Welcome to our collection of insightful and inspiring quotes about marriages. Marriage, a sacred bond between two individuals, is a journey filled with love, joy, challenges, and growth. Throughout history, great minds and poets have articulated the essence of marriage in profound and meaningful ways, capturing the nuances of commitment, partnership, and companionship that define this timeless institution.
From the romantic musings of poets to the wise reflections of philosophers, the quotes gathered here offer a diverse array of perspectives on marriage. Whether you’re seeking words of wisdom to strengthen your own relationship, looking for inspiration for a wedding toast, or simply reflecting on the beauty of love and partnership, these quotes are sure to resonate.
For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that’s longer than most marriages. David Fincher
The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives. Tullian Tchividjian
Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands. Joyce Banda
The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. Rick Santorum
After three failed marriages, I know what it’s like to be replaced. So that’s kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today… A former No. 1 choice looks to me like he’s going to be a bust in Detroit. Terry Bradshaw
I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn’t think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn’t see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off. Gloria Steinem
Despite my divorces, I still believe in marriage, and I have believed in all my marriages, although maybe not the one with Sylvester Stallone, as I was really pressured to marry him. Brigitte Nielsen
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. Doug Larson
In my marriages, I’d lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be. Jane Fonda
The happy marriages never get any publicity. It’s just the bad ones that you read about. Cyd Charisse
I put urinals in all my houses. They save marriages. Corey Harrison
It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I’ve come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself. Sylvester Stallone
I have six brothers and sisters. My mother has six kids from two different marriages. And we would just sit around making fun of each other’s dad, and all our dads had real problems. Michael Che
I think I’ve become the brand ambassador of arranged marriages, especially for working Indian women. Sakshi Tanwar
I have known a few good marriages, but very few. And others look to me like they’re pretty miserable. I don’t really think that’s a recipe for happiness. Hugh Grant
Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price. Louis Leakey
Giving married women an independent legal existence did not destroy heterosexual marriage. And allowing husbands and wives to construct their marriages around reciprocal duties and negotiated roles – where a wife can choose to be the main breadwinner and a husband can stay home with the children – was an immense boon to many couples. Stephanie Coontz
No one – not a conservative or liberal or whatever – can stand back and ‘define’ what marriage means. Other people’s marriages have nothing to do with mine; whether my neighbors are divorced or gay or widowed will not lead me to change anything about how my wife and I deal with each other or how we raise our children. Kurt Eichenwald
I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. Wilkie Collins
I don’t know nothing about no marriages or nothing. I ain’t even never been to a wedding. Mike Epps
I was attracted to the bad boys, the troublemakers. You know, the ones that were really cute but didn’t come home. So I have a couple of failed marriages under my belt, but that’s OK. Delilah
There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages. Rainer Maria Rilke
There was no way the marriages could have survived. Nor do I regret that they didn’t. Ava Gardner
I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I’ve seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties. Anne Lamott
We humans can get used to anything. It really is remarkable. The problem is that we often use this glorious ability of ours to stay stuck in mediocrity. Oh, the years we waste adapting to lousy marriages, soul-sucking jobs, being friends with people who are rude to waitresses. Jen Sincero
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. John Lyly
But marriage goes in waves. You’ve got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don’t put the work and the effort into it. You’ve got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall. Anna Benson
I don’t remember my first two marriages… the details are very sketchy. Ian McShane
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. Will Durant
To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits. Eleanor Holmes Norton
I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely. Ava Gardner
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage. Christopher Lasch
For me, I’ve never talked about my private life. It’s always been about Black Sabbath. It’s strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not. Tony Iommi
I don’t want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair – some of our neighbours’ marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment. John Burnside
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success. J. Paul Getty
I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I’ve never been married, I’m single. Paula Danziger
Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us. Anne Lamott
Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment – whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief. Malcolm Turnbull
My dad is from Japanese descent, my mom is from Swedish descent and, through marriages and divorces, a pretty multicultural family – a lot of Spanish speakers in the family. Cary Fukunaga
Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn’t marry someone for the ‘operational efficiencies’ they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason? Simon Sinek
Marriages don’t last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? Rita Rudner
When Brad and I got married in 2008, it got a lot of attention. And all the attention was over the fact that we were two men, but people were hardly conscious of the fact that we were entering into an interracial marriage. That’s wonderful, because it was only 50 years ago with Loving v. Virginia that interracial marriages were made legal. George Takei
It’s not that I think weddings – or marriages – are letdowns. It’s just that I want to see my wedding as one awesome achievement on a continuum of achievements, all of which were, in their way, just as beautiful and profound for having led me to the current one. Jessi Klein
Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it’s obviously such a strange lifestyle. Chris Terrio
The Libertarian Party holds that same-sex marriages are an individual issue and that the government has no right to determine with whom a person should have a relationship. Michael Badnarik
In any family, the joy of a wedding must be tinged with a little anxiety. So many marriages fail. Luckily, people often get over such traumas. But for the Royal Family, marriages carry the gravest dangers. Michael Portillo
I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics. Tony Abbott
Nations fight against nations, in marriages people fight against each other, children fight against each other. We are in warfare, in a national warfare, and in warfare with each other and with ourselves. Charles Stanley
Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex. Dennis Prager
I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24×7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in. Kajol
I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages. Tony Campolo
Lot’s of marriages don’t last as long as Queen have been together. John Deacon
All marriages are happy. It’s the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. Raymond Hull
I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages. Casey Wilson
Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing… the secret of having it all is loving it all. Joyce Brothers
We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife. William Shatner
The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ. John Piper
After several different marriages and failures, my mom started turning to the Lord. So she brought us to church. We got involved with the youth programs, and I got on fire a couple months in, like, ‘Wow, this feels good.’ At 10 years old, you don’t know. It felt good. Ken Shamrock
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking – the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship. Patrick O’Brian
The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived. Bernard DeVoto
I’m a believer in arranged marriages. I mean, mine was kind of an arranged marriage. My sister introduced me to my husband. You know, kind of set it up. Neeru Bajwa
I think it’s something that needs to be said – that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there’s nothing wrong with it. Tia Mowry
There are some Muslim leaders whose wives are Hindu. There are some Hindu leaders who are married to Muslim women. These have been love marriages, but such couples do not display their love in public. They are wary and cautious about annoying voters. Ravish Kumar
Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles. Farrah Fawcett
The truth is that most marriages have food as a major player in them, and certainly mine does. Nora Ephron
No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages. Judy Biggert
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and indicated that he would support a constitutional amendment. Jean O’Leary
I know all about cheating. I’ve had six very successful marriages. Bobby Heenan
As a 29-year-old, the only thing that I can possibly think is that if I’m still performing at 50, it’s because I’ll have had disastrous marriages and I have to pay for them. Robbie Williams
In Israel, there is no civil marriage. All elements of religious life – from the kosher certification of food to conversion to marriages and burials – are controlled by the rabbinate. In Israel, then, the official religion is not just Judaism. It’s Orthodoxy. Bari Weiss
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side. Zig Ziglar
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship. Joseph Addison
I believe the wedding vows are sacred and precious, and it’s been one of my goals as a writer to portray the kind of marriages I’ve seen modeled in my family – my parents and grandparents, who all celebrated fifty-year anniversaries and well-beyond. Deborah Raney
Divorce, and broken marriages, are all around us, but they’re not frequently depicted on screen, or if they are, they’re often depicted in ways that have very little to do with reality. Katie Hafner
I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television. Jenna Elfman
The blessing is that my kids have a lot of strong men and strong marriages around them, so I feel like they are getting what they need as far as role modeling. So I don’t feel the pressure for them. Taya Kyle
Someone who’ll bring some normalcy into my life and help me stay in touch with reality. That is something I’m curious about. There are so many actors who are married to people from non-film backgrounds, and their marriages are successful. I’m tired of dating actresses. Shahid Kapoor
I always admire the French and the Italians who are very devoted to their marriages. They take them extremely seriously, but it is understood that there might be other visitors at 5 o’clock in the afternoon. You just never boast about. They never say anything, but that’s what keeps marriages together. Hugh Grant
I felt she had two unhappy marriages, it was wonderful the way it was. When Audrey would be asked, she’d also say, ‘Why mess with a good thing?’ I remember her saying to one interviewer it’s more romantic this way because it’s not another piece of paper, but out of loyalty to each other that binds us together. Robert Wolders
I mean, we had on our show, we had marriages, divorces and other stuff going on. And that was just me. Harvey Korman
The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so. Paul Martin
How many people have had starter marriages? For some reason, mine really offends people. Jessica Seinfeld
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on. Henry Fielding
They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. Clint Eastwood
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. Antisthenes
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent. Jonathan Sacks
I’ve given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can’t divorce a book. Gloria Swanson
I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages. Alana Stewart
All marriages are happy. It’s trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems. Shelley Winters
Marriage, even the best marriages are tough. Jayne Meadows
Well, marriage doesn’t function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it’s in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage – and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York – it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people. Jeffrey Eugenides
I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don’t regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can’t have it all. Lauren Bacall
The great marriages are partnerships. It can’t be a great marriage without being a partnership. Helen Mirren
The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It’s the ones that become the friendships that last. Andrew Sullivan
Y’know, every relationship is different. There are good marriages, bad marriages, connected partners, unconnected partners. Sandra Bullock
The marriages to Mickey and Artie were easy come, easy go. I called them my ‘starter husbands!’ Ava Gardner
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine’s attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn’t prevent it being a religious ceremony. Ludwig Wittgenstein
There’s a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There’s kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That’s one of the things that makes it stressful, and that’s something that’s nonexistent in a parent-child relationship. Jeremy Sisto