Marriage Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Marriage

Please enjoy these Marriage Quotes from the wise, the romantic, and the famous of the past and present.

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

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My Loved One
You are my ground and you are my rainbow.
You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy.
You are the start of my journeys and always my destination.
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A Great Relationship is the Dance of Two Great Lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My husband melted my heart the day he asked me,
"Can I participate in your wonder?"
In whose wonder do you get to participate today?
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell

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

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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin

The greatest roadblock to a great relationship
is trying to force a partner to change through bribes or threats.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix

For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch

You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I used to tell my husband that,
if he could make me "understand" something,
it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp

The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother

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

Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

A divorce is like an amputation:
you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood

Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy

Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you.
Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires.
Love imposes no demands.
Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole."
Love expands beyond the limits of two people.
Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.
- Deepak Chopra in The Path to Love

Love is often the fruit of marriage.
- Moliere

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
- St.
Jerome

The fewer secrets you have, the happier you will be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.
- Helen Gahagan

There is a time for all things - except marriage,
my dear.
- Thomas Chatterton

Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.
- Sophia Bush

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality,
but must live with a character.
- Peter De Vries

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master,
a mistress, and two slaves, making in all,
two.
- Ambrose Bierce

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him.
After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
- Marilyn Monroe

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".
- Herbert Spencer

Love is moral even without legal marriage,
but marriage is immoral without love.
- Ellen Key

The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.
- Colin Chapman

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

If you want to read about love and marriage,
you've got to buy two separate books.
- Alan King

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
- Michel de Montaigne

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

Marriage is an exercise in torture.
- Frances Conroy

A journey is like marriage.
The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
- John Steinbeck

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again,
so is a bicycle repair kit.
- Billy Connolly

Marriage is the alliance of two people,
one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
- Ogden Nash

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage -
they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings,
the other claps.
- Joe Murray

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
- Yoko Ono

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause,
does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
- Hesiod

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony

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

Daddy was real gentle with kids.
That's why I expected so much out of marriage,
figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.
- Loretta Lynn

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

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows -
marriage does.
- Groucho Marx

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck.
If you live through it, you start looking
very carefully to the right and to the left.
- Jean Kerr

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
- Larry David

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written
in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
- Beverley Nichols

Consider being more acceptive of your partner's behaviors.
It is unlikely that they are intentionally aggravating you.
Almost always, they are just doing what they think they should do.
Try setting aside your own rules for how they should behave,
and adopt a live-and-let-live attitude.
Your relationship will become stronger and happier if you do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
- Thornton Wilder

By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
- Alan King

Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards,
I believe, the American family.
- John Boehner

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
- Ambrose Bierce

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream,
and not, as it too often is, the end.
- Alphonse Karr

Marriage, like money, is still with us;
and,
like money, progressively devalued.
- Robert Graves

Great relationships begin with two people who are each
self confident and who come to each other with the openness
to see and accept the other as a unique and wonderful person.
If there is true love and an alignment of fundamental values,
choose to join your life with your new partner
and vow never to criticize their nature -
the essence that makes them uniquely themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
- George Jessel

Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.
- Linda Fiorentino

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things
that made life to me glorious -
friendship and learning.
- Jane Harrison

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose
as a friend if he were a woman.
- Joseph Joubert

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie