If you’re married, regardless of how long you’ve been together or if you’ve just got hitched, you probably already know by now that marriage is not easy. It’s definitely not all about happiness and love. It’s not always a happy ever after either. Marriage is full of ups and downs.
However, there are tons of reasons why people want to marry someone they love. Some of the reasons are because marriage has helped them grow, it has eliminated loneliness, it builds character such as loyalty and respect, and most importantly, it has helped them find their purpose in this world. Marriage may not be easy but it sure does make life more meaningful and worth it.
If you’re looking for the best marriage and most special quotes right now then you’re in the right place. We compiled these marriage quotes to let you know how important marriage is and how other people are able to live through it every day.
Marriage Quotes
1. Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash. – Joyce Brothers
2. A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. – Pearl S. Buck
3. The great marriages are partnerships. It can’t be a great marriage without being a partnership. – Helen Mirren
4. 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. – Iyanla Vanzant
5. Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. – Susan B. Anthony
6. But marriage goes in waves. You’ve got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don’t put the work and the effort into it. You’ve got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall. – Anna Benson
7. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. – Mignon McLaughlin
8. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. – Friedrich Nietzsche
9. 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. – Sheri L. Dew
10. 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. – Carson Daly
11. Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person. – Sophia Bush
12. A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. – Andre Maurois
13. Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. – Abraham Lincoln
14. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship. – Marilyn Monroe
15. May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise. – Rumi
16. Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage. – Zig Ziglar
17. Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. – Voltaire
18. 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. – Socrates
19. In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that’s ever happened to me. – Caroline Kennedy
20. Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without. – James Dobson
21. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. – Boris Pasternak
22. 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. – Nick Cave
23. The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. – Henny Youngman
24. 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. – Bruce Forsyth
25. It’s so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase ‘quality time’ means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out. – Joanna Lumley
26. Marriage is the most natural state of man, and the state in which you will find solid happiness. – Benjamin Franklin
27. 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
28. To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up. – Ogden Nash
29. I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. – Rita Rudner
30. If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother. – Sam Levenson
31. Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing. – Robert Kiyosaki
32. I don’t care how handsome or fabulous or funny the groom is, or how sweet and accommodating the bride, or vice versa. Marriage is hard. – Jenna McCarthy
33. Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. – Ellen Key
34. 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. – George Bernard Shaw
35. Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn’t even have when you were on your own. – Eddie Cantor
36. 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. – Benjamin Spock
37. The romantic person instinctively sees marriage in terms of emotions, but what a couple actually gets up to together over a lifetime has much more in common with the workings of a small business. They must draw up work rosters, clean, chauffeur, cook, fix, throw away, mind, hire, fire, reconcile, and budget. – Alain de Botton
38. I say to my children, the reason that marriage and having children is so important, is that it stops you thinking about yourself. The way to happiness is to give yourself to others and to think of others before you think of yourself. – Terry Wogan
39. I still believe in love. I believe in marriage. – Usher
40. Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. – Charles Caleb Colton
41. My wife is my soulmate. I can’t imagine being without her. – Matt Damon
42. 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. – Ann Landers
43. Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? – Groucho Marx
44. Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It’s all about who you pick; in that first moment, did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who’s more interested in being married than in getting married. – Rob Lowe
45. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. – Andre Maurois
46. 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. – Jacques Pepin
47. A marriage doesn’t have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other. – Jessica Simpson
48. When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. – Joseph Campbell
49. 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. – Friedrich Nietzsche
50. Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage. – Jimmy Dean
51. Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. – Leonardo da Vinci
52. The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. – Jackie Kennedy
53. A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished. – Zsa Zsa Gabor
54. When I’m weak, you can be strong; when I’m strong, you can be weak. That’s what I believe marriage is. – Gisele Bundchen
55. Marriage has made me a lot happier and I’m deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day. – Harry Connick, Jr.
56. Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
57. Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred. – William O. Douglas
58. Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
59. 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. – Enid Bagnold
60. You can’t have a happy family if you don’t have a happy marriage. – Jeremy Sisto
61. A lasting relationship isn’t about marriage. It’s about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work. – Goldie Hawn
62. It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it. – Myles Munroe
63. The institution of marriage works better when there’s a spiritual connection. If you’re marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective. – A. R. Rahman
64. Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. – Ann Landers
65. Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
66. Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. – Ambrose Bierce
67. They say marriage will change you but it didn’t change me. Being in love changed me. – R. Kelly
68. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. – Benjamin Franklin
69. We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations – we’re doing everything we can to keep our marriage together. – Rodney Dangerfield
70. I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends – my male friends in particular. And I started wondering if my wife, who was certainly my best friend, supplanted those relationships. – Matthew Weiner
71. Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well. – Anita Shreve
72. In the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality. – Tsai Ing-wen
73. If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. – Michel de Montaigne
74. Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done. – Burt Reynolds
75. Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. – Billy Connolly
76. Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission. – Meir Soloveichik
77. Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage. – Drew Barrymore
78. If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There’s plenty of time for that after marriage. – Zsa Zsa Gabor
79. Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house. – Jean Kerr
80. In a happy marriage, it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. – Gerald Brenan
81. If a relationship is going wrong, if a marriage is going wrong, the answer cannot simply be to say, ‘You can’t afford to break up because you are going to lose the house.’ The answer has to be only one thing, which is ‘I love you.’ – Rory Stewart
82. Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack. – Todd Tiahrt
83. 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. – William Penn
84. Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. – Benjamin Franklin
85. So many people prefer to live in drama because it’s comfortable. It’s like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship – it’s actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect. – Ellen DeGeneres
86. If I get married, I want to be very married. – Audrey Hepburn
87. It’s tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won’t drink from my glass. – Rodney Dangerfield
88. For my parents’ generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It’s about creating family; it’s about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a ‘we’ culture. It’s a communal culture where you do what’s best for the community you procreate. – Aasif Mandvi
89. Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation. – Abraham Maslow
90. The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. – Oscar Wilde
91. Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings and lawyers. – Richard Pryor
92. I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage. – William Shatner
93. Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it. – Helen Rowland
94. Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners. – Rowan Williams
95. The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place. – Sacha Guitry
96. Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. – Jane Austen
97. Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth. – Gary Vaynerchuk
98. I think men are mainly unfaithful because as they get older, they feel the urge to prove to themselves that they are still attractive. They need proof from outside the marriage. It’s really sad. It’s all about them. It’s not about their wives at all. – Pattie Boyd
99. Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten. – Dick Gregory
100. Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die. – Johnny Carso
101. Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won’t even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. – Helen Rowland
102. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. – Katharine Hepburn
103. Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It’s harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next. – Pink
104. Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other’s faults. – Richard Armour
105. In retrospect, I’m grateful for the break-up of my marriage because it forced me to deal with all the buried issues I probably wouldn’t have otherwise faced. I’m a better, kinder, happier person today because of the spiritual and emotional growth I’ve experienced. – Alana Stewart
106. 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. – Julia Child
107. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. – Simone Signoret
108. 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. – Barbara De Angelis
109. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. – Honore de Balzac
110. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. – Michel de Montaigne
111. There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. – Martin Luther
112. Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family, a domestic church. – Pope John Paul II
113. 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. – Henny Youngman
114. 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. – Barbara De Angelis
115. Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. – St. Jerome
116. As you are not yet married, and as marriage is the fundamental state of life as well as the unity of the commonwealth, make up your mind whether you are called to this state. If you make up your mind to marry, do not marry merely a good wife: marry a good mother to your children. – Vincent McNabb
117. Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce. – P. J. O’Rourke
118. I’m so wrapped up in my work that it’s often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this. – Jim Carrey
119. There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you’re dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That’s a normal marriage. – Phil McGraw
120. My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate. – Carnie Wilson
121. One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that’s a real common mistake that we make. – Max Lucado
122. 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. – Cate Blanchett
123. Righteous marriage is a commandment and an essential step in the process of creating a loving family relationship that can be perpetuated beyond the grave. – David A. Bednar
124. With marriage and fatherhood, I’ve finally found two fixed points in my life. They’ve taught me patience. They’ve also taught me that I don’t need to feel guilty about being happy. My emotional seasons are less extreme. – Pete Wentz
125. Marriage is a gamble, let’s be honest. – Yoko Ono
126. It’s lovely being a parent and being in a strong marriage with somebody who is your best friend. – Johnny Vegas
127. Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth. – Edwin Louis Cole
128. There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again. – Clint Eastwood
129. 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. – Amy Grant
benojir says
Nice collection. Here is another quote about marriage/relationship.
“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”- Benjamin Franklin
MERIAM says
Marriage is the institution of GOD .Husband and wife should be able to compliment each other.