50+ Marriage quotes for all couples
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Love is a many-splendored thing… as well as something that’s been written about for as long as humans have had the ability to put pen to paper. These 50 quotes about marriage will get you in the mood for commitment, and properly show your partner how you feel about them. Share these quotes in Valentine’s Day cards, wedding announcements or thank you cards, or social media captions for photos of you and your beloved.
Marriage quotes for all couples
Whether you’re aiming for longevity, satisfaction, or tax breaks, these happy marriage quotes, long marriage quotes, and quotes for newly married couples should give you a little perspective for your blessed union.
- “If I get married, I want to be very married.” — Audrey Hepburn
- “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” — Mignon McLaughlin
- “The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.” — E. Joseph Cossman
- “To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.” — Franka Potente
- “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
- "You know you are in love when the two of you can go grocery shopping together." — Woody Harrelson
- "My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me." — Winston Churchill
- “Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.” — Will Ferrell
- “What greater thing is there for two human souls then 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 silent, unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?” — George Eliot
- “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, The Lathe of Heaven
- “Let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but not make a bond of love: Let it be rather a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” — Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
- “A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.” — Dave Meurer
- “There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.” — Martin Luther
- “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
- “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” — Andre Marois
- “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
- “The highest happiness on earth is marriage.” — William Lyon Phelps
- “Come, let’s be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.” — Charles Dickens
- “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
- “The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. A mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.” — Fawn Weaver
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Wedding quotes for the big day
It’s easy to get lost in the planning of your big day, so take a minute and read through these wedding quotes for couples on their new journey together. You can also repurpose these words of wisdom for decorating your wedding invitations, messages of congratulations for recently married friends or as captions for photos in a wedding album.
- “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.” — When Harry Met Sally
- “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.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
- "Never marry a man you wouldn’t want to be divorced from." — Nora Ephron
- “The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make — not just on your wedding day, but over and over again — and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.” — Barbara de Angelis
- “The bride and groom — may their joys be as bright as the morning, and their sorrows but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love.” — Minna Thomas Antrim
- “Think not because you are now wed, that all your courtship’s at an end.” — Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza
- “Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.” — Tom Mullen
- “It is such a happiness when good people get together — and they always do.” — Jane Austen
- “Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.” — Robert Browning
- “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 what you are making of me.” — Roy Croft
- “Two hearts in love need no words.” — Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
- “A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.” — Paul Sweeney
Romance and love quotes
Are you deeply in love but not yet ready to take the permanent plunge? Glean inspiration from these quotes on romance and share them with your special person on your anniversary, their birthday, Valentine’s Day, or any other momentous occasions for the two of you.
- “Where there is love, there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “To be fully seen by somebody then and be loved anyhow — this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
- “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
- “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou
- “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott
- “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.” — Alfred Tennyson
- “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu
- "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." — Oprah Winfrey
- “Love is being stupid together.” — Paul Valery
- "We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love." — Robert Fulghum
- "When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again." — Albert Einstein
- “Remember, your Valentine’s card shows you care enough to send the very best, even though you’re too lazy to put it in your own words.” — Melanie White
- “Without Valentine’s Day, February would be… well, January.” — Jim Gaffigan
- “Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.” — Helen Keller
- “We loved a love that was more than love.” — Edgar Allan Poe
- “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.” — Plato
- “Who, being loved, is poor?” — Oscar Wilde
- “What is love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.” — Victor Hugo
- “When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” — Arrigo Boito
- “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” — Henry David Thoreau
- “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” — Sophocles
- “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.” — e.e. cummings
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