Marriage Quotes

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.

~ Anne Taylor Fleming

The person you marry is the person you fight with. The house you buy is the house you repair. The dream job you take is the job you stress over. Everything comes with an inherent sacrifice—whatever makes us feel good will also inevitably make us feel bad. What we gain is also what we lose. What creates our positive experiences will define our negative experiences.

~ Mark Manson

That is what a well-guarded prayer life can reveal about us, that our trust is not in ourselves but in seeking God's strength for what we do. Prayer is not a substitute for action, but prayer undergirds action with the strength that makes the difference.

~ Ravi Zacharias

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

~ Thomas Hardy

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.

~ Augustus

Love is always fresh as morning dew.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May you love blossom like a lily.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When we are at peace within our marriage, the effects can be astounding! We will raise happier children, become better employees, and overall find the joy in life.

~ Lindsey Rietzsch

The break of a family is the break of society.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The bond of love, the bond of peace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There are many types of marriage relationships and all of them can work, but none is sadder than the one that doesn't represent peace in your heart.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We are all capable of loving.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is not the lack of commitment that destroys marriages, it is the lack of purpose.

~ Debasish Mridha

Marriage is nothing but a commitment to care and share.

~ Debasish Mridha

Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.

~ Jennifer Egan

Silent as a flower, her face fell in dismay, aware that the ghost of lust ate and left, sensing that there was a different scent of perfume consuming the room, and that she had numbered and counted the he loves me, he loves me not of each petal, where the lifeless dust had settle.

~ Anthony Liccione

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

~ Rita Rudner

Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.

~ Shannon Hale

I was realizing something I should have known by using my intelligence, without ever having gone to their flat at all: that the ties between Nelson and his wife are bitterly close, and never to be broken in their lives. They are tied by the closest of all bonds, neurotic pain-giving; the experience of pain dealt and received; pain as an aspect of love; apprehended as a knowledge of what the world is, what growth is.Nelson is about to leave his wife; he will never leave her. She will wail at being rejected and abandoned; she does not know she will never be rejected.

~ Doris Lessing

There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I respect a woman who can respect me when I'm not around.

~ Mark W. Boyer

Jealousy from a love affair is something even God can admit.

~ Criss Jami

It takes courage to let go of the past and all the mechanisms you have put in place, in order to ease your pain, regret and fear through avoiding responsibility for it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

What happens to us are tiny matters compared to us response to any situation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The purest regret, no matter what, is thinking you didn't love enough.

~ Criss Jami

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

And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

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

Longed for him. Got him. Shit.

~ Margaret Atwood

Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he will love you, that he will respect you, that he will honor you, that he will be absolutely true to you, that he will give you the freedom of expression and let you fly in the development of your own talents. He is not going to be perfect, but if he is kind and thoughtful, if he knows how to work and earn a living, if he is honest and full of faith, the chances are you will not go wrong, that you will be immensely happy.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!

~ Anaïs Nin

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

~ Jane Austen

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

Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they're dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not necessarily the best one or the prettiest, just the one who happened to be on hand when the time got to be right. Unromantic, but still true.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

~ Jonathan Franzen

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

~ Dave Meurer

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

Whoa, I'm your girlfriend now? Archer shrugged. We've tried to kill each other, fought ghouls, and kissed a lot. I'm pretty sure we're married in some cultures.

~ Rachel Hawkins