Samuel Adams Quotes

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.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

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

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence.

Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Having a loving relationship with our spouse or with our children is what leads to the long-term happiness we all seek.

It's such a lovely feeling to be in love, to marry the person you love and finally to be with that person. I feel the romance should never go out of any marriage. Even after one has had kids, etc. Love never ends, na?

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.

Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.

I think it's a mistake if people just fall in love and think that that's the only thing you need to keep you happy. There's a lot more to being with someone than just love.

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.

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.

Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony.

After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.

Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It's all about who you pick; in that first moment, did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who's more interested in being married than in getting married.

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'd like to have a successful marriage, not for the sake of labelling or branding, but because I believe in the institution of marriage.

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.