Welcome to our collection of Marriage Quotes, where the beauty and complexity of the institution of marriage come to life through the words of famous authors, philosophers, and everyday people. Marriage is a timeless bond that has been celebrated and scrutinized for centuries, and these quotes provide insight, humor, and wisdom about the various facets of this sacred union. Whether you’re seeking inspiration for your wedding vows, looking to add a touch of sentiment to your anniversary card, or simply curious about the diverse perspectives on marriage, you’ll find a treasure trove of quotes on this topic right below. Feel free to copy them, use them in your own creations, or even give them a stylish twist with different fonts and designs to make them uniquely yours. Dive into the world of marriage through the words of others, and may these quotes inspire and resonate with you on your own journey of love and commitment.
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. St. Jerome
Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution. Mae West
For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward. Erma Bombeck
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. Andre Maurois
Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. Benjamin Franklin
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. Jean Giraudoux
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. Franz Schubert
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she’s a householder. Thornton Wilder
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. Charles Caleb Colton
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. Jane Austen
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. John Lyly
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it’s not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long. Amy Grant
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash. Joyce Brothers
I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax? Jackie Kennedy
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. Alexander Pope
Marriage is a great institution. Elizabeth Taylor
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. Iris Murdoch
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too. H. L. Mencken
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. Oscar Wilde
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. Judith Viorst
My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate. Carnie Wilson
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. Isadora Duncan
Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery. Erma Bombeck
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. Sydney Smith
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. Samuel Johnson
There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again. Clint Eastwood
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. Lyndon B. Johnson
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife. Prince Philip
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
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. Benjamin Franklin
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little. Oliver Goldsmith
Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without. James Dobson
When I get married, it’ll be no secret. Elvis Presley
Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage. Hesiod
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother. Sam Levenson
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. Joseph Campbell
When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place. Helen Gahagan
If I get married, I want to be very married. Audrey Hepburn
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. Ambrose Bierce
I married beneath me, all women do. Nancy Astor
One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague. Robert Burton
Marriage – a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. Beverley Nichols
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. Oscar Wilde
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’. Herbert Spencer
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. Billy Connolly
Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and give her a house. Lewis Grizzard
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end. Alphonse Karr
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth. Edwin Louis Cole
For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end. Catherine Zeta-Jones
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner. Red Skelton
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
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers. Eddie Cantor
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. Henny Youngman
Perhaps my problem in marriage – and it is the problem of many women – was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage. Hedy Lamarr
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. Winston Churchill
Daddy was real gentle with kids. That’s why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant. Loretta Lynn
The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they’re too old to do it. Ann Bancroft
I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year. Bette Davis
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. Marilyn Monroe
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. Abraham Lincoln
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife’s spirits. John Gay
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished. Zsa Zsa Gabor
Marriage has made me a lot happier and I’m deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day. Harry Connick, Jr.
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. Peter De Vries
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. Ann Landers
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. John Steinbeck
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. Honore de Balzac
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. Homer
All marriages are happy. It’s the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. Raymond Hull
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. Benjamin Disraeli
Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you’ll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples. Neil Simon
Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn’t even have when you were on your own. Eddie Cantor
Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage – they’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry. Rita Rudner
Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats. Woody Allen
But marriage goes in waves. You’ve got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don’t put the work and the effort into it. You’ve got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall. Anna Benson
A good husband makes a good wife. John Florio
Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house. Jean Kerr
My wife is my soul mate. I can’t imagine being without her. Matt Damon
Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It’s not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. Euripides
Marriage is a gamble, let’s be honest. Yoko Ono
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. Warren Farrell
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. Socrates
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. Jackie Kennedy
Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake. Elbert Hubbard
Husbands are like fires – they go out when they’re left unattended. Cher
It’s tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won’t drink from my glass. Rodney Dangerfield
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. Andre Maurois
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. W. H. Auden
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. Sacha Guitry
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. Martin Luther
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce
There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded. Princess Diana
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. Michel de Montaigne
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. Joseph Joubert
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles. Henry Ward Beecher
