Marriage Quotes
If you've come here looking for one of the thousands of marriage quotes
that put down marriage...
... like "Marriage is the only war where you sleep with the enemy."
Or "The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him."
Or "A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished" - you've come to the wrong place.
What you'll find here are marriage quotes we think are positive, uplifting, romantic, nostalgic, funny, sad - the same sentiments you find in a full, satisfying marriage.
Maybe you're scouting for just the right marriage quote for a wedding reception or anniversary party. Maybe you want to write something unique in a card of letter to your partner, your parents, married friends. Or you're composing a speech or a paper on marriage, or giving a workshop on partnership, or writing a book.
Here you'll find a marriage quote for every occasion we can imagine, from all kinds of people (some famous, some not), contemporary and historic.
Happy hunting!
The more you invest in a marriagee, the more valuable it becomes.
Amy Grant
We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.
Raquel Welch
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Rita Rudner
The cure for love is marriage, and the cure for amrriage is love again.
Unknown
Getting married for sex is like buying a 747 for the free peanuts.
Jeff Foxworthy
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic, a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts, an enabler rather than a reformer.
Norman Wright and Gary Oliver
If marriage were outlawed, only outlaws would have in-laws.
Unknown
Car Manufacturer's formula for a successful marriaget: Stick to one model!
Unknown
Marriages are made in heaven. But, again, so are thunder, lightning, tornados and hail.
Unknown
The kind of marriage you make depends upon the kind of person you are. If you are a happy, well-adjusted person, the chances are your marriage will be a happy one. If you have made adjustments so far with more satisfaction than distress, you are likely to make your marriage and family adjustments satisfactorily. If you are discontented and bitter about your lot in life, you will have to change before you can expect to live happily ever after.
Evelyn Duvall and Reuben Hill
The middle years of arriage are the most crucial. In the early years, spouses want each other and in late years, they need each other.
Rebecca Tilly
Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.
Tom Mullen
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo Tolstoy
I didn't marry you because you were perfect.
I didn't even marry you because I loved you.
I married you because you gave me a promise.
That promise made up for your faults.
And the promise I gave you made up for mine.
Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marrigae.
And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them - it was that promise.
Thornton Wilder
Any fool can have a trophy wife.
It takes a real man to have a trophy marriage.
Diane Sollee
I think a man and a woman should choose each other for life, for the simple reason that a long life with all its accidents is barely enough time for a man and a woman to understand each other and... To understand - is to love.
William Butler Yeats
It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
Joseph Barth
Marriage is one long conversation, checkered with disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich
The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that mariage must be total, it must be permanent and it must be equal.
Frank Pittman
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Simone Signoret
Love is no assignment for cowards.
Ovid
People think they have to find their soul mate to have a good marriage.
You're not going to "find" your soul mate.
Anyone you meet already has soul mates - their mother. Their father. Their lifelong friends.
You get married, and after 20 years of loving, bearing and raising kids, meeting challenges - then you'll "create" your soul mate.
Diane Sollee
I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person, but I do know that many people have a lot of wrong ideas about mrariage and what it takes to make that marriage happy and successful. I'll be the first to admit that it's possible that you did marry the wrong person. However, if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. On the other hand, if you marry the right person, and treat that person wrong, you certainly will have ended up marrying the wrong person. I also know that it is far more important to be the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person. In short, whether you married the right or wrong person is primarily up to you.
Zig Ziglar
My heart is ever at your service.
William Shakespeare
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy - and satisfied.
It's your job to make your marriage happy - and satisfying.
Same goes for sex. It isn't supposed to make you passionate and "hot".
It's up to you to make it passionate and "hot" and intimate.
Diane Sollee
The challenge is to help couples turn "I Do" into "We Can."
Scott Stanley
If a married couple with children has fifteen minutes of uninterrupted, non-logistical, non-problem-solving talk every day, I would put them in the top 5% of all married couples. It's an extraordinary achievement.
Bill Doherty
Marriage is not just spiritual communion; it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Joyce Brothers
Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.
Michele Weiner-Davis
They do not love who do not show their love.
William Shakespeare
We are, each of us, angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other.
Luciano DeCrescenzo
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin
New love is the brightest, and long love is the greatest; but revived love is the tenderest thing known on earth.
Thomas Hardy
Love is a feeling, Marirage is a contract, and a Relationship is work.
Lori Gordon
All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to 'and they began the very hard work of making their marriages happy.
Linda Miles
To get divorced because love has died, is like selling your car because it's run out of gas.
Diane Sollee
Be presidents of each other's fan clubs.
Tony Heath
Love is a four-letter word spelled T-I-M-E.
Unknown
Marriage is a career, which brings about more benefits than many others.
Simone de Beauvoir
Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
I Corinthians 13:7
Marriage, families, all relationships are more a process of learning the dance rather than finding the right dancer.
Paul Pearsall
ACCEPT - the secret of a good marraige.
Attraction
Communication
Commitment
Enjoyment
Purpose
Trust
Unknown
The Beauty of Love:
The question is asked, "Is there anything more beautiful in life than a young couple clasping hands and pure hearts in the path of marriage? Can there be anything more beautiful than young love?"
And the answer is given. "Yes, there is a more beautiful thing. It is the spectacle of an old man and an old woman finishing their journey together on that path.
Their hands are gnarled, but still clasped; their faces are seamed, but still radiant; their hearts are physically bowed and tired, but still strong with love and devotion for one another. Yes, there is a more beautiful thing than young love. Old love."
Unknown
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.
Ogden Nash
Find the good - and praise it.
Alex Haley
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says, "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend."
Unknown
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
Olando Battista
Moonlight and roses are bound to fade for every lover and every maid but the bond that holds in any weather is learning how to laugh together.
Unknown
Many marriaeg would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Zig Ziglar
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
Billy Sunday
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
Joseph Campbell
Loves seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain
Marriage is a commitment- a decision to do, all through life, that which will express your love for one's spouse.
Herman H. Kieval
A good marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
Ruth Bell Graham
All things need watching, working at, caring for, and marriage is no exception. Marriag is not something to be indifferently treated or abused, or something that simply takes care of itself. Nothing neglected will remain as it was or is, or will fail to deteriorate. All things need attention, care and concern, and especially so in this most sensitive of all relationships of life.
Richard L. Evans
Remember to build each other up, to strengthen and sustain, to keep companionship lovely and alive. Remember dignity and respect; understanding; not expecting perfection; a sense of humor and a sense of what is sacred and serious; common purposes, common convictions, and the character to stay with a bargain, to keep a covenant - in these are the making of a good and solid marriage.
Richard L. Evans
Marriage is more than finding the right person. It is being the right person.
Unknown
Adam and Eve had an ideal marriage. He didn't have to hear about all the men she could have married... and she didn't have to hear about how well his Mother cooked.
Unknown
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
H.L. Mencken
There is nothing you can do, achieve or buy that will outshine the peace, joy, and happiness of being in communion with the partner you love.
Drs. Evelyn and Paul Moschetta
We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris Murdoch
That which is love is always beautiful.
Norwegian Proverb
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Dorothy Parker
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal
Love is one experience of life, which help you to discover the real meaning and enjoyment of life. Love is one beautiful journey, which helps us to get through the wild journey of life.
Paresh Patel
Love was not put there to stay. Love is not love until you give it away.
Diana Lou A. Peje
Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.
William Lyon Phelps
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Picasso
A heart in love hears music even when there is silence.
Tia Pilikian
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The minute I heard my first love story
I started looking for you,
Not knowing how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere,
They're in each other all along.
Rumi
Let there be spaces in your togetherness
Kahlil Gibran
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran
Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree.
Vita Sackville-West
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
Freedrich Holm Joseph Von Munch
Union gives strength.
Aesop
...And when two people understand each other in their inmost heats,
Their words are sweet and strong like the fragrance of orchids.
I Ching
...In marriage, everyday you love,
and everyday you forgive.
It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
Bill Moyers
The deed of love is stronger than words.
Pearl Bailey
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look that becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov
...To make One, there must be Two...
W.H. Auden
Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar;
but never doubt I love you.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die.
Till the sun grows cold and the
stars grow old.
William Shakespeare
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.
Virgil
If love were what the rose is, and I were like the leaf, our lives would grow together in sad or singing weather.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Love and you shall be loved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no remedy for love than to love more.
Henry David Thoreau
There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio.
What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made?
What is worth living for? What is worth dying for?
The answer to each is the same. Only love.
From the film Don Juan DeMarco
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind...
William Shakespeare
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Plato
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
Robert Browning
If music be the food of love, play on...
William Shakespeare