Best Marriage Quotes

A heart isn’t something you get. It’s something that’s born.

Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.

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.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

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

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

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.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.

The best marriage in the world is two servants in love. The worst marriage in the world is two masters in love.

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.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip.

Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

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

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.

Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

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

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.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.

My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.

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.

As for his secret to staying married: “My wife tells me that if I ever
decide to leave, she is coming with me.”

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

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

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.

Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.

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.

Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without.

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 in again.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

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

Marriage, families, all relationships are more a process of learning the dance rather than finding the right dancer

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

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

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.

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

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

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.

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

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

The best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There was even a kind of necessary tension, a certain tautness between the partners that gave the marriage strength, like the tautness of a full sail. You went forward on it.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

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 hell of a lot of overlapping.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.