Aziz Ansari Quotes

The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.

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

The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.

The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living in that house enjoyed true happiness.

A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.

I am delighted by how much I enjoy being married.

I looked at other couples and wondered how they could be so calm about it. They held hands as if they weren't even holding hands. When Steve and I held hands, I had to keep looking down to marvel at it. There was my hand, the same hand I've always had - oh, but look! What is it holding? It's holding Steve's hand! Who is Steve? My three-dimensional boyfriend. Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy. I supposed I would go on being happy forever. I knew I would not mess things up by growing bored. I had done that once before.

To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.

I've got a happy marriage, which is the most important singular thing.

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

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without ceasing.

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.

I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the lord chancellor, upon a due consideration of the characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter.

For our purposes, let’s say a goal is a specific objective that you either achieve or don’t sometime in the future. A system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happiness in the long run. If you do something every day, it’s a system. If you’re waiting to achieve it someday in the future, it’s a goal.

My life here is perfect and I'm happy at Real Madrid so, of course, I want to stay as long as I can.

A lot of times, drama around it is not for the worse but for the best in the long run. If we look at it that way, I have learned to find the best of it in most situations.

... I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage - just choose someone you can't live without.

Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.

In the long run no individual prospers beyond the measure of his faith.