128 Perfect Marriage Quotes

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Famous Perfect Marriage Quotes

A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other. — Dave Willis

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 happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. - Ruth Graham

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham

A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world. — Robert Breault

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

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. - Michel de Montaigne

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. — Michel de Montaigne

A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal. — Anne Lamott

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude — Rainer Maria Rilke

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God. — Myles Munroe

A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it. — Mignon McLaughlin

A successful marriage is made up of two good forgivers. - Ruth Graham

A successful marriage is made up of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. - Henny Youngman

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

The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage. — William Lyon Phelps

Short Perfect Marriage Quotes

  • A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness. — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
  • The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time! — Heinz Kohut
  • Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth. — Edwin Louis Cole
  • The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before. — Irving Stone
  • Happy wife, happy life. — Paul Orfalea
  • May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise. — Rumi
  • A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork. — Gad Saad
  • When husband and wife live in harmony, they can dry up the ocean without a bucket. — Vietnamese Proverbs
  • Marriage functions best when both partners remain somewhat unmarried. — Claudia Cardinale

Perfect Marriage Image Quotes

Perfect marriage quote Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.

No Perfect Marriage Quotes

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

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

When it is time to part, then it is time to part. There should be no regrets. The beauty of marriage is like the fleeting perfection of a snowflake. — Deng MingDao

Perfect marriage quote Today is the perfect day to be happy.
Today is the perfect day to be happy.

I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them. — Andy Rooney

An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

[Speaking of marriage and family] In this entire world there is not a more perfect, more complete image of God, Unity and Community. There is no other human reality which corresponds more, humanly speaking, to that divine mystery. — Pope John Paul II

Perfect marriage quote Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

To me, this is the perfect marriage. There's no friction. There's just, we have what they need, they have what we need. And so IBM is in the process, with our help, of designing many different apps for many different verticals. — Tim Cook

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

When it is time to part, then it is time to part. There should be no regrets. The beauty of marriage is like the fleeting perfection of a snowflake. — Ming-Dao Deng

Perfect Wedding Quotes

SEO isn’t about content creation. It’s about content promotion. — Brian Dean

Stop waiting for the right person to come into your life. Be the right person to come to someone’s life. — Leo Babauta

I love this club, and to be wearing number 10 for Tottenham is amazing for me. I could not resist. — Harry Kane

Perfect marriage quote Have no fear of perfection. You'll never reach it.
Have no fear of perfection. You'll never reach it.

Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid temples, the huckleberry pie, the wedding ring, the circus ring, the ring for the waiter, and the "round" of drinks. — O. Henry

Six happy years together Such a perfect matching You're entering the 7 year itch zone This is no time for scratching — John Walter Bratton

I’m 100 percent gonna beat Ronda Rousey – I’m 200 percent. — Amanda Nunes

Perfect marriage quote Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

If you can’t do a thing better than others are doing it, don’t do it at all. — Philip Arthur Fisher

Treat marriage like a diamond necklace; if broken, fix it, but do not throw it away. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You know you're in love when you stop comparing. — Mason Cooley

We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops. — Henny Youngman

Ideal Marriage Quotes

The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say. — Alfred Hitchcock

Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken. — Oscar Wilde

The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the constriction of the marriage tie, is of significance to an ideal relationship. — Heloise

Perfect marriage quote To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. — Anthony Kennedy

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. — John Updike

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people. — Jonathan Franzen

Perfect marriage quote Love is when you sit beside someone doing nothing, yet you feel perfectly happy
Love is when you sit beside someone doing nothing, yet you feel perfectly happy

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only. — Oscar Wilde

Next to the love between man and his Creator, The love of one man and one woman, Is the loftiest and the most illusive ideal, That has been set before the world. A perfect marriage is like a pure heart: Those who have it are fit to see God. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over preserving an actual marriage. — Dan Savage

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Perfect Anniversary Quotes

Longer content helps you rank better for your target keyword and brings in more long-tail traffic… a win-win. — Brian Dean

If I know what love is, it is because of you. — Hermann Hesse

We all tried rapping, we all tried singing, we all tried different kinds of styles and performances, so we naturally found our perfect spot. — Lisa Manoban

Perfect marriage quote I don't know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
I don't know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

A click-worthy title is actually worth a lot more than just a perfectly keyword-targeted title. — Rand Fishkin

I want to show to everyone that I am simply the best. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths — Mark Twain

Perfect marriage quote Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation.
Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation.

A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough. — Mignon McLaughlin

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event. — Oscar Wilde

Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good editor is one of the sharpest tools a writer can have in her toolbox. — Karin Slaughter

Good Marriage Quotes

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

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage. — Martin Luther

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

Perfect marriage quote And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. — Kai Knudsen

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

Perfect marriage quote Darling, a beautiful thing is never perfect.
Darling, a beautiful thing is never perfect.

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 husband with a good wife will never be on the road without supplies. — African Proverbs

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. — H. L. Mencken

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. — Paul Bloom

Perfect 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

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational. — Hugh Mackay

When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies. — Yasmin Mogahed

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. — Stephen Covey

A happy family is but an earlier heaven. — George Bernard Shaw

You got your guards up, I do too, there's things we might discover. Cause you got a past and I do too, we're perfect for each other. — Drake

Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands...Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection. — Giorgio Agamben

Sex is... perfectly natural. It's something that's pleasurable. It's enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don't we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual? — Sue Johanson

I aint sayin I'm requestin anyone that's perfect but I just need a woman that'll make it all worth it. — Drake

The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. — Tony Robbins

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More Perfect Marriage Quotes

It's what we live for, to be able to make great illusions. The thing about 'Entourage' is everything we do is realistic. We go to the real places, we shoot on location. We get the real people. It's a perfect marriage between fact and fiction. — Adrian Grenier

The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 A.M. — Charlie Pierce

The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables." — James Dobson

The free exchange of consent properly witnessed by the Church establishes the marriage bond. Sexual union consummates it - seals it, completes it, perfects it. Sexual union, then, is where the words of the wedding vows become flesh. — Christopher West

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints. — Bruce Barton

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

Good bread and good butter go together. They are one of the perfect marriages in gastronomy, and they never fail to cheer me. — James Beard

To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect. — Criss Jami

Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage. — Francis Schaeffer

Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions. — Henry Rollins

When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William's marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. 'Wet' is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin'. — Snoop Dogg

Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle. — Lindsey Vonn

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not. — Dalton Trumbo

I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love. — Anne Truitt

He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection. — Robert Boyle

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time. — John Leguizamo

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature. — Jack Kingston

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected. — Stockwell Day

May I wish for you the knowledge...that marriages do not take place, they are made by hand; that there is always an element of discipline involved; that however perfect the honeymoon, the time will come, however brief it is, when you wish she would fall downstairs and break a leg. This goes for her too. But the mood will pass, if you give it time. — Raymond Chandler

A perfect marriage is like a pure heart ... those who have it are fit to see God. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another. — Martin Luther

God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her. — Ben Tillett

I really wanted to show [in "fences"] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working. — Viola Davis

[On husband Gavin Rossdale:] We're a perfect couple. He cooks, and I eat. — Gwen Stefani

Remember to build each other up, to strengthen and sustain, to keep companionship lovely and alive. Remember dignity and respect; understanding; not expecting perfection; a sense of humor and a sense of what is sacred and serious; common purposes, common convictions, and the character to stay with a bargain, to keep a covenant - in these are the making of a good and solid marriage. — Richard L. Evans

Justice has often been forged from fires of indignities and prejudices suffered. Our triumphs that celebrate the freedom of choice are hallowed. We have arrived upon another moment in history when 'We the People' becomes more inclusive, and our freedom more perfect. — Arenda L. Wright Allen

I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant. — Leah Ward Sears

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