Samuel Johnson Quotes

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

The most important thing - and I've said it a hundred times and I'll say it a hundred times - if you marry a man, marry the right one.

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

They say the most important decision you make in life is your choice of a spouse. I've been lucky with that.

No offense, but I don't get the whole concept of arranged marriage. I'd rather know the person who I'll settle down with.

Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

Happy wife, happy life. I think every man learns that quick. Really quick.

I was surprised to learn that research showed arranged couples tended to be happier in the long run.

He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of life.

There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.'

That is how our marriage is working so well. My secret of happiness is keeping my contact to the minimum.

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.

I do think the secret to a good marriage is separate bathrooms.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.

Un-Arrange a Marriage … Re-Arrange a Life

I have known a few good marriages, but very few. And others look to me like they're pretty miserable. I don't really think that's a recipe for happiness.

Arranged marriages are ones where you got to learn who the person is after you actually get married, which can be challenging.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

I don't know! Nobody has ever known. Why would Jesus have remained unmarried if he had known the secret? He knew the secret of the kingdom of God, but he did not know the secret of remaining happy in marriage. He remained unmarried. Mahavira, Lao Tzu Chuang Tzu, they all remained unmarried for the simple reason that there is no secret; otherwise these people would have discovered it. They could discover the ultimate - marriage is not such a big thing, it is very shallow - they even fathomed God, but they could not fathom marriage.

If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.

A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.