50 Marriage Quotes to Keep that Loving Relationship Alive

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
― Charlotte Brontë

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

“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“And she’s got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”
― Martha Gellhorn

“The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing – and then marry him.”
― Cher

“No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God!”
― T D Jakes

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

“When in a relationship, a real man doesn’t make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.”
― Steve Maraboli

“The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”
― Bernard Branson

“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.”
― Robert Frost

“Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.”
― Mae West

“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

“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.”
― Groucho Marx

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
― Agatha Christie

“Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.”
― John Wilmot

“A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime, that doesn’t mean she can’t have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones”
― Cher

“Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“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

“Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. ”
― Pearl Buck

“To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.”
― Clint Eastwood

“If you have to convince someone to stay with you then they have already left.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.”
― Katharine Hepburn

“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path.”
― Suzanne Finnamore

“Marriage is about compromise; it’s about doing something for the other person, even when you don’t want to.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.”
― Gillian Flynn

“Marriage is just a piece of paper if it’s not a happy one.”
― Phil Lester

“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.”
― Peter De Vries

“There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.”
― Charles Dickens

“I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold

“Do you think it’s possible to finally decide that you really, truly love someone but not end up marrying him?”
― Robin Jones Gunn

“Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.”
― Erma Bombeck

“A sacrament–like marriage–means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you’re modeling God. And God never gives up.”
― Jodi Picoult

“A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it.”
― Pawan Mishra

“A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one’s own needs to that of the other’s, in the expectation that the other will do the same.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.”
― Anne Taylor Fleming

“The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he’s a baby.”
― Natalie Wood

“Marriage isn’t about Winning – It’s about Lasting”
― Mark Gorman

“Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.”
― Voltaire