Quotes About Marriage

Here you will find a collection of quotes about marriage that provide words of wisdom, poignant words of praise, and a small dash of humor. Marriage represents the ultimate commitment of love and these marriage quotes cover many facets of this special union.

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. ~ Amy Bloom

My best chosen friend, companion, guide, to walk through life, linked hand-in-hand, two equal, loving friends, true husband and true wife. ~ Sir Charles Gavan Duffy

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. ~ Winston Churchill

You don't need to be on the save wavelength to succeed in marriage. You just need to be able to ride each other's waves. ~ Toni Sciarra Poynter

I love being married. It's so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~ Rita Rudner

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

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge. ~ Bill Cosby

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him. ~ Oscar Wilde

If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag. ~ Zig Ziglar

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

A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. ~ Ogden Nash

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

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

What is a husband? He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can - don't disappoint him. ~ Alan Beck

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws. ~ Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

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

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

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

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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