Marriage is a bond built on love, trust, and the promise to stand by each other through life’s ups and downs. Quotes about marriage can offer a glimpse into the beauty and strength that come from a true partnership. Here, you’ll find words that celebrate the commitment and joy of sharing life with someone special.
- “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” — Mignon McLaughlin
- “Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person.” — Sophia Bush
- “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.” — Peter Ustinov
- “Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.” — Boris Pasternak
- “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
- “Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.” — Simone Signoret
- “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” — Andre Maurois
- “Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do.” — Barbara De Angelis
- “Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.” — Harville Hendrix
- “A good marriage is one where each partner secretly suspects they got the better deal.” — Anonymous
- “The great marriages are partnerships. It can’t be a great marriage without being a partnership.” — Helen Mirren
- “The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue.” — Barbara De Angelis
- “Marriage is like a fine wine, if tended properly, it just gets better with age.” — Anonymous
- “Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.” — Kahlil Gibran
- “Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.” — Gloria Steinem
- “Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.” — Jennifer Smith
- “There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Marriage is not just spiritual communion; it is also remembering to take out the trash.” — Joyce Brothers
- “In a great marriage, each person plays a part in keeping love alive.” — Ann Landers
- “Marriage is a journey, and the journey is never-ending.” — Anonymous
- “Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” — Franklin P. Jones
- “When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.” — Joyce Brothers
- “The best marriages are built on teamwork, a mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.” — Fawn Weaver
- “Marriage stands the test of time when two people come together as one, despite their individual differences.” — Daphne Rose Kingma
- “True love stands by each other’s side on good days and stands closer on bad days.” — Unknown
- “Marriage is not about finding someone to live with; it’s about finding someone you can’t live without.” — Rafael Ortiz
- To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.” — Mark Twain
- “The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds—they mature slowly.” — Peter De Vries
- “The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.” — Robert C. Dodds
- “You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry someone you cannot live without.” — Unknown
- “Marriage is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.” — Kahlil Gibran
- “In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” — Mignon McLaughlin
- “Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.” — Franz Schubert
- “Marriage is not 50-50. It’s 100-100.” — Dave Willis
- “Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.” — Samuel Richardson
- “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” — Henry David Thoreau
- “A long-lasting marriage is built by two people who believe in—and live by—the solemn promise they made.” — Darlene Schacht
- “Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.” — Michael Leunig
- “True love is about growing as a couple, learning about each other, and never giving up on each other.” — Unknown
- “Marriage is like watching the color of leaves in the fall; ever-changing and more stunningly beautiful with each passing day.” — Fawn Weaver
- “A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” — Ruth Bell Graham
- “The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.” — Peter De Vries
- “Marriage lets you annoy one special person for the rest of your life.” — Anonymous
- “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” — Henry Ford
- “In a happy marriage, it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.” — Gerald Brenan
- “The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.” — William Lyon Phelps
- “Marriage is the bond between a person who never remembers anniversaries and another who never forgets them.” — Ogden Nash
- “Marriage is a risk; I think it’s a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on it with the same mindset.” — Cate Blanchett
- “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
- “Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.” — Ogden Nash
- “The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.” — Amy Grant
- “The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.” — Toni Morrison
- “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 married.” — John Fischer
- “Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.” — Mae West
- “Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” — Voltaire
- “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott
- “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
- “Marriage is a commitment; it’s a choice to do whatever it takes to make your relationship thrive.” — Brian Tracy
- “Marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” — Ruth Bell Graham
- “Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
