Best Marriage Quotes

The best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There was even a kind of necessary tension, a certain tautness between the partners that gave the marriage strength, like the tautness of a full sail. You went forward on it.

My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.

The best marriage in the world is two servants in love. The worst marriage in the world is two masters in love.

Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.

A heart isn't something you get. It's something that's born.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

It doesn’t matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful. For a woman, love comes after marriage.” “Oh, Pa, that’s such an Old Country notion!” “And a good notion it is! All this American business of running around marrying for love, like servants, like Yankees! The best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl. For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel?

So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

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

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

Let there be spaces in your togetherness

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

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

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.