1. The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.-Julia Child
2. The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don’t find very often, then that is what love is all about.-Bruce Forsyth
3. Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.-Melina Kanakaredes
4. Happily ever after is not a fairy tale. It’s a choice.-Fawn Weaver
5. A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.-Robert Quillen
7. The best time to love with your whole heart is always now, in this moment, because no breath beyond the current is promised.-Fawn Weaver
8. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds they mature slowly.Peter De Vries-Unknown Author
9. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.-Mignon McLaughlin
10. Two things are owed to truthfulness lasting marriages and short friendships.-Robert Brault
11. Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.-Oscar Wilde
12. Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.-Tom Mullen
13. The success of marriage comes not in finding the right person, but in the
ability of both partners to adjust to the real person they ineveitably realize they
married.-John Fischer
14. 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
15. Happy marriages are based on a deep friendship. By this I mean a mutual respect for and enjoyment of each other’s company-John Gottman
16. Happiness is only real when shared-Jon Krakaue
17. By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.-Socrates
18. The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.-Theodore Hesburgh
19. To get the full value of joy. You must have someone to divide it with.-Mark Twain
20. Commitment is making a choice to give up other choices.-Scott Stanley
21. Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases.-Milton Berle
22. A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.-Edgar Watson Howe
23. We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.-Ellen Goodman
24. The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret-Henny Youngman
25. We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.-Thomas Mann
26. 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
27. That’s my prescription for a happy marriage – marry someone who doesn’t do anything similar to what you do.-Maxine Kumin
28. A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.Andr Maurois-Unknown Author
29. The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
30. Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.-Jane Auste