Last updated on January 2nd, 2024 at 12:33 pm
โMarriage โ by โMarko Milivojevic โ, licensed under CC0 1.0
โHappily ever afterโ is every coupleโs dream. However, marriage is a commitment beyond love, and like any other relationship, it goes through different challenges. For this reason, there are different ways to make marriages work. A great example is reading marriage quotes for some extra inspiration.
Marriage quotes come in different categories. So, whether you are looking for happy marriage quotes, funny quotes about marriage, or anything in between, youโll find these and more at TurtleQuote.com.ย These quotes will give you a different perspective on marriage. As a result, you will develop the much-needed patience, tolerance, understanding and a little bit of humour throughout your marriage life.
Happy Marriage Quotes
โHappy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.โ
Franz Schubert
โTo get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.โ
Mark Twain
โHappy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we married.โ
Tom Mullen
โYour marriage is a glorious bond but donโt take it as an easy task. It is meant to be worked uponย โ similar to all of your other relationships.โ
Raymond Eido
โWhat counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.โ
Leo Tolstoy
โMarriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission.โ
Meir Soloveichik
โMarriage is a gift from God to us. The quality of our marriage is our gift back to him.โ
L. Whitney Clayton
โYour marriage is never defined by the size of the struggles you face. It is always defined by the commitment towards each other amidst those struggles.โ
Anonymous
โEvery good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If itโs not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.โ
Anonymous
โA happy marriage is the union of two good forgives.โ
โOne 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 back in love again.โ
Judith Viorst
โMarriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.โ
Jennifer Smith
โMarriage is a huge investment: of time, of energy and of emotion. Protect and keep contributing to your investment.โ
Karen Gordon
โA happy marriage doesnโt mean you have a perfect spouse or a perfect marriage. It simply means youโve chosen to look beyond the imperfections in both.โ
Fawn Weaver
โA perfect happy marriage is simply two imperfect people loving each other and refusing to give up on each other no matter what.โ
Anonymous
โA good marriage is where both people feel like theyโre getting the better end of the deal.โ
Anne Lamott
โA successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.โ
Mignon McLaughlin
โThere is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.โ
Martin Luther
โWhen a marriage works, nothing on Earth can take its place.โ
Helen Gahagan Douglas
โWhen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.โ
โIf there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.โ
Michel de Montaigne
โSimply put, a marriage is not a marriage without the existence of two individuals who promised to love each other.โ
Jessica Gardner
Funny Marriage Quotes
โI love being married. Itโs so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.โ
Rita Rudner
โWhen you see a married couple walking down the street, the one thatโs a few steps ahead is the one thatโs mad.โ
Helen Rowland
โBefore you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.โ
Will Ferrell
โSpend a few minutes a day really listening to your spouse. No matter how stupid his problems sound to you.โ
Megan Mullally
โI married for love, but the obvious side benefit of having someone around to find my glasses cannot be ignored.โ
Cameron Esposito
โBecause I always say, if youโre married for 50 years, and 10 of them are horrible, youโre doing really good!โ
Michelle Obama
โAfter about 15 years I finally figured out that sheโs always right. So surprisingly we just stopped fighting after that.โ
Barack Obama
โBy all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you will be happy. If you get a bad one, you will be a philosopher.โ
โThe best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps theyโre too old to do it.โ
Anne Bancroft
โLove, gratitude, compassion, because sometimes every man or every woman will drive their partner crazy.โ
Goldie Hawn
โHusband secretly lowers the thermostat and I secretly turn it back on. We both vehemently deny touching it. Marriage is fun.โ
Stephanie Ortiz
โYou know there is a name for people who are always wrong about everything all the timeโฆ Husband!โ
Bill Maher
โMake sure you have date night even if itโs once in a blue moon because most of the time youโre just too tired and youโd actually prefer to sleep.โ
Chris Hemsworth
โAfter about 20 years of marriage, Iโm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate .โ
Mel Gibson
โMarriage lets you annoy one special person for the rest of your life.โ
Anonymous
โMarriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.โ
Joyce Brothers
โMy most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.โ
Winston Churchill
โWe were married for better or worse. I couldnโt have done better and she couldnโt have done worse.โ
โAn archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.โ
Agatha Christie
โMarriage is an alliance entered into by a man who canโt sleep with the window shut, and a woman who canโt sleep with the window open.โ
George Bernard Shaw
Marriage Advice Quotes
โMarriage is not a noun; itโs a verb. It isnโt something you get. Itโs something you do. Itโs the way you love your partner every day.โ
Barbara De Angelis
โMarriage stands the test of times when both you and your spouse work towards making things better. And we are tested the most when we face adversities. If you can sail through the adversities as one, as a team, then you have won half the battle.โ
Anonymous
โMarriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.โ
Susan B. Anthony
โIt is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.โ
Friedrich Nietzsche
โA great marriage isnโt something that just happens; itโs something that must be created.โ
Fawn Weaver
โMarriage is like music. Both are playing different instruments but as long as theyโre playing from the same sheet, they can create something beautiful.โ
Anonymous
โLaughter is the best medicine. Choose the person that will be your โdoctorโ for life.โ
Anonymous
โTo keep your marriage brimming, whenever you are wrong to admit it, and whenever youโre right shut up.โ
โA great marriage is not when the โperfect coupleโ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.โ
Dave Meurer
โA great marriage is a contest of generosity.โ
Diane Sawyer
โThe greatest marriages are built on teamwork. A mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.โ
Fawn Weaver
โThe real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. Itโs 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.โ
Barbara De Angelis
โWhen 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.โ
Friedrich Nietzsche
โLove has nothing to do with what you are expecting to getโonly with what you are expecting to giveโwhich is everything.โ
Katharine Hepburn
โA marriage doesnโt have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.โ
Jessica Simpson
โHolding hands is a promise to one another that, for just a moment, the two of you donโt have to face the world alone.โ
Anonymous
โEnjoy every single moment. The good, the bad, the beautiful, the ugly, the inspiring, the not-so-glamorous moments. And thank God through it all.โ
Meghan Matt
โLet the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.โ
Husband and Wife Quotes
โA happy marriage is about three things: memories of togetherness, the forgiveness of mistakes and a promise to never give up on each other.โ
Surabi Surendra
โI got gaps; you got gaps; we fill each otherโs gapsโฆLove is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people; you can set your watch by them. And thatโs love, even if it doesnโt seem very exciting.โ
Sylvester Stallone
โHusband and wife relationships are like the relationship of Tom and Jerry. Though they are teasing and fighting, but canโt live without each other.โ
Anonymous
โHusbands, love your wives well! Your children are noticing how you treat her. You are teaching your sons how they should treat women, and you are teaching your daughters what they should expect from men.โ
Dave Willis
โA good husband makes a good wife.โ
Anonymous
โAny home can be a castle when the king and queen are in love.โ
Anonymous
โAs husband and wife, we will fight, we will argue, we will disagree, and we will even shed some tears, but we will also fight through each of those moments with love.โ
Anonymousย
โA husband and a wife see each other at their worst and choose to love each other anyway.โ
Anonymous
โAย good husband wipes her tears, but a great husband listens to the story of why sheโs crying.โ
Anonymous
โDonโt ever stop dating your wife and donโt ever stop flirting with your husband.โ
โWho makes me feel more home than my house? My spouse.โ
Anonymous
โA husband and wife may disagree on many things but they must absolutely agree on this: to never, ever give up.โ
Anonymous
โI love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.โ
Roy Croft
โThere is no such cozy combination as man and wife.โ
ย Menander
โIn vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.โ
Fitzwilliam Darcy
โDonโt ever stop holding my hand. With you by my side I know that we can make it through anything that comes our way.โ
Anonymous
โOne of the nicest things you can say to your spouse, โIf I had it to do over again, Iโd choose you. Again.โ
Anonymous
Marriage Inspiration Quotes
โSo itโs not gonna be easy. Itโs going to be really hard; weโre gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and meโฆ everyday.โ
Nicholas Sparks
โThe secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls.โ
Bruce Forsyth
โA strong marriage requires two people who choose to love each other even on those days when they struggle to like each other.โ
โLove is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.โ
Boris Pasternak
โLove recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.โ
Maya Angelou
โWeโre all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdnessโand call it loveโtrue love.โ
Robert Fulghum
โThere is no remedy for love but to love more.โ
Henry David Thoreau
โLove is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.โ
Bruce Lee
โGrow old with me! The best is yet to be.โ
Robert Browning
Marriage Sayings
โNever marry the one you can live with, marry the one you cannot live without.โ
Anonymous
โThe first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.โ
Anonymous
โThe secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.โ
Henny Youngman
โTo love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to be loved by the person you love is everything.โ
โThe goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.โ
Robert C. Dodds
โA great marriage is not when the โperfect coupleโ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.โ
Anonymous
โMarriage is like watching the color of leaves in the fall; ever changing and more stunningly beautiful with each passing day.โ
Fawn Weaver
โMarriage is over in an hour, and yet it takes a lifetime to be really married.โ
E. Stanley Jones
โLove insists the loved loves back.โ
Dante Alighieri
โLove me when I least deserve it, because thatโs when I really need it.โ
Swedish proverb
โIf you want an extraordinary marriage, you will have to choose it!โ
Justin Davis
โThe heart of marriage is memories.โ
Bill Cosby
โLove is a four-letter word spelled T-I-M-E.โ
Anonymous
โMarriage is our last, best chance to grow up.โ
These quotes about marriage prove that it takes a great deal of patience, tolerance and understanding to have a great marriage. If you are planning to get married anytime soon or in the future, we hope these quotes will inspire your new life as a husband or wife. Also, if you plan to travel with or without your partner, these 50 Engagement Quotes For The Love Of Your Life will come in handy.
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