60 Happy Married Life Quotes: Secrets to Lasting Love

Marriage is a remarkable journey, a tapestry woven with joy, compromise, and the occasional tangle. How do some couples navigate the ups and downs with grace, maintaining a strong and happy bond? Within their experiences lie nuggets of wisdom – the “secrets” to lasting love.

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Happy Married Life Quotes

Classic and Timeless

  • “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” – André Maurois
  • “Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.” – Simone Signoret
  • “The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. Mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.” – Fawn Weaver
  • “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” – Mignon McLaughlin

Inspirational

  • “Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
  • “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
  • “Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.” – Tom Mullen
  • “There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.” – Martin Luther

Humorous (With a Touch of Truth)

  • “Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.” – Joyce Brothers
  • “A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.” – Pearl S. Buck
  • “The most important four words for a successful marriage: ‘I’ll do the dishes.'” – Anonymous
  • “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

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Focusing on Growth and Partnership

  • “Marriage lets you annoy one special person for the rest of your life.” – Unknown
  • “Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.” – Boris Pasternak
  • “Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.” – Jennifer Smith
  • “In every marriage, more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.” – Robert Anderson

Emphasizing Respect and Understanding

  • “A great marriage isn’t something that just happens; it’s something that must be created.” – Fawn Weaver
  • “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller (applicable to the love within a marriage)
  • “To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.” – Mark Twain
  • “Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.” – Franz Schubert

Celebrating Imperfections and Laughter

  • “Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.” – Erma Bombeck
  • “The secret to a happy marriage remains a secret.” – Henny Youngman
  • “A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” – Ruth Bell Graham
  • “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

The Power of Commitment and Choice

  • “What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.” – Leo Tolstoy
  • “Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person.” – Sophia Bush
  • “The difference between an ordinary marriage and an extraordinary marriage is in giving just a little ‘extra’ every day, as often as possible, for as long as we both shall live.” – Fawn Weaver
  • “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
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Short and Sweet

  • “Marriage: Where two people take turns messing up each other’s lives.” – Unknown
  • “Love is blind; marriage is the eye-opener.” – Pauline Thomason
  • “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
  • “A long-lasting marriage is built by two people who believe in and keep their wedding vows.” – Dave Willis

Focusing on Everyday Love

  • “Happiness is being married to your best friend.” – Unknown
  • “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
  • “Real love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
  • “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
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Quotes with a Touch of Wisdom

  • “Marriage is like a deck of cards. In the beginning, all you need is two hearts and a diamond. But later, you wish you had a club and a spade.” – Unknown
  • “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” – Theodore Hesburgh
  • “Marriage is a gift. It should be opened up and enjoyed.” – Greg Evans
  • “There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.” – Ronald Reagan

Emphasizing Love as an Action

  • “Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day.” – Barbara De Angelis
  • “Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.” – Joseph Barth
  • “In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that’s ever happened to me.” – Caroline Kennedy
  • “Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.” – Michael Leunig

Playful and Humorous

  • “Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.” – George Bernard Shaw
  • “Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity.” – Unknown
  • “Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted a whole day.” – Mickey Rooney
  • “I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” – Rita Rudner

Emphasizing the Perks

  • “The first five years of marriage are tough, and then you just have to weather the next fifty!” – Unknown
  • “The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they’re too old to do it.” – Anne Bancroft.
  • “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
  • “Some mornings I wake up grumpy. And some mornings I just let him sleep.” – Unknown

Sentimental and Heartfelt

  • “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” – Nora Ephron (from When Harry Met Sally)
  • “The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only wise men can see them.” – Paulo Coelho
  • “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning
  • “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau
  • “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Focused on Partnership and Support

  • “A good marriage is one where each partner secretly suspects they got the better deal.” – Unknown
  • “To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
  • “What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life – to strengthen each other … to rest on each other.” – George Eliot
  • “The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. Mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.” – Fawn Weaver
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