Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.

Compassion, not passion, keeps a marriage together.

As a man, if you're married, your happiness is with her happiness. If she's unhappy, everything's messed up. It's a woman's world for sure.

Fortunately, my wife shares the same values and is extremely supportive.

Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

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.

I am not married yet, but I think ultimately in a good marriage it is the relationship which is the most important thing. It is not a matter of who is right and who is wrong; it is a one plus one equals more than two.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Some of the best advice I got from a close friend is marriage is always looked at from the world as 50/50 as to working together to make that 100 percent.

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.

The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

I try to be the best husband I can be, and if people respect that, that's cool. But there's no 'perfect husband.' We just all try to do the best we can, you know what I mean?

A good husband makes a good wife.

A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.

I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to have that kind of romance.

The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.