160 Marriage Quotes for Couples

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.

There are few things in life more beautiful than a couple in love and a marriage in full bloom.

A marriage doesn’t have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.

When a marriage works, nothing on Earth can take its place.

A marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s the way you love your partner everyday.

The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

There are only two people who can create the marriage of my dreams: my spouse and me.

A happy marriage is the world’s best bargain.

The most important marriage skill is listening to your partner in a way that they can’t possibly doubt that you love them.

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.

Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.

Marriage makes you vulnerable and strong. It brings out the best and worst in you and then it changes you in ways you could have never expected. For the better.

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity.

In every house of marriage there’s room for an interpreter.

When my husband holds me in his arms it makes me feel -even if just for those moments- that all else is well in the world.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If we are happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.

Come, let’s be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are always fond of, to talk to and sit with.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads—hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.

The path to marital bliss is to begin each day with a kiss.

Marriage is meant to keep people together, not just when things are good, but particularly when they are not. That’s why we take marriage vows, not wishes.

Don’t let doubt convince you that your marriage is not worth fighting for.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

The great marriages are partnerships. It can’t be a great marriage without being a partnership.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.

More marriages might survive if the partners realize that sometimes, the better comes after the worse.

The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.

Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

You come to love not by finding the right person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

Marriage is a commitment- a decision to do, all through life, that which will express your love for one’s spouse.

Marriages are like fingerprints; each one is different and each one is beautiful.

Marriage: Love is the reason. Lifelong friendship is the gift. Kindness is the cause. Til’ death do us part is the length.

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.

Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting.

You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.

Marriage is a gift of love you give to your spouse every day, with a never-ending promise that you’ll walk side by side.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

Happy marriages are built on dreaming together.

We’ve been married for years…and I have learned a long time ago that the only people who count in any marriage are the two who are in it.

Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society’s map. What others don’t know about it is what makes it yours.

People who look to marriage to make them happy make a fundamental mistake. It is your own happiness that you bring into your marriage that makes it so deliciously wonderful.

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.

I think a man and a woman should choose each other for life, for the simple reason that a long life with all its accidents is barely enough time for a man and a woman to understand each other and. . . to understand – is to love.

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you’d have a lot of overlap.

In the enriching of marriage, the big things are the little things. There must be constant appreciation for each other and thoughtful demonstration of gratitude. A couple must encourage and help each other grow. Marriage is a joint quest for the good, the beautiful, and the divine.

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 is a treat.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Marriage is our society’s most pro-child institution. If you want kids to do well, then you want marriage to do well.

The most important thing in a good marriage is mutual respect.

Marriages, like a garden, take time to grow. But the harvest is rich unto those who patiently and tenderly care for the ground.

Happiness in marriage is a moment by moment choice. A decision to love, forgive, grow and grow old together.

Marriage is not a bed of roses but it has its beautiful roses, neither is it a walk in the park, but you can have a memorable walk.

A good marriage is one that allows for change and growth in individuals and in the way they express their love.

Marriage is the highest happiness on earth.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest – never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that’s ever happened to me.

Marriage, like infinity, offers no limit to your happiness.

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, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don’t find very often, then that is what love is all about.

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!

A great marriage is not a destination, it’s a journey that never ends.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

When I feel the support that I have from him, I feel invincible. There’s someone behind you on your good days and someone in front of you on your bad days.

When we got married, I told my wife ‘If you leave me, I’m going with you.’ And she never did.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn’t even have when you were on your own.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Why does a woman work years to change a man, then complain he’s not the man she married?

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.

Marriage is like a game of chess, except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will end in checkmate.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks: It looks easy until you try it.

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

Nеvеr gеt mаrrіеd іn соllеgе; іt’ѕ hаrd tо gеt а ѕtаrt іf а рrоѕресtіvе еmрlоуеr fіndѕ уоu’vе аlrеаdу mаdе оnе mіѕtаkе.

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they’re too old to do it.

I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.

Mеn mаrrу wоmеn wіth thе hоре thеу wіll nеvеr сhаngе. Wоmеn mаrrу mеn wіth thе hоре thеу wіll сhаngе. Invariably, thеу аrе bоth dіѕарроіntеd.

A good marriage is good for you. That isn’t just a platitude. Mounting research shows that it is the literal truth. When your marriage is healthy, your body and mind are healthier.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

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.

Don’t ever confuse a great marriage with a perfect one. A great marriage is attained through daily effort, love and investment of time. A perfect marriage doesn’t exist because it involves the union of two imperfect people.

To keep the fire burning brightly there’s one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart – about a finger’s breadth – for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule.

There is nothing more admirable than two people who see eye-to-eye keeping house as man and wife, confounding their enemies, and delighting their friends.

I hear people say that ‘falling in love is a mistake’ because that means you can simply fall out of love. When it comes to marriage, it just means that you have the benefit of falling in love all over again each and every day.

It’s true what they say — all the good men are married. But it’s marriage that makes them good.

Like a soft, deep layer of mulch, transparency in your marriage will keep most weed seeds dormant and unable to sprout.

A successful marriage isn’t the union of two perfect people. It’s that of two imperfect people who have learned the value of forgiveness and grace.

Marriage is sharing life with your best friend, enjoying the journey along the way and arriving at every destination together.

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me.

Marriage is getting to have a sleepover with your best friend every night of the week.

Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.

Mаrrіаgе – а bооk оf whісh thе fіrѕt сhарtеr іѕ wrіttеn іn роеtrу аnd thе rеmаіnіng сhарtеrѕ іn рrоѕе.

A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

A strong marriage requires two people who choose to love each other even on those days when they struggle to like each other.

The health of your marriage tomorrow will be determined by the decisions you make today.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

A happy marriage is about three things: memories of togetherness, the forgiveness of mistakes and a promise to never give up on each other.

Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You don’t make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.

Mаrrіаgе іѕ аn аttеmрt tо ѕоlvе рrоblеmѕ tоgеthеr whісh уоu dіdn’t еvеn hаvе whеn уоu wеrе on уоur оwn.

Mаrrіаgе hаѕ nо guаrаntееѕ. If thаt’ѕ whаt уоu’rе lооkіng for, gо lіvе wіth а саr bаttеrу.

A good marriage isn’t something you find; it’s something you make and you have to keep on making it.

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.

Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.

Show me a man who is smiling from ear-to-ear and living a beautiful life, and I’ll show you a man who is grateful for what he has and utterly in love with his wife.

Love doesn’t consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.

So many people spend far too much time focused on the wedding day instead of the actual marriage itself.

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn’t marry me.

A great marriage is a contest of generosity.

A happy marriage is a union of two forgivers.

You’ll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.

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.

Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he’ll fall asleep before you finish saying it.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that’s a few steps ahead is the one that’s mad.

Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up.

That’s my prescription for a happy marriage – marry someone who doesn’t do anything similar to what you do.

At every party there are two kinds of people … those who want to go home and those who don’t. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

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.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.

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

I love your feet because they have wandered over the earth and through the wind and water until they brought you to me.

It is a treasure that is outshined by what it means … eternal romance.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

The highest happiness on earth is marriage.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is.

Unto us all our days are love’s anniversaries, each one in turn hath ripen’d something of our happiness.

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for that you are making of me.

Never is true love blind, but rather brings an added light.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you directly without problems or pride: I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love, except in this form in which I am not nor are you, so close that your hand upon my chest is mine, so close that your eyes close with my dreams.

Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly.

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.

Thankful for my amazing husband. Grateful for our loving family. Fortunate to be given the gift of today and the ability to choose love with every breath.

There is nothing better than feeling completely content in life regardless of what life throws at you because your marriage is rock solid.

Always strive to give your spouse the very best of yourself; not what’s leftover after you have given your best to everyone else.

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.

The greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Being married is like having a color television set. You never want to go back to black and white.

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.

Your gift to me is uninsurable. No appraiser can put a value on it… It’s like fruit of the month or a lifetime subscription – a perpetual-motion happiness machine. It starts off fresh and brand new every day, shining up my whole world.

A great spouse loves you exactly the way you are. An extraordinary spouse helps you grow; inspires you to be, do and give your very best.

To know him fully, to love him unconditionally, to respect him always, to forgive him often, to embrace him closely, this is the gift of marriage.

There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.

It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel – they get to know each other better.

A strong marriage rarely has two strong people at the same time. It is a husband and wife who take turns being strong for each other in the moments when the other feels weak.