Marriage is the process by which two people make their relationship public, official, and permanent. It is the joining of two people in a bond that ultimately lasts until death.
Over the course of a relationship that can last as many as seven or eight decades, a lot happens. Personalities change, bodies age, and romantic love waxes and wanes. And no marriage is free of conflict but what enables a couple to endure it is how they handle that conflict.
From William Shakespeare to Albert Einstein and passing by Friedrich Nietzsche, many of famous people in different fields and over the ages have had a lot to say about marriage and marriage anniversaries. Here are the best marriage quotes. Like & share your favorite funny marriage quotes, and who knows… Maybe you’ll find your soulmate relating to these quotes about marriage.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
If I get married, I want to be very married.
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he’s not the man she married?
There is no such thing as a “broken family.” Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.
You make me happier than I ever thought I could be and if you let me I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you feel the same way.
I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing – and then marry him.
To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.
As you get older, you’ve probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You’ll be talking with somebody at a party, and you’ll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can’t remember his or her name. This can be very embarrassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse.
A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ come together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
Love is not something you feel. It is something you do.
Blood of my Blood,” he whispered, “and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter what happens, You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I wilna let ye go.
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.
Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
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.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
I first learned the concept of non-violence in my marriage.
When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
Here’s something else to think about: calling when you say you’re going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can’t lay this one stupid brick down, you ain’t never gonna have a house baby, and it’s cold outside.
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There’s no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.
We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
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.
The rule goes like this: If you kiss someone, then you should marry them and have kids with them. It’s the right thing to do.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
There’s a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It’s called marriage.
An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.
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.
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.
Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip.
As for his secret to staying married: ‘My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me.’
Nice people don’t necessarily fall in love with nice people.
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
My husband and I have never considered divorce… murder sometimes, but never divorce.
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.
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Marriage can wait, education cannot.
This relationship is the vessel wherein is nurtured the life force of both individuals, whereby they create the future of the human race in body and thought.
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
Marriage is a fine institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
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.
I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
I don’t want to be married just to be married. I can’t think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can’t talk to, or worse, someone I can’t be silent with.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s going to be really hard; we’re gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me… everyday.
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
And she’s got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
I love you more than I hate everything else.
The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.
There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won’t, and that’s a wife who can’t cook and will.
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
I got gaps; you got gaps; we fill each other’s gaps.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
You come to love not by finding the right person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
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.
Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
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.
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.
The only way love can last a lifetime is if it’s unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.
When in a relationship, a real man doesn’t make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.
No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God!
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
I didn’t marry you because you were perfect. I didn’t even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn’t a house that protected them; and it wasn’t our love that protected them – it was that promise.
Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.
Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.
In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.