Happy Marriage quotes
36 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible."
"Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world."
"I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over."
"If the marriage ain't happy, ain't nobody happy."
"Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!"
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"The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones."
"My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one."
"Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages."
