Marriage is one of life’s most beautiful and enduring commitments. It’s a union built on love, patience, understanding, and a touch of humour. Over the centuries everyday people have shared their reflections on what makes marriage so meaningful.
- “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” – Mignon McLaughlin
- “Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning
- “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
- “Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day.”
- “Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.” – Joyce Brothers
- “Marriage is a workshop… where the husband works and the wife shops.”
- “A good marriage is like a casserole—only those involved really know what goes into it.”
- “My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.” – Winston Churchill
- “Marriage lets you annoy one special person for the rest of your life.”
- “Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won’t even lay down his phone.”
- “A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.” – Dave Meurer
- “Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.” – Simone Signoret
- “There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.” – Martin Luther
- “Marriage is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.” – Kahlil Gibran
- “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” – Henry Ford
- “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
- “Being someone’s first love may be great, but to be their last is beyond perfect.”
- “Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.” – Jennifer Smith
- “The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. But a little laughter, kindness, and lots of patience sure help.”
- “In marriage, it’s not about thinking alike. It’s about thinking together.”
- “Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” – Mark 10:9
- “Two are better than one… for if they fall, one will lift up the other.” – Ecclesiastes 4:9–10
- “A cord of three strands is not easily broken.” – Ecclesiastes 4:12
- “Let all that you do be done in love.” – 1 Corinthians 16:14
- “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church.” – Ephesians 5:25
- “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
- “Real love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
- “Here’s to love, laughter, and happily ever after.”
- “We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.”
- “Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite.”
Marriage is not always easy but it’s always worth it when built on love, trust, and shared purpose. These marriage quotes remind us of the deep connection that comes from saying “I do”and living it every day.
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” – Mignon McLaughlin
