70 Inspirational Quotes About Marriage Every Couple Should Read

Marriage remains an incredibly important tradition in all major religions of the world. Fewer and fewer people are choosing to get married in places of worship, but that does not mean that faith is no longer an important factor in marriage.

Many are still inspired by the teachings of the Scriptures of the Faith and seek advice on how to achieve marital roles and harmony. Their community also plays an important role in providing examples of good marriages and helping couples make time to prioritize their relationships.

It’s a fun occasion to bond with your partner, confess your love for each other, and bring two families together. They say the first year of marriage is the hardest, but in a way it’s true!

Even if you’ve been dating for a long time, changing your status may require adjustment. You can also learn how you live together, what each other expects from your marriage, and how you can work out other personal issues together. Whether you’re newlyweds or just want to pack some heartfelt wisdom for happy couples into your wedding cards, these wedding quotes are specially designed for newlyweds.

It’s a fun way to bond with your partner, confess your love for each other, and bring your two families together. They say the first year of marriage is the hardest, but in a way it’s true!

Even if you’ve been together for a long time, you may need to adjust when your status changes. You’ll also learn how to live together, what your partner expects from your marriage, and how other personal issues can be resolved.

Inspirational Quotes About Marriage

1. “Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threaded, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.” – Simone Signoret

2. “A good husband makes a good wife.” – John Florio

3. “A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.” – Michel de Montaigne

4. “I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.” – Carson Daly

5. “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

6. “One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.” – Honore de Balzac

7. “In a happy marriage, it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.” – Gerald Brenan

8. “Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

9. “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” – John Lennon and Paul McCartney

10. “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

11. “Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.” —Franz Schubert

12. “Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.” —Ann Landers

13. “To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.” —Mark Twain

14. “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

Funny Quotes About Marriage

15. “Marriages are like fingerprints; each one is different and each one is beautiful.” – Maggie Reyes

16. “By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates

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

18. “You are the butter to my bread, and the breath to my life.” — Julia Child

19. “The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.” — Henny Youngman

20. “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.” – When Harry Met Sally

21. “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” —Roy Croft

22. “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

23. “Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” —Elizabeth Barrett Browning

24. “You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert

25. “Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we married.” —Tim Mullen

26. “Marriage is like watching the color of leaves in the fall; ever changing and more stunningly beautiful with each passing day.” —Fawn Weaver

27. “The highest happiness on earth is marriage.” —William Lyon Phelps

28. “Marriage is a risk; I think it’s a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.” —Cate Blanchett

29. “A good marriage is one where each partner secretly suspects they got the better deal.” —Unknown

Short Wedding Quotes

30. “I love you more than I hate everything else.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

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

32. 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. – H. Norman Wright

33. Marriage: Love is the reason. Lifelong friendship is the gift. Kindness is the cause. Til” death do us part is the length. – Fawn Weaver

34. You don’t marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as a result of being married to you. -Richard Needham

35. “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

36. 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

37. 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

38. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” — Mingon McLaughlin

39. “Love may be blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.” — Unknown

40. “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” —Elizabeth Gilbert

41. “Marriage is like a graph—it has its ups and downs and as long as things bounce back up again, you’ve got a good marriage. If it heads straight down, then you’ve got some problems!” —Julie Andrews

42. “A simple ‘I love you’ means more than money.” —Frank Sinatra

43. “When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there.” —Julia Roberts

Quotes About Marriage And Family

44.”An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.” — Dame Agatha Christie

45. “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half-shut afterwards.” — Benjamin Franklin

46. “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” — Andre Maurois

47. “A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.” — Brendan Behan

48. “To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.” —Robert Brault

49. “There is nothing 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, The Odyssey

50. “Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I’d have to give it up.”
― Mae West

51. “To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up.”
― Ogden Nash

52. “The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl’s highest calling. I hope I am ready.” ― Nancy E. Turner

53. “The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.” ― Alessandra Torre

54. “A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” —Ruth Bell Graham

55. “Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music, and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.” —Henny Youngman

56. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” —Maya Angelou

57. “Love is a friendship set to music.” —Joseph Campbell

58. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” —Mignon McLaughlin

59. “If I had a flower for every time thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” —Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Life After Marriage Quotes

60. “Not like this. He wanted it to be real.” ― Suzanne Collins