Marriage Sayings! 150 Best Love Quotes and Marriage Sayings
Marriage Quotes and Sayings
“A good marriage is a contest of generosity.” —Diane Sawyer
“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.” —Henny Youngman
“Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.” —Joseph Barth
“Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.” —Harville Hendrix
“A good marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” —Ruth Bell Graham
“The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.” —Amy Grant
“Marriages are like fingerprints; each one is different and each one is beautiful.” —Maggie Reyes
“Marriage is more than finding the right person. It is being the right person.” —Unknown
A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing? She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.” —Henry Youngman
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” —Mignon McLaughlin
“Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.” —Frank Pittman
“A great marriage isn’t something that just happens; it’s something that must be created.” —Fawn Weaver
“The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.” —Robert C. Dodds
“There is no more lovely, friendly, charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.” —Martin Luther
“Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.” —Evelyn Hendrickson
“Like good wine, marriage gets better with age, once you learn to keep a cork in it.” —Gene Perret
“Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.” —Jennifer Smith
“To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the loving cup, whenever you’re wrong admit it; whenever you’re right shut up.”
“Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week.”
“A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.” —Anne Taylor Fleming
“A long-lasting marriage is built by two people who believe in -and live by- the solemn promise they made.” —Darlene Schacht
“Marriage isn’t supposed to make you happy and satisfied. It’s your job to make your marriage happy and satisfying.” —Diane Sollee
“A great marriage is not when the perfect couple comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”
“Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.” —Zig Ziglar
“Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.” —Tom Mullen
“Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.” —Helen Rowland
“The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.” —Harold George Nicolson
“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.” —Simone Signoret
“Marriage is like watching the color of leaves in the fall; ever changing and more stunningly beautiful with each passing day.” —Fawn Weaver
“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.” —Leo Tolstoy
“The beauty of marriage is not always seen from the very beginning but rather as love grows and develops over time.” —Fawn Weaver
“A happy marriage is a selfless journey in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” —George & Yvonne Levy
“After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can’t face each other, but still they stay together.” —Hermant Joshi
“The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. A mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.” —Fawn Weaver
“Marriages, like a garden, take time to grow. But the harvest is rich unto those who patiently and tenderly care for the ground.” —Darlene Schacht
“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.”
“A happy marriage doesn’t mean you have a perfect spouse or a perfect marriage. It simply means you’ve chosen to look beyond the imperfections in both.”
“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
“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.” —Sydney Smith
“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
“Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.”
“The success of marriage comes not in finding the right person, but in the ability of both partners to adjust to the real person they inevitably realize they married.” —John Fischer
“Being in a long marriage is a little bit like that nice cup of coffee every morning – I might have it every day, but I still enjoy it.” —Stephen Gaines
“In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic, a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts, an enabler rather than a reformer.” —Norman Wright and Gary Oliver
“The difference between an ordinary marriage and an extraordinary marriage is in giving just a little extra every day, as often as possible, for as long as we both shall live.” —Fawn Weaver
“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
“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 untill you fall in again.” —Judith Viorst
“Marriage is something you create every day. Marriage will not erase your debt, make your cranky family member nicer, or get you a raise. Things work out because we work at them. Period.” —Maggie Reyes
“The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make on your wedding day, and over and over again and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband.”
“In the enriching of marriage, the big things are the little things. There must be constant appreciation for each other and thoughtful demonstration of gratitude. A couple must encourage and help each other grow. Marriage is a joint quest for the good, the beautiful, and the divine.” —James E. Faust
“A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship — a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.” —Anthony Storr
Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don’t expose it to the elements. You don’t make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.” —F. Burton Howard
Inspiring Marriage Quotes About Love and Relationships
“You are my greatest adventure.” —Love Quote from Up
Love is a friendship set to music.” —Joseph Campbell on Love
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire.” —Bruce Lee on Love
“Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.” —Harville Hendrix on Marriage
“If I get married, I want to be very married.” —Audrey Hepburn on Marriage
“Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favourite.” —Anonymous Quote about Love
“The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.” —William Lyon Phelps on Marriage
“A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems to short.” —Andre Marois on Marriage
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” —Mignon McLaughlin on Marriage
“No one has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” —Zelda Fitzgerald on Love
“Being someone’s first love may be great, but to be their last is beyond perfect.” —Anonymous Love Quote
“Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” —Franklin Jones on Love
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” —Lao Tzu on Love
“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” —Arrigo Boito Quote about Love
“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than good marriage.” —Martin Luther on Marriage
“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.” —Bill Wilson on Love
“Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.” —Anonymous Love Quote
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” —Dr Seuss on Love
“Walking with your hands in mine and mine in yours, that’s exactly where I want to be always.” —Fawn Weaver on Love
“After a while, you just want to be with the one that makes you laugh.” —Love Quote from Sex and the City
“Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.” —Jennifer Smith on Marriage
“Love recognises no barriers, it jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.” —Maya Angelo on Love
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” —Roy Croft on Love
“I fell in love the way you fall asleep, slowly and then all at once.” —Love Quote from The Fault in Our Stars
“Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.” —Tom Mullen on Marriage
“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” —Love Quote from Lord of the Rings
“People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.” —Dr Seuss on Love
“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald on Love
“To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.” —Robert Brault on Love
“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.” —Dave Meurer on Marriage
“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” —Judy Garland on Love
“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.” —Albert Einstein on Love
“The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. A mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.” —Fawn Weaver on 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 on Marriage
“Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.” —Sam Levenson on 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.” —Barbara De Angelis on Marriage
“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” —Love Quote from The History of Love
“Being in a long marriage is a little bit like that nice cup of coffee every morning – I might have it every day, but I still enjoy it.” —Stephen Gaines on Marriage
“When you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” —Love Quote from When Harry Met Sally
“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” —Marriage Quote by Rumi
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” —Love Quote from The Notebook
“You make me happier than I ever thought I could be, and if you let me, I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you feel the same way.” —Love Quote from Friends
“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is.” —Louis de Bernieres on Love
“I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever. I promise to never forget that this is a once in a lifetime love, and to always know in the deepest part of my soul that no matter what challenges might carry us apart, we will always find our way back to each other.” —Love Quote from The Vow
“I vow to help you love life, to always hold you with tenderness and to have the patience that love demands, to speak when words are needed and to share the silence when they are not, to agree to disagree on red velvet cake, and to live within the warmth of your heart and always call it home.” —Love Quote from The Vow