Marriage Quotes

My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher. — Socrates


A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. — Dave Meurer


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


Some women marry for love, some for money, and some for a home. It is not known why men marry.


I first learned the concept of non-violence in my marriage. — Gandhi


Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that’s a real treat. — Joanne Woodward


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

— Friedrich Nietzsche


Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are. — Will Ferrell


A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Robert Quillen


For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked. — Bill Cosby



Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. — Joseph Barth


There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

— Homer


Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. — Henry Ford


There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. — Martin Luther


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


We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops. — Henny Youngman


There’s a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It’s called marriage. — James Holt McGavran


If I get married, I want to be very married. — Audrey Hepburn


Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story. — Jennifer Smith


A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.

— Anne Taylor Fleming


More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. — Doug Larson


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 back in love again. — Judith Viorst


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


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


I got gaps; you got gaps; we fill each other’s gaps. — Rocky


You come to love not by finding the right person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. — Sam Keen


The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together. — Robert C Dodds


When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face. — Goethe


There is no remedy for love but to love more. — Thoreau


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


The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. — Sir Harold George Nicolson


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


Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry. — Tom Mullen


The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

— Theodore Hesburgh


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

— Mignon McLoughlin


No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.