Best Marriage Quotes:

Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.

- Jayne Meadows

topic: Tough, Best Marriage

The best marriage in the world is two servants in love. The worst marriage in the world is two masters in love.

- Jimmy Evans

topic: Two, World, Best Marriage, Two Masters

My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.

- Maeve Binchy

topic: Brother, Married, Best Marriage

Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.

- Cullen Hightower

topic: Best Marriage, Courtship

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

- Simone Signoret

topic: Love, Marriage, Women, Husband To Be, Marriage Advice

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

- Mae West

topic: Love, Marriage, Single, Marrying Him, Great Marriage

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

topic: Love, Funny, Marriage, Humorous Love, Humorous Valentine

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

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

source: Terre des Hommes ch. 8 (1939)

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Marriage And Love Inspirational, Soulmate Love

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Life, Marriage, Wedding, Marriage Humor, Successful Marriage

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Friendship, Relationship, Marriage, Marriage Advice, Marriage Problems

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.

- Judith Viorst

source: Judith Viorst (1987). “Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.”, Fireside

topic: Love, Marriage, Fall, Husband To Be, Marriage Advice

Love 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

topic: Love, Marriage, Wedding, Marriage Advice For Newlyweds, Marriage And Love Inspirational

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

topic: Love, Birthday, Marriage, Marrying, Great Marriage

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Love, Friendship, Marriage, Long Relationship, Marriage Advice

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Marriage, Some People Never Change, Marrying

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Relationship, Marriage, Wedding, Marriage Advice, Marriage And Love Inspirational

Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

- Madeleine de Scudery

topic: Eye, Men, Before Marriage, Marriage Advice For Newlyweds, Marriage Humor

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

- Ogden Nash

source: Ogden Nash, “A Word To Husbands”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Life, Marriage Advice, Marriage Advice For Newlyweds

It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Marriage, Husband, Wife, Marriage Advice, Lasting Marriage

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

- Joseph Barth

topic: Marriage, Growing Up, Lasts, Marriage And Love Inspirational, Marriage Life

As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."

- Jon Bon Jovi

topic: Marriage, Wife, Secret, Marriage Problems, Great Marriage

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

- James Dobson

topic: Love, Relationship, Marriage, Marriage Advice For Newlyweds, Great Marriage

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Love, Marriage, Pregnancy, Getting Married, Love Acceptance

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Love, Friendship, Positive, Tigger, Bff

When 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.

- Nora Ephron

source: Nora Ephron (2011). “When Harry Met Sally. . .”, p.97, Knopf

topic: Love, Marriage, Want, My Girlfriend, Worthy Of Love

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

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Family, Marriage, Funny Love, Marriage Advice, Marriage Advice For Newlyweds

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

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

source: Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)

topic: Marriage, Wedding, Morning, Marriage Advice, Great Marriage

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

- Agatha Christie

source: Attributed in Bennett Cerf, The Life of the Party (1956)

topic: Love, Funny, Birthday, Husband To Be, Marriage Humor

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

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Inspiring, Marriage, Couple, Married Love, Getting Married

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

- Katharine Hepburn

source: Quoted in PeopleWeekly, 11 Oct. 1976

topic: Love, Break Up, Marriage, Sometimes I Wonder, Funny Men

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

- Robert Anderson

topic: Love, Inspirational, Anniversary, Husband To Be, Amputation

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

- Katharine Hepburn

topic: Marriage, Funny Love, Wedding, Marriage Humor, Married Man

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

source: Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

topic: Love, Relationship, Anniversary, Husband Love, Husband To Be

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Love, Marriage, Dance, Marriage Advice, Marriage Anniversary

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

- Ruth Graham

source: Ruth Bell Graham, Gigi Tchividjian (2009). “A Quiet Knowing”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Love, Friendship, Family, Husband To Be, Husband Wife

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

- Peter De Vries

topic: Relationship, Anniversary, Marriage, Marriage Advice, Marriage Advice For Newlyweds

Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me,

- Frank Bruno

topic: Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me, Rock Song, Inspirational Baby, Mother And Daughter, Long Love

Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.

- Jefferson Machamer

topic: Marriage, Thinking, Lessons, Marriage Life, Marriage Love

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.

- James Dobson

topic: Love, Marriage, Eye, Marriage Advice For Newlyweds, Marriage Humor

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.

- Groucho Marx

topic: Love, Marriage, People, Marriage Advice, Marriage Advice For Newlyweds

Marriage, families, all relationships are more a process of learning the dance rather than finding the right dancer

- Paul Pearsall

source: Paul P. Pearsall, Paul Pearsall (1991). “The Power of the Family”, Bantam Books

topic: Marriage, Dancer, Process, Marriage Life, Positive Marriage

My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.

- Joyce Brothers

topic: Marriage, Husband, Divorce, Marriage And Divorce, Marriage Divorce

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Love, Inspirational, Marriage, Along For The Ride, Best Marriage

love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Marriage, Moving, Sea, Marriage Advice, Marriage Toast

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

- Henny Youngman

topic: Love, Marriage, Secret, Husband To Be, Marriage Advice For Newlyweds

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Marriage, Sarcastic, Marriage Is Hard, Married Man

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

- Rumi

topic: Love, Inspirational, Happiness, Meant To Be Together, Marriage And Love Inspirational

I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to BE the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Knowing, Important, Way, Marriage And Love Inspirational, Marriage Life

There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Kiron K. Skinner, Ronald Reagan, Annelise Anderson, Martin Anderson (2004). “Reagan: A Life In Letters”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

topic: Love, Marriage, Wedding, Marriage Advice, Marriage Problems

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

topic: Marriage, Love You, Verbs, Marriage Advice For Newlyweds, Inspirational Marriage

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Husband To Be, Marriage Advice

So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we'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 me... everyday.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Love, Marriage, Forever, Sparking, Really Romantic