Best Marriage Quotes of All Time
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
Marriage Quotes 001 – 100
- 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
- It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
- The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
Jackie Kennedy
- A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
- Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Franz Schubert

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
- 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
- Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
Groucho Marx
- My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill
- Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln
- Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
- Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without.
James Dobson
- The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
Henny Youngman
- Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Martin Luther
- When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.
Prince Philip
- Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
John Lyly
- A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre Maurois
- An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
Booth Tarkington
- One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Oscar Wilde
- When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Joseph Campbell
- Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
St. Jerome
- A good husband makes a good wife.
John Florio
- 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
- Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.
H. L. Mencken
- When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Sacha Guitry
- A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel de Montaigne
- Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Billy Connolly

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
- It’s tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won’t drink from my glass.
Rodney Dangerfield
- Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce
- Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Sydney Smith
- A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
- Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
- If I get married, I want to be very married.
Audrey Hepburn
- I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
- Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person.
Sophia Bush
- Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.
Mae West
- Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
Ann Landers
- A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John Steinbeck
- Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and give her a house.
Lewis Grizzard
- Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Joyce Brothers
- There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
Princess Diana
- Husbands are like fires – they go out when they’re left unattended.
Cher
- I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
Barbara Bush
- I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
Bette Davis
- Marriage should be a duet – when one sings, the other claps.
Joe Murray
- All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
Red Skelton
- I married beneath me, all women do.
Nancy Astor
- When I get married, it’ll be no secret.
Elvis Presley
- There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.
Clint Eastwood