170 Beautiful Marriage Quotes For Any Occasion

Marriage has its ups and downs, adventures, and amazing experiences with the person you love. And if you want to remember a special occasion with your partner, you might be searching for the right word to express your feelings.

So, whether you're looking for a quote to include in a special birthday photo book gift, phrases to include in your wedding vows, or just ideas on what to write in an anniversary letter, we've got you covered.

Look through my selection of 170 marriage quotes below to find the ideal approach to honoring your partner on any given occasion.

Quotes About Love And Marriage

These quotes highlight how love holds a strong marriage together. If you like these quotes, you might also like our wedding quotes.

Never marry the one you can live with, marry the one you cannot live without.

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

A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

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

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person.

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.

If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up, it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. It is about appreciation.

Short Marriage Quotes

These short marriage quotes are all you'll ever need to make your partner happy. *winks*

Where there is love there is life.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Who, being loved, is poor?

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.

Love those who love you.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.

The highest happiness on earth is marriage.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Love insists the loved loves back.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Ah me! love cannot be cured by herbs.

One is very crazy when in love.

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Funny Marriage Quotes

A funny quip about married life can sometimes be all you need to brighten your day. Read them aloud for a good laugh, or put them on a new photo mug to brighten up your mornings.

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

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

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.

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

Marriage lets you annoy one special person for the rest of your life.

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.

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

Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are

Being a good husband is like being a standup comic. You need 10 years before you can call yourself a beginner.

After about 15 years I finally figured out that she's always right. So surprisingly we just stopped fighting after that.

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they’re too old to do it.

Love, gratitude, compassion, because sometimes every man or every woman will drive their partner crazy.

Only married people can understand how you can be miserable and happy at the same time.

We were married for better or worse. I couldn’t have done better and she couldn’t have done worse.

Marriage is like a tense, unfunny, version of ‘Everybody Loves Raymond.’ Only it doesn't last 22. It lasts forever.

Just found out the wife is writing a book about our honeymoon, called 50 Shades of Just O.K.

Husbands are like wine, they take a long time to mature.

Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?

She's your lobster. Come on, you guys. It's a known fact that lobsters fall in love and mate for life. You can actually see old lobster couples, walking around their tank, you know, holding claws.

Inspirational Quotes About Marriage

These inspirational marriage quotes are ideal for new canvas art for your house or a thoughtful anniversary card.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

I have a best friend as a husband, and he is my number one supporter. He’s a family man, and he’s always giving back to God. That is what makes him a beautiful man. We’re not perfect by any means, but that makes us beautiful as well. We’re not afraid to say we’re not perfect. We have our disagreements, but that comes along with marriage.

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.

The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don’t find very often, then that is what love is all about.

You don’t love someone because they’re perfect; you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.

True love stands by each other’s side on good days and stands closer on bad days.

A marriage doesn’t have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

If all else perished and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

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Positive Marriage Quotes

Check out these happy and positive marriage quotes by Harville Hendrix, Fawn Weaver, Maggie Reyes, Robert Brault, and countless more if you're happily married or wish to be.

Marriages are like fingerprints; each one is different and each one is beautiful.

Happily ever after is not a fairy tale. It’s a choice.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Marriage: Love is the reason. Lifelong friendship is the gift. Kindness is the cause. Til’ death do us part is the length.

Being in a long marriage is a little bit like that nice cup of coffee every morning – I might have it every day, but I still enjoy it.

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn’t marry me.

The best time to love with your whole heart is always now, in this moment, because no breath beyond the current is promised.

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

The difference between an ordinary marriage and an extraordinary marriage is in giving just a little ‘extra’ every day, as often as possible, for as long as we both shall live.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.

The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. A mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.

A fool in love makes no sense to me. I only think you are a fool if you do not love.

If you’re not happy with where you are and what you’ve got, you won’t be happy with where you go or what you get. Happiness is a choice for today.

A long-lasting marriage is built by two people who believe in -and live by- the solemn promise they made.

Love is the greatest gift when given. It is the highest honor when received.

The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.

Marriage Quotes From The Bible

According to the Bible, marriage is a beautiful union between a man and a woman that God established.

There was never a case of divorce in the Bible in which God was the author. We can therefore safely conclude that God does not intend for marriages to end in divorce.

On that note, we have compiled a list of biblical marriage quotes that will help your marriage stand the test of time.

Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

As long as we love one another, God will live in us, and his love will be complete in us.

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together. She may be weaker than you are, but she is your equal partner in God's gift of new life. Treat her as you should so your prayers will not be hindered.

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone?

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

Through love serve one another.

God is love, and whoever dwells in love dwells in God.

Do not be afraid—I am with you! I am your God—let nothing terrify you! I will make you strong and help you; I will protect you and save you.

Love yesterday, today and forever.

Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

So she became his wife, and he loved her.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.

Husband And Wife Quotes

These husband and wife quotes are ideal for any occasion, including anniversaries. Save them for a rainy day or incorporate them into a meaningful message. If you like these, you might also like our collection of anniversary quotes.

The great marriages are partnerships. It can’t be a great marriage without being a partnership.

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that’s ever happened to me.

Husband and wife relationships are like the relationship of Tom and Jerry. Though they are teasing and fighting, but can’t live without each other.

My husband has made me laugh. Wiped my tears. Hugged me tight. Watched me succeed. Seen me fail. Kept me strong. My husband is a promise that I will have a friend forever.

My husband is my best friend, my greatest support, my biggest comfort, my strongest motivation, my truest smile, my deepest love, my favorite, my forever. He has me. Entirely.

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.

A husband and wife may disagree on many things but they must absolutely agree on this: to never, ever give up.

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

Think not because you are now wed, that all your courtship’s at an end.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

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Traditional Marriage Quotes

Another way to convey genuine passion or significant expression on your wedding day is to share traditional wedding quotes with your guests.

When your wedding poems, sayings, quotes, and prayers mirror your values, relationship, and wedding style, they become more meaningful.

Choose a traditional wedding quote that resonates with you.

If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.

Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

Traditional marriage in the platform is the essential building block to our civilization.

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.

Being a housewife, makes women sick.It may therefore be that married women say they are happy because they are sick.To be happy in a relationship which imposes so many impediments on her, as traditional marriage does, women must be slightly mentally ill

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

If support for traditional marriage is bigotry, then Barack Obama was a bigot until just before the 2012 election.

I'm an old-fashioned person and I happen to believe in traditional marriage.

There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional child rearing, and has survived.

I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself.

If the social conservatives feel that they have a strong argument on traditional marriage, then feel free to have it.

We've arrived at a point where the President of the United States is going to lead a war on traditional marriage.

The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the ‘revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism.

I repeat to you-my own view is, is that if a State-if people decide to-what they do in the privacy of their house, consenting adults should be able to do. This is America. It's a free society, but it doesn't mean we have to redefine traditional marriage.

I believe in traditional marriage.

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Marriage Advice Quotes

The marriage advice quotes that follow are both practical and uplifting. Make a note of these for both happy and bad days.

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.

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. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

Marriage stands the test of times when both you and your spouse work towards making things better. And we are tested the most when we face adversities. If you can sail through the adversities as one, as a team, then you have won half the battle.

Don’t ever stop dating your wife and don’t ever stop flirting with your husband.

A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it.

You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry – the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.

Love without sacrifice is like theft.

Marriage is not kick-boxing, it's salsa dancing.

Never marry a person who is not a friend of your excitement.

Don't be in a hurry. Everything arise in the due time.

Things can get good again. Even things like a marriage.

When your wife asks you for your opinion, she doesn't really want your opinion. She wants her opinion – just in a deeper voice.

if you ever have doubts that the man you are marrying is not a good man, then promise me you will not marry him.

The Four Pillars of Self Knowledge:
Self is differentiated so not to be by itself.
Self is differentiated for companionship.
Self is differentiated for friendship.
Self is differentiated for love.

You need to play to your strengths as a couple. Sharing is really awesome when you're messing around with Play-Doh in kindergarten. It's less awesome when you're adults and one of you is good at something and the other person sucks at it. So just let the more skilled person take the reins.

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.

Happy Married Life

There are as many ways to live a happy married life as there are individuals in a marriage. The following quotes demonstrate this.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

It’s amazing how one day someone walks into your life, and you cannot remember how you ever lived without them.

I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

The difference between an ordinary marriage and an extraordinary marriage is in giving just a little extra every day, as often as possible, for as long as we both shall live.

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.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there’s no need at all to understand what’s happening, because everything happens within you.

Marriage Sayings

There are numerous ways to describe marriage, but here are a few of our favorites. As an additional special memento of your love, pair these with an anniversary present.

To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to be loved by the person you love is everything.

A good marriage is a contest of generosity.

A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.

A great marriage isn’t something that just happens; it’s something that must be created.

A good marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Marriage is like watching the color of leaves in the fall; ever changing and more stunningly beautiful with each passing day.

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

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Conclusion

There's no doubt that marriage is a labor of love. It's a partnership that will endure a lifetime, provided both parties are prepared to commit and stay devoted.

However, if you are willing to work hard and not give up on love, you will reap greater rewards than you could have imagined.

And you'll soon discover that the best benefits come right after.

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