Quotes on Successful Marriage

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

Successful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, non-programmed. It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along. As a drop of oil on the sea, you must float, using intellect and compassion to ride the waves.

It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him.