella Swan. Tomorrow night, I would be Bella Cullen. Though the whole marriage ordeal was a thorn in my side, I had to admit that I liked the sound of that. - bella swan — Stephenie Meyer
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. — Joseph Barth
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
Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you. — Alan Zweibel
The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse
people would marry for good. — Ruby Dee
Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others. — Simone de Beauvoir
A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life. — Jim Samuels
A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life. — Woody Allen
My dad got divorced six times. Well, he actually only got divorced five times. He wouldn't divorce the sixth one 'cause he said he didn't want people to think he couldn't commit. 'I don't want people not taking me serious.' Dad, your last marriage was performed in Reno by an ordained lesbian Elvis impersonator. Who you hit on. — Christopher Titus
Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside. — Frank Pittman
I discover that some of the Eastern papers represent me as a great blasphemer, because I said, in my lecture on Marriage, at our last Conference, that Jesus Christ was married at Cana of Galilee, that Mary, Martha, and others were his wives, and that he begat children. — Orson Pratt
Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing. — Aristotle
Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare." — Michael Novak
The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself. — Barbara Walters
Marriage is the hardest thing you will ever do. The secret is removing divorce as
an option. Anybody who gives themselves that option will get a divorce. — Will Smith
Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? — Rita Rudner
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
My parents only had one argument in 45 years. It lasted 43 years. — Cathy Ladman
grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made. — Robert Browning
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success. — J. Paul Getty
Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?' — Rodney Dangerfield
The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow " For better or for worse--it was the last generation in which, broadly speaking, marriage was a commitment and divorce was not an option — Tom Brokaw
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
The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year. — Hedy Lamarr
My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other. — Marina Abramovic
Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited. — Gloria Steinem
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever. — Mark Twain
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid! — Robert Browning
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