marital contentment Quotes

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.

Some women have the best husbands. Others make the best of the husbands they have.

Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.

Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

the most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves.

Grateful return for happiness conferred is not the method of exchange in a partnership. The comfort a man takes with his wife is not in the nature of a business partnership, nor are her frugality and industry.

The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.

Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her.

It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world.