The best Quotes and Sayings about Marriage

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

It's funny that until I actually met my husband, I never thought I'd get married.

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

Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.

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.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.

When I'm weak, you can be strong; when I'm strong, you can be weak. That's what I believe marriage is.

I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry!

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

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.

There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

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

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

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

Weddings are basically funerals with cake.

Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful.

Girlfriend is such a stupid word. I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I could call her 'wife'

Marriage is like a game of chess. Except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

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

The 'no more surprises'-thing is the best part of being married.

Lucy, every marriage is a dance; complicated at times, lovely at times, most the time very uneventful. But with Mickey, there will be times when your dance will be on broken glass. There will be pain. And you will either flee that pain or hold tighter and dance through it to the next smooth place.

In a good marriage each is the other's better half.

A happy marriage doesn't mean you have a perfect spouse or a perfect marriage. It simply means you've chosen to look beyond the imperfections in both.

Father, I hate being forced into this. If I do marry, I want it to be for love.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Marriage is like a coffin and each kid is another nail.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

Ted: 'Do not pretend you're not the kind of guy, who keeps a list of all the girls he slept with.'
Marshall: 'I have one. It's called my marriage-license.'

You don't marry someone you can live with,
you marry the person who you cannot live without.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.