80 Marriage quotes that'll inspire you and touch your heart. Here are the best marriage quotes with a heartfelt message to read that will surely inspire you. Marriage is a legal union of two people as partners, culturally recognized matrimony or wedlock between a man and a woman. May these inspirational quotes about marriage help couples on achieving a happy married life. Share these quotes about love and marriage with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.
1. A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other. - Kate Stewart
2. A happy marriage is a selfless journey in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. - Anonymous
3. The more you invest in marriage, the more valuable it becomes. - Amy Grant
4. 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. - Fawn Weaver
5. Love may be blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener. - Anonymous
6. 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. - Steven Gaines
7. The goal of marriage is not to think alike, but to think together. - Robert C. Dodds
8. Marriage does not guarantee you will be together forever, it’s only paper. It takes love, respect, trust, understanding, friendship, and faith in your relationship to make it last. - Anonymous
9. A husband and wife may disagree on many things, but they must absolutely agree on this: to never, ever give up. - Anonymous
10. 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 Fisher
11. The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. - Henny Youngman
12. In marriage, it is never having my own way. It is rather discovering our way. - Gary Chapman
13. Like good wine, marriage gets better with age, once you learn to keep a cork in it. - Gene Perret
14. Marriage is a partnership of two unique people who bring out the very best in each other, and who know that even though they are wonderful as individuals, they are even better together. - Anonymous
15. 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
16. Happiness in marriage is a moment by moment choice. A decision to love, forgive, grow and grow old together. - Fawn Weaver
17. The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes. - Amy Grant
18. Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. - Barnett Brickner
19. Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. - Sydney Smith
20. The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. Mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace. - Fawn Weaver
21. Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it. - Helen Rowland
22. Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story. - Jennifer Smith
23. The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together. - Robert C. Dodds
24. Marriages are like fingerprints; each one is different, and each one is beautiful. - Maggie Reyes
25. 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
26. Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth. - Edwin Louis Cole
27. 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. - Amy Bloom
28. I want the kind of marriage that makes my kids want to get married. - Anonymous
29. A marriage is like a house. When a light bulb goes off you don’t go to find a new house, you fix the light bulb. - Anonymous
30. The beauty of marriage is not always seen from the very beginning but rather as love grows and develops over time. - Fawn Weaver
31. 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
32. A strong marriage requires you to love each other, especially on days when you’re struggling to like each other. - Anonymous
33. I choose you. And I’ll continue choosing you over and over again, in a heartbeat. I’ll always choose you. - Anonymous
34. Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy and satisfied. It's your job to make your marriage happy and satisfying. - Diane Sollee
35. Your marriage will not be defined by the size of your struggles, but by the size of your commitment towards your struggles. - Dave Willis
36. What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. - Leo Tolstoy
37. My heart to you is given, give yours to me! We’ll lock them up in a box, and throw away the key. - Anonymous
38. Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry. - Tom Mullen
39. I believe in marriage, I believe in commitment, I believe in love, togetherness, and family. - Anonymous
40. Marriage is more than finding the right person. It is being the right person. - Anonymous
41. 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
42. Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do. - J.D. Salinger
43. Marriage is like watching the color of leaves in the fall; ever changing and more stunningly beautiful with each passing day. - Fawn Weaver
44. To couples that are meant to be are the ones who go through everything that’s designed to tear them apart and come out stronger than ever before. - Anonymous
45. A great marriage isn't something that just happens; it's something that must be created. - Fawn Weaver
46. Real couples stay faithful. They don’t even think about looking for another because they are too busy looking for ways to show love to each other. - Anonymous
47. A long-lasting marriage is built by two people who believe in and live by the solemn promise they made. - Darlene Schacht
48. A happy marriage is the union of two forgivers. - Ruth Bell Graham
49. 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
50. A great marriage doesn’t happen because of the love you had in the beginning, but how well you continue building that love until the end. - Anonymous
51. A good marriage is a contest of generosity. - Diane Sawyer
52. A great marriage is not when the perfect couple comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. - Dave Meurer
53. Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends. - Harville Hendrix
54. The most successful marriages are those where both husband and wife seek to build the self-esteem of the other. - Anonymous
55. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. - Simone Signoret
56. Marriage is not 50-50. Divorce is 50-50. Marriage has to be 100-100. It isn't dividing everything in half, but giving everything you've got. - Dave Willis
57. The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. - Harold Nicolson
58. You cannot make your marriage all good by yourself! But you can make it better all by yourself. - Anonymous
59. A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. - Anne Taylor Fleming
60. Make your marriage your own. Don’t look at other marriages and wish you had something else. Work to shape your marriage so that it is satisfying for both of you. - Anonymous
61. 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. - Anonymous
62. Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side. - Zig Ziglar
63. When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to begin as soon as possible. - Nora Ephron
64. 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
65. Marriage cannot thrive on the leftover attention. It has to get the best effort. - Ngina Otiende
66. Best friends for life, husband and wife. - Anonymous
67. Marriage is a gift from God to us. The quality of our marriage is our gift to Him. - Anonymous
68. Marriage lets you annoy one special person for the rest of your life. - Anonymous
69. Never marry the one you can live with, marry the one you cannot live without. - Aleatha Romig
70. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. - Mignon McLaughlin
71. Love is a gift of one’s inner most soul to another so both can be whole. - Buddha
72. Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. - Martin Luther
73. Simply put, a marriage is not a marriage without the existence of two individuals who promised to love each other. - Jessica Gardner
74. Marriage is another momentous life change. Choose right, and it might be the most positive decision you ever make. - Patrick Foley
75. When two people become one by way of marriage, it is not only their hearts that are united, but their minds and souls as well. - Julie Donner Anderson
76. Marriage is such a beautiful relationship and a gift from God. It’s God’s design, created between a man and a woman. - Whitney Meade
77. Always strive to give your spouse the very best of yourself; not what’s leftover after you have given your best to everyone else. - Dave Willis
78. 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
79. As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage he made one of two. - Thomas Adams
80. Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. - Josh Billings
1. A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other. - Kate Stewart
2. A happy marriage is a selfless journey in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. - Anonymous
3. The more you invest in marriage, the more valuable it becomes. - Amy Grant
4. 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. - Fawn Weaver
5. Love may be blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener. - Anonymous
6. 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. - Steven Gaines
7. The goal of marriage is not to think alike, but to think together. - Robert C. Dodds
8. Marriage does not guarantee you will be together forever, it’s only paper. It takes love, respect, trust, understanding, friendship, and faith in your relationship to make it last. - Anonymous
9. A husband and wife may disagree on many things, but they must absolutely agree on this: to never, ever give up. - Anonymous
10. 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 Fisher
11. The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. - Henny Youngman
12. In marriage, it is never having my own way. It is rather discovering our way. - Gary Chapman
13. Like good wine, marriage gets better with age, once you learn to keep a cork in it. - Gene Perret
14. Marriage is a partnership of two unique people who bring out the very best in each other, and who know that even though they are wonderful as individuals, they are even better together. - Anonymous
15. 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
16. Happiness in marriage is a moment by moment choice. A decision to love, forgive, grow and grow old together. - Fawn Weaver
17. The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes. - Amy Grant
18. Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. - Barnett Brickner
19. Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. - Sydney Smith
20. The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. Mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace. - Fawn Weaver
21. Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it. - Helen Rowland
22. Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story. - Jennifer Smith
23. The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together. - Robert C. Dodds
24. Marriages are like fingerprints; each one is different, and each one is beautiful. - Maggie Reyes
25. 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
26. Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth. - Edwin Louis Cole
27. 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. - Amy Bloom
28. I want the kind of marriage that makes my kids want to get married. - Anonymous
29. A marriage is like a house. When a light bulb goes off you don’t go to find a new house, you fix the light bulb. - Anonymous
30. The beauty of marriage is not always seen from the very beginning but rather as love grows and develops over time. - Fawn Weaver
31. 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
32. A strong marriage requires you to love each other, especially on days when you’re struggling to like each other. - Anonymous
33. I choose you. And I’ll continue choosing you over and over again, in a heartbeat. I’ll always choose you. - Anonymous
34. Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy and satisfied. It's your job to make your marriage happy and satisfying. - Diane Sollee
35. Your marriage will not be defined by the size of your struggles, but by the size of your commitment towards your struggles. - Dave Willis
36. What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. - Leo Tolstoy
37. My heart to you is given, give yours to me! We’ll lock them up in a box, and throw away the key. - Anonymous
38. Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry. - Tom Mullen
39. I believe in marriage, I believe in commitment, I believe in love, togetherness, and family. - Anonymous
40. Marriage is more than finding the right person. It is being the right person. - Anonymous
41. 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
42. Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do. - J.D. Salinger
43. Marriage is like watching the color of leaves in the fall; ever changing and more stunningly beautiful with each passing day. - Fawn Weaver
44. To couples that are meant to be are the ones who go through everything that’s designed to tear them apart and come out stronger than ever before. - Anonymous
45. A great marriage isn't something that just happens; it's something that must be created. - Fawn Weaver
46. Real couples stay faithful. They don’t even think about looking for another because they are too busy looking for ways to show love to each other. - Anonymous
47. A long-lasting marriage is built by two people who believe in and live by the solemn promise they made. - Darlene Schacht
48. A happy marriage is the union of two forgivers. - Ruth Bell Graham
49. 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
50. A great marriage doesn’t happen because of the love you had in the beginning, but how well you continue building that love until the end. - Anonymous
51. A good marriage is a contest of generosity. - Diane Sawyer
52. A great marriage is not when the perfect couple comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. - Dave Meurer
53. Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends. - Harville Hendrix
54. The most successful marriages are those where both husband and wife seek to build the self-esteem of the other. - Anonymous
55. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. - Simone Signoret
56. Marriage is not 50-50. Divorce is 50-50. Marriage has to be 100-100. It isn't dividing everything in half, but giving everything you've got. - Dave Willis
57. The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. - Harold Nicolson
58. You cannot make your marriage all good by yourself! But you can make it better all by yourself. - Anonymous
59. A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. - Anne Taylor Fleming
60. Make your marriage your own. Don’t look at other marriages and wish you had something else. Work to shape your marriage so that it is satisfying for both of you. - Anonymous
61. 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. - Anonymous
62. Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side. - Zig Ziglar
63. When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to begin as soon as possible. - Nora Ephron
64. 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
65. Marriage cannot thrive on the leftover attention. It has to get the best effort. - Ngina Otiende
66. Best friends for life, husband and wife. - Anonymous
67. Marriage is a gift from God to us. The quality of our marriage is our gift to Him. - Anonymous
68. Marriage lets you annoy one special person for the rest of your life. - Anonymous
69. Never marry the one you can live with, marry the one you cannot live without. - Aleatha Romig
70. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. - Mignon McLaughlin
71. Love is a gift of one’s inner most soul to another so both can be whole. - Buddha
72. Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. - Martin Luther
73. Simply put, a marriage is not a marriage without the existence of two individuals who promised to love each other. - Jessica Gardner
74. Marriage is another momentous life change. Choose right, and it might be the most positive decision you ever make. - Patrick Foley
75. When two people become one by way of marriage, it is not only their hearts that are united, but their minds and souls as well. - Julie Donner Anderson
76. Marriage is such a beautiful relationship and a gift from God. It’s God’s design, created between a man and a woman. - Whitney Meade
77. Always strive to give your spouse the very best of yourself; not what’s leftover after you have given your best to everyone else. - Dave Willis
78. 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
79. As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage he made one of two. - Thomas Adams
80. Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. - Josh Billings