Marriage is a legal union of two people as partners. It is culturally recognized matrimony or wedlock between a man and a woman. Being married has its ups and downs. The key is to communicate more often with your other half to avoid misunderstandings and quarrels in the future. May these inspirational quotes about marriage give you insights that will help you achieve a happy married life.
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. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” – Mignon McLaughlin
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. “Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.” – Ann Landers
9. “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
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10. “My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.” – Winston Churchill
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. “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
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
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15. “Like good wine, marriage gets better with age, once you learn to keep a cork in it.” – Gene Perret
16. “Happiness in marriage is a moment by moment choice. A decision to love, forgive, grow and grow old together.” – Fawn Weaver
17. “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” – Ursula K. LeGuin
18. “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
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
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20. “Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.” – Barnett Brickner
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 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
23. “To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.” – Mark Twain
24. “Marriages are like fingerprints; each one is different, and each one is beautiful.” – Maggie Reyes
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25. “Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.” – Jennifer Smith
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. “There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.” – Martin Luther
30. “The beauty of marriage is not always seen from the very beginning but rather as love grows and develops over time.” – Fawn Weaver
More Quotes about Love and Marriage
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. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
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. “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
38. “Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.” – Tom Mullen
39. “This is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible beings who do not run away from life.” – Paul Tournier
40. “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” – Andre Marois
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. “The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.” – Julia Child
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. “A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.” – Pearl S. Buck
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 fifty-fifty. Divorce is fifty-fifty. Marriage has to be hundred-hundred. 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. “To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.” – Robert Brault
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. “Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning
65. “Marriage cannot thrive on the leftover attention. It has to get the best effort.” – Ngina Otiende
66. “Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
67. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
68. “We have a couple of rules in our relationship. The first rule is that I make her feel like she’s getting everything. The second rule is that I actually do let her have her way in everything. And, so far, it’s working.” – Justin Timberlake
69. “Never marry the one you can live with, marry the one you cannot live without.” – Aleatha Romig
70. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” – Sophocles
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
81. “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
82. “He does tell me every single day of my life I'm beautiful, and I do know a lot of women live without that. And it does matter, someone just telling you that.” – Mary Steenburgen
83. “After a while, you just want to be with the one that makes you laugh.” – Chris Noth
84. “You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.” – Jodi Picoult
85. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.” – Ewan McGregor
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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. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” – Mignon McLaughlin
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. “Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.” – Ann Landers
9. “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. “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
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
16. “Happiness in marriage is a moment by moment choice. A decision to love, forgive, grow and grow old together.” – Fawn Weaver
17. “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” – Ursula K. LeGuin
18. “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
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
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 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
23. “To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.” – Mark Twain
24. “Marriages are like fingerprints; each one is different, and each one is beautiful.” – Maggie Reyes
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. “There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.” – Martin Luther
30. “The beauty of marriage is not always seen from the very beginning but rather as love grows and develops over time.” – Fawn Weaver
More Quotes about Love and Marriage
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. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
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. “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
38. “Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.” – Tom Mullen
39. “This is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible beings who do not run away from life.” – Paul Tournier
40. “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” – Andre Marois
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. “The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.” – Julia Child
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. “A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.” – Pearl S. Buck
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 fifty-fifty. Divorce is fifty-fifty. Marriage has to be hundred-hundred. 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. “To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.” – Robert Brault
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. “Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning
65. “Marriage cannot thrive on the leftover attention. It has to get the best effort.” – Ngina Otiende
66. “Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
67. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
68. “We have a couple of rules in our relationship. The first rule is that I make her feel like she’s getting everything. The second rule is that I actually do let her have her way in everything. And, so far, it’s working.” – Justin Timberlake
69. “Never marry the one you can live with, marry the one you cannot live without.” – Aleatha Romig
70. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” – Sophocles
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
81. “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
82. “He does tell me every single day of my life I'm beautiful, and I do know a lot of women live without that. And it does matter, someone just telling you that.” – Mary Steenburgen
83. “After a while, you just want to be with the one that makes you laugh.” – Chris Noth
84. “You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.” – Jodi Picoult
85. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.” – Ewan McGregor
Share these Happy Marriage Quotes with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.