Quotes About Marriage

Marriage is a complicated thing and it has many meanings and explanations.

Some differences exist in the definition of a marriage and they occur from culture to culture and even within the culture from person to person. Views and definitions of marriage have also changed significantly over the centuries and decades.

Let’s take a look at some of the most interesting quotes on marriage to make you appreciate your other half, while also giving you a little chuckle.

Quotes About Marriage

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

André Maurois

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

Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Mignon McLaughlin

“Who we marry is one of the most important decisions in life. One that will influence the level of happiness, growth, and success, like no other choice.”

Nathan Workman

“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.”

Caroline Kennedy

“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”

Robert Quillen

“Happiness is only real when shared”

Jon Krakauer

“There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.”

Menander

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

Franz Schubert

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

Audrey Hepburn

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

Winston Churchill

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”

Hermann Hesse

“Marriage is a risk; I think it’s a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.”

Cate Blanchett

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

Fawn Weaver

“I don’t want to be married just to be married. I can’t think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can’t talk to, or worse, someone I can’t be silent with.”

Mary Ann Shaffer

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

Dave Meurer

“Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.”

Ann Landers

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

Maya Angelou

“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 essence of marriage is companionship, and the woman you face across the coffee urn every morning for ninety- nine years must be both able to appreciate your jokes and to sympathize with your aspirations.”

Elbert Hubbard

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.”

Noah Calhoun

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

Sophia Bush

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

Maggie Reyes

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

Martha Gellhorn

“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

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

Mark Twain

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

Lao Tzu

“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?”

Groucho Marx

“There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.”

Ronald Reagan

“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

“Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.”

Ogden Nash

“Love, a temporary insanity curable by marriage.”

Ambrose Bierce

“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.”

Marilyn Monroe

“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

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

Martin Luther

“The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.”

Jackie Kennedy

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”

Edgar Allan Poe

“The highest happiness on earth is marriage.”

William Lyon Phelps

“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.”

Fawn Weaver

“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he’s not the man she married?”

Barbra Streisand

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

Boris Pasternak

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

Fawn Weaver

“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

“Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without.”

James Dobson

“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life–to strength 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

“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.”

Bruce Forsyth

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

Harville Hendrix

“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.”

Barbara De Angelis

“Marriage is like a graph it has its ups and downs and as long as things bounce back up again, you’ve got a good marriage. If it heads straight down, then you’ve got some problems!”

Julie Andrews

“One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.”

Oscar Wilde

“There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?”

Mary Oliver

“When a marriage works, nothing on Earth can take its place.”

Helen Gahagan Douglas

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is a success.”

Henry Ford

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

Susan B. Anthony

“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”

Ruth Bell Graham

“To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the loving cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up.”

Ogden Nash

“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.”

Harry Burns, When Harry Met Sally

“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

“Marriage is a commitment – a decision to do, all through life, that which will express your love for one’s spouse.”

Herman H. Kieval

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

Rumi

“This is what marriage means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible beings who do not run away from life.”

Paul Tournier

“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.”

Abraham Lincoln

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

Jennifer Smith

“The older theory was, to marry an older man because they’re more mature. But the new theory is men don’t mature. Marry a younger one.”

Rita Rudner

“Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he’ll fall asleep before you finish saying it.”

Helen Rowland

“A good marriage is a contest of generosity.”

Diane Sawyer

“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterward.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”

Alexander Smith

“Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it.”

Josh Billings
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What Is the Meaning of Marriage?

In general, everyone understands that the meaning of marriage is when two people publicly swear or commit to living together and sharing their lives in a way that is recognized legally, socially, and sometimes religiously.

In simple words, the meaning of marriage is nothing but the sharing of two lives involving a myriad of aspects that include joining their bodies, souls, and spirits in a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual union.

So, when it comes to finding the true meaning of marriage, which one is happy and fulfilling and finds answers to questions like what God says about marriage? Or what does marriage mean to you? five aspects explain it better.

Now let’s look at them one by one.

1. Marriage means being in agreement

There’s a saying that goes ‘how can two people go on a trip together if they haven’t agreed on it?’ It’s the same with marriage. When two people decide to get married, there must be a certain level of agreement between them.

Previously, this agreement may have been reached by family members in the case of an arranged marriage. Nowadays, however, it is mostly the couple themselves who make the decision and reach an agreement to spend the rest of their lives together.

2. Marriage starts with a question

After the fundamental question ‘will you marry me?’ was asked in the affirmative and they were answered, then many more questions and agreements need to be reached.

3. Marriage is a legal relationship

The couple must agree on what type of legal marriage contract they will use, such as community property or a prenuptial agreement. Some other important contracts would include whether or not to have children together, and if so, how many.

They must agree on how they will practice and express their faith and what they will teach their children.

4. Marriage is about learning to disagree

But at the same time, in case an agreement cannot be reached, both partners should agree to disagree maturely and try to reach a compromise in case agreements cannot be reached to avoid these things turning into long conflicts run.

5. Marriage means getting rid of your selfishness

When you get married, you realize that it’s not all about you anymore. This is the true meaning of marriage where ‘I’ becomes ‘we’.

In your single days, you could make your plans, come and go as you chose, and make most of your decisions according to your wishes and desires.

Now that you are married, you have to consider a spouse who is twenty-four-seven. Whether you’re cooking or shopping for dinner, what you’re doing at the weekend or where you’re going on holiday – both opinions now have weight.

In this sense, a happy marriage is one of the best antidotes to selfishness.

Wrapping Up

The marriages that work best and provide the greatest satisfaction are those in which both partners are one hundred percent committed, wholeheartedly seeking the happiness and well-being of their spouse.

Remember, if one of you is giving everything and the other is giving little or nothing, you may need help finding balance and getting on the same page.

For more inspiration, check out our quotes on love.

Nemanja
Nemanja

I am a writer and a teacher of rhetoric, international humanitarian law, and entrepreneurship. As a writer, I specialize in writing about history, politics, and finding quirky ways to elevate all the great selling points of a product/service. I obtained my bachelor's degree in International Relations at the University of Montenegro and completed my master' s studies at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary where I studied diplomacy. I believe studying diplomacy and politics sets you up for knowing how to craft a sentence, how to fill it with content and ensure that your audience understands the message.

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