Quotes of: Happy-marriage Keyword

The Ideal age for marriage in men is 35. The Ideal age for marriage in women is 18

Aristotle

But if Hugh dies first, would I ever be able to stop saying, "we" and say "I"? I doubt it. I do not think that death can take away the fact that Hugh and I are "we" and "us," a new creature born of the time of our marriage vows, which has grown along...

Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

Marriage is a sack full of ninety-nine snakes and one eel.

Spanish

The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the “I do” of the wedding ritual in all sincerity, it is the testing of that vow over time that makes you married.

Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life

We tell ourselves that intimacy (and marriage) takes two people who are willing to work at it-but, unfortunately, we rarely have the slightest inkling of our "job" assignments in this project.

Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships

If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is legal to enjoy the same economic advantages that federal laws now grant to straight couples? Or is it a 'co...

Jeff Greenfield

A good marriage is, at least, one part conspiracy.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Connections only caused a ripping pain no one deserved.

The Marriage Bargain

Marriage is contagious and so is monogamy.

Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Oscar Wilde

I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.

Gary Johnson

The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.

Anita Ekberg

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Michel de Montaigne

I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

Joel Osteen

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Ellen Key

I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

Bob Newhart

I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.

Corrine Brown

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

Christopher Lasch

Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.

Denise Richards

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

Eleanor Holmes Norton