100 Best Marriage Quotes Of All Time

100 Best Marriage Quotes Of All Time

Last updated on January 2nd, 2024 at 12:33 pm

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โ€œHappily ever afterโ€ is every coupleโ€™s 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, youโ€™ll 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

โ€œHappy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.โ€

Franz Schubert

โ€œTo get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.โ€

Mark Twain

โ€œHappy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we married.โ€

Tom Mullen

โ€œYour marriage is a glorious bond but donโ€™t take it as an easy task. It is meant to be worked uponย โ€“ similar to all of your other relationships.โ€

Raymond Eido

โ€œWhat counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.โ€

Leo Tolstoy

โ€œMarriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission.โ€

Meir Soloveichik

โ€œMarriage is a gift from God to us. The quality of our marriage is our gift back to him.โ€

L. Whitney Clayton

โ€œYour 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

โ€œEvery good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If itโ€™s not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.โ€

Anonymous

โ€œA happy marriage is the union of two good forgives.โ€

โ€œOne 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

โ€œMarriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.โ€

Jennifer Smith

โ€œMarriage is a huge investment: of time, of energy and of emotion. Protect and keep contributing to your investment.โ€

Karen Gordon

โ€œA happy marriage doesnโ€™t mean you have a perfect spouse or a perfect marriage. It simply means youโ€™ve chosen to look beyond the imperfections in both.โ€

Fawn Weaver

โ€œA perfect happy marriage is simply two imperfect people loving each other and refusing to give up on each other no matter what.โ€

Anonymous

โ€œA good marriage is where both people feel like theyโ€™re getting the better end of the deal.โ€

Anne Lamott

โ€œA successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.โ€

Mignon McLaughlin

โ€œThere is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.โ€

Martin Luther

โ€œWhen a marriage works, nothing on Earth can take its place.โ€

Helen Gahagan Douglas

โ€œWhen 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€

โ€œIf there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.โ€

Michel de Montaigne

โ€œSimply 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

โ€œI love being married. Itโ€™s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.โ€

Rita Rudner

โ€œWhen you see a married couple walking down the street, the one thatโ€™s a few steps ahead is the one thatโ€™s mad.โ€

Helen Rowland

โ€œBefore you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.โ€

Will Ferrell

โ€œSpend a few minutes a day really listening to your spouse. No matter how stupid his problems sound to you.โ€

Megan Mullally

โ€œI married for love, but the obvious side benefit of having someone around to find my glasses cannot be ignored.โ€

Cameron Esposito

โ€œBecause I always say, if youโ€™re married for 50 years, and 10 of them are horrible, youโ€™re doing really good!โ€

Michelle Obama

โ€œAfter about 15 years I finally figured out that sheโ€™s always right. So surprisingly we just stopped fighting after that.โ€

Barack Obama

โ€œBy 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€

โ€œThe best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps theyโ€™re too old to do it.โ€

Anne Bancroft

โ€œLove, gratitude, compassion, because sometimes every man or every woman will drive their partner crazy.โ€

Goldie Hawn

โ€œHusband secretly lowers the thermostat and I secretly turn it back on. We both vehemently deny touching it. Marriage is fun.โ€

Stephanie Ortiz

โ€œYou know there is a name for people who are always wrong about everything all the timeโ€ฆ Husband!โ€

Bill Maher

โ€œMake sure you have date night even if itโ€™s once in a blue moon because most of the time youโ€™re just too tired and youโ€™d actually prefer to sleep.โ€

Chris Hemsworth

โ€œAfter about 20 years of marriage, Iโ€™m finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.โ€

Mel Gibson

โ€œMarriage lets you annoy one special person for the rest of your life.โ€

Anonymous

โ€œMarriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.โ€

Joyce Brothers

โ€œMy most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.โ€

Winston Churchill

โ€œWe were married for better or worse. I couldnโ€™t have done better and she couldnโ€™t have done worse.โ€

โ€œAn archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.โ€

Agatha Christie

โ€œMarriage is an alliance entered into by a man who canโ€™t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who canโ€™t sleep with the window open.โ€

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage Advice Quotes

โ€œMarriage is not a noun; itโ€™s a verb. It isnโ€™t something you get. Itโ€™s something you do. Itโ€™s the way you love your partner every day.โ€

Barbara De Angelis

โ€œMarriage 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

โ€œMarriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.โ€

Susan B. Anthony

โ€œIt is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.โ€

Friedrich Nietzsche

โ€œA great marriage isnโ€™t something that just happens; itโ€™s something that must be created.โ€

Fawn Weaver

โ€œMarriage is like music. Both are playing different instruments but as long as theyโ€™re playing from the same sheet, they can create something beautiful.โ€

Anonymous

โ€œLaughter is the best medicine. Choose the person that will be your โ€œdoctorโ€ for life.โ€

Anonymous

โ€œTo keep your marriage brimming, whenever you are wrong to admit it, and whenever youโ€™re right shut up.โ€

โ€œA great marriage is not when the โ€˜perfect coupleโ€™ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.โ€

Dave Meurer

โ€œA great marriage is a contest of generosity.โ€

Diane Sawyer

โ€œThe 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

โ€œThe real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. Itโ€™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.โ€

Barbara De Angelis

โ€œWhen 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

โ€œLove has nothing to do with what you are expecting to getโ€“only with what you are expecting to giveโ€“which is everything.โ€

Katharine Hepburn

โ€œA marriage doesnโ€™t have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.โ€

Jessica Simpson

โ€œHolding hands is a promise to one another that, for just a moment, the two of you donโ€™t have to face the world alone.โ€

Anonymous

โ€œEnjoy 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

โ€œLet the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.โ€

Husband and Wife Quotes

โ€œA 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

โ€œI got gaps; you got gaps; we fill each otherโ€™s gapsโ€ฆLove 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 thatโ€™s love, even if it doesnโ€™t seem very exciting.โ€

Sylvester Stallone

โ€œHusband and wife relationships are like the relationship of Tom and Jerry. Though they are teasing and fighting, but canโ€™t live without each other.โ€

Anonymous

โ€œHusbands, 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

โ€œA good husband makes a good wife.โ€

Anonymous

โ€œAny home can be a castle when the king and queen are in love.โ€

Anonymous

โ€œAs 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 

โ€œA husband and a wife see each other at their worst and choose to love each other anyway.โ€

Anonymous

โ€œAย good husband wipes her tears, but a great husband listens to the story of why sheโ€™s crying.โ€

Anonymous

โ€œDonโ€™t ever stop dating your wife and donโ€™t ever stop flirting with your husband.โ€

โ€œWho makes me feel more home than my house? My spouse.โ€

Anonymous

โ€œA husband and wife may disagree on many things but they must absolutely agree on this: to never, ever give up.โ€

Anonymous

โ€œI love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.โ€

Roy Croft

โ€œThere is no such cozy combination as man and wife.โ€

ย Menander

โ€œIn 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

โ€œDonโ€™t 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

โ€œOne of the nicest things you can say to your spouse, โ€œIf I had it to do over again, Iโ€™d choose you. Again.โ€

Anonymous

Marriage Inspiration Quotes

โ€œSo itโ€™s not gonna be easy. Itโ€™s going to be really hard; weโ€™re 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 meโ€ฆ everyday.โ€

Nicholas Sparks

โ€œThe secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls.โ€

Bruce Forsyth

โ€œA strong marriage requires two people who choose to love each other even on those days when they struggle to like each other.โ€

โ€œLove is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.โ€

Boris Pasternak

โ€œLove recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.โ€

Maya Angelou

โ€œWeโ€™re 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 weirdnessโ€“and call it loveโ€“true love.โ€

Robert Fulghum

โ€œThere is no remedy for love but to love more.โ€

Henry David Thoreau

โ€œLove 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

โ€œGrow old with me! The best is yet to be.โ€

Robert Browning

Marriage Sayings

โ€œNever marry the one you can live with, marry the one you cannot live without.โ€

Anonymous

โ€œThe first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.โ€

Anonymous

โ€œThe secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.โ€

Henny Youngman

โ€œTo love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to be loved by the person you love is everything.โ€

โ€œThe goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.โ€

Robert C. Dodds

โ€œA great marriage is not when the โ€˜perfect coupleโ€™ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.โ€

Anonymous

โ€œMarriage is like watching the color of leaves in the fall; ever changing and more stunningly beautiful with each passing day.โ€

Fawn Weaver

โ€œMarriage is over in an hour, and yet it takes a lifetime to be really married.โ€

E. Stanley Jones

โ€œLove insists the loved loves back.โ€

Dante Alighieri

โ€œLove me when I least deserve it, because thatโ€™s when I really need it.โ€

Swedish proverb

โ€œIf you want an extraordinary marriage, you will have to choose it!โ€

Justin Davis

โ€œThe heart of marriage is memories.โ€

Bill Cosby

โ€œLove is a four-letter word spelled T-I-M-E.โ€

Anonymous

โ€œMarriage 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.

Naveen Kumar is a writer and has a thing for collecting quotes and sharing them with people. Naveen is a space enthusiast. When he is not spreading good vibes or motivating people through quotes, you can find him sipping coffee while reading classic literature or on a long road drive.

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