150+ Best Marriage Quotes of All Time

“Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.”

“A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.”

“Love one another, as I have loved you.”

“Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.”

“Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge.”

“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”

“Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.”

“People happy in love have an air of intensity.”

“Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.”

“Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.”

“They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.”

“What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”

“Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.”

“And she became his wife, and he loved her.”

“From this day forward, you shall not walk alone. Your heart shall be my shelter and my arms will be your home.”

“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.”

“One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.”

“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”

“In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.”

“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”

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

“If I get married, I want to be very married.”

“Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other’s strengths.”

“Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.”

“‘Safe Harbor’ is a state of mind… it’s the place – in reality or metaphor – to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.”

“Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.”

“Marriage is a risk; I think it’s a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.”

“”In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow.”

“In Italy, they say rain on your wedding day is symbolic of fresh beginnings, cleansing, a pure marriage, and also a wet knot that can’t be untied.”

“May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.”

“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”

“In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.”

“You don’t marry someone you can live with — you marry someone you cannot live without.”

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”

“Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day.”

“Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.”

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.”

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”

“True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.”

“Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.”

“The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”

“There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”

“Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without.”

“A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.”

“Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.”

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

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

“Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing… the secret of having it all is loving it all.”

“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”

“It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.”

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

“One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.”

“In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.”

“Marriage is socialism among two people.”

“Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.”

“Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it.”

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

“All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest – never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.”

“All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.”

“Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.”

“Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.”

“Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.”

“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.”

“Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There’s immense happiness that can come from working towards that.”

“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.”

“The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make – not just on your wedding day, but over and over again – and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.”

“We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.”

“It’s not someone else’s responsibility to honor my marriage. It’s my responsibility.”

“Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!”

“Compassion, not passion, keeps a marriage together.”

“Marriage should never become an adjustment or a compromise. Both the partners should be equally happy and willing to invest their love, care, and respect in the relationship – only then it works.”

“There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.”

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”

“Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.”

“The first duty of love is to listen.”

“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.”

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

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

“Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.”

“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”

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

“Marriage should be a duet – when one sings, the other claps.”

“Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it’s not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.”

“When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.”

“I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.”

“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.”

“The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.”

“Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.”

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

“The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.”

“Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.”

“When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.”

“But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, ‘Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.’ “

“Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.”

“The ease and pleasure of a long marriage is like gold dust. You feel fed and sustained and that you’re intimately known.”

“Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.”

“To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up.”

“By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”

“The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.”

“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.”

“All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.”

“If love means never having to say you’re sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

“Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.”

“Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.”

“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”

“I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.”

“Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.”

“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.”

“Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted the whole day.”

“Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.”

“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.”

“Marriage – a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.”

“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.”

“Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.”

“One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.”

“Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.”

“He’s the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.”

“Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.”

“Marriage is a mistake every man should make.”

“Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.”

“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.”

“If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.”

“After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don’t agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!”

“I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewellery.”

“Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”

“He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.”

“Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.”

“When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.”

“In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.”

“If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you’d have a hell of a lot of overlapping.”

“In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded of their failures and limited by the energies of another person. It is rife with judgment and blame.”

“Never stay in a bad marriage, and don’t hang around with psycho coke fiends.”

“Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.”

“Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.”

“Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that’s nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it’s ignored, it withers.”

“A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.”

“The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.”

“Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.”

“Husbands are like fires – they go out when they’re left unattended.”

“The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they’re too old to do it.”

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

“An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren’t.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

“There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.”

“I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?”

“If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.”

“Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.”

“A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.”

“Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.”

“A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.”