200+ Happy Marriage Quotes That Will Inspire All Couples

When it comes down to it, we hope that these happy marriage quotes are a sweet remind to you and your partner about why you love each other so much. Whether you use the quotes in your vows, in letters to each other, on birthdays, or during special festivals, turn to these quotes about marriage for a little inspiration and reminder of how special your love truly is.

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200+ Happy Marriage Quotes That Will Inspire All Couples
Love Quotes/Message to Inspire Happy Wedding
Couple Wedding Romance and love quotes
Marriage Quotes For Any Occasion
Marriage quotes for the big day

Love Quotes/Message to Inspire Happy Wedding

“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” —André Maurois
“Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.” —Franz Schubert
“Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.” —Ann Landers
“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.” —Mark Twain
“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
“If I get married, I want to be very married.” — Audrey Hepburn
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” — Mignon McLaughlin
“The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.” — E. Joseph Cossman
“To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.” — Franka Potente
“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
“You know you are in love when the two of you can go grocery shopping together.” — Woody Harrelson
“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.” — Winston Churchill
“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.” — Will Ferrell
“What greater thing is there for two human souls then to feel that they are joined for life — to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in silent, unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?” — George Eliot
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” — Ursula K. LeGuin, The Lathe of Heaven
“Let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but not make a bond of love: Let it be rather a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” — Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.” — Dave Meurer
“There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.” — Martin Luther
“Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.” — Sam Levenson
“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” — Andre Marois
“The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.” — Julia Child
“The highest happiness on earth is marriage.” — William Lyon Phelps
“Come, let’s be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.” — Charles Dickens
“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.” — Pearl S. Buck
“The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. A mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.” — Fawn Weaver
“The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.” —Julia Child
“Marriage is like watching the color of leaves in the fall; ever changing and more stunningly beautiful with each passing day.” —Fawn Weaver
“The highest happiness on earth is marriage.” —William Lyon Phelps
“Marriage is a risk; I think it’s a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.” —Cate Blanchett
“A good marriage is one where each partner secretly suspects they got the better deal.” —Unknown
“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” —Elizabeth Gilbert
“Marriage is like a graph—it has its ups and downs and as long as things bounce back up again, you’ve got a good marriage. If it heads straight down, then you’ve got some problems!” —Julie Andrews
“We have a couple of rules in our relationship. The first rule is that I make her feel like she’s getting everything. The second rule is that I actually do let her have her way in everything. And, so far, it’s working.” —Justin Timberlake
“I got gaps; you got gaps; we fill each other’s gaps…Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people; you can set your watch by them. And that’s love, even if it doesn’t seem very exciting.” —Sylvester Stallone
“A simple ‘I love you’ means more than money.” —Frank Sinatra
“When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there.” —Julia Roberts
“There’s no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love. It’s like that beautiful Shakespeare quote from Romeo and Juliet: ‘My bounty is as boundless as the sea. My love is deep. The more I give to thee, the more I have. For both are infinite.'” —Reese Witherspoon
“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” —Ruth Bell Graham
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you directly without problems or pride: I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love, except in this form in which I am not nor are you, so close that your hand upon my chest is mine, so close that your eyes close with my dreams.” —Pablo Neruda
“Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music, and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.” —Henny Youngman
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” —Maya Angelou
“Love is a friendship set to music.” —Joseph Campbell
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” —Mignon McLaughlin
“If I had a flower for every time thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” —Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” —Lao Tzu
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” —Plato
“Look, you want to know what marriage is really like? Fine. You wake up, she’s there. You come back from work, she’s there. You fall asleep, she’s there. You eat dinner, she’s there. You know? I mean, I know that sounds like a bad thing, but it’s not.” —Ray Romano as Ray Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond
“There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.” —Martin Luther
“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.” —Dave Meurer
“When a marriage works, nothing on Earth can take its place.” —Helen Gahagan Douglas
“This is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible beings who do not run away from life.” —Paul Tournier
“Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity, yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.” —Sydney J. Harris
“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.” —Alexander Smith
“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.” —Meg Ryan as Sally Albright in When Harry Met Sally
“Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.” —Sam Levenson
“To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.” —Robert Brault
“After a while, you just want to be with the one that makes you laugh.” —Chris Noth as Mr. Big, Sex and the City
“Being someone’s first love may be great, but to be their last is beyond perfect.” —Anonymous
“The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. A mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.” —Fawn Weaver
“Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is.” —Louis de Bernières
“There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?” —Marry Oliver
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” —Roy Croft
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire.” —Bruce Lee
“Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.” —Jennifer Smith
“I have someone who I can talk to about anything and someone who I care more about than I’ve cared about anybody.” —George Clooney
“Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.” —Harville Hendrix
“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.” —Barbara De Angelis
“Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we married.” —Tim Mullen
“Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.” —Samuel Richardson
“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.” —Henny Youngman
“Happiness [is] only real when shared.” Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
“I married for love but the obvious side benefit of having someone around to find my glasses cannot be ignored.” —Cameron Esposito
“But once you’ve actually been in love, you can’t live with ‘will do;’ it’s worse than living with yourself.” —Andrew Sean Greer, Less
“People say, ‘Jeez, it must be hard to stay married in show business. I think it’s hard to stay married anywhere. But if you marry the right person, it might work out. We give each other a natural sense of support for whatever the other wants to pursue. Our marriage doesn’t require vast work.” —Tom Hanks
“We support each other in everything we do. We want the other one to strive. [It] makes you happy when the other one strives. And you know what, we don’t have a very strong social life because we really like to spend time together. So, we do spend a lot of quality time together.” —Salma Hayak
“We’re friends, too. We love each other, but we actually like each other—and that’s an important distinction there. Love is passion and all of that stuff, but actually liking somebody and enjoying someone’s company is something slightly different, and it lasts longer. So you can have both, and I think that’s important. Be married to your best friend.” —Sting
“He does tell me every single day of my life I’m beautiful, and I do know a lot of women live without that. And it does matter, someone just telling you that.” —Mary Steenburgen
“Something my dad says…He says you end up marrying the one you don’t understand. Then you spend the rest of your life trying.” —Frederik Backman, Anxious People
“You don’t stop loving a person when they’re hurt. You get stronger so they can lean on you.” —Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone
“One of the things that really allows us to get through these moments that are obviously very stressful—we’re talking about the future of the free world—it’s important to be able to laugh at yourself and each other. We do a healthy amount of both of that. We don’t take ourselves too seriously in the context of our relationship. You can’t. You just have to flow and know what’s really important.” —Kamala Harris
“The secret is that you just take care of each other and admire each other and support each other and you get that back … If Jeffrey and I disagree on something, he always agrees with me!” —Ina Garten
“I felt that I had met someone who I would absolutely, you know, trade my life for. I met someone who—her life meant more to me than my life.” —George Clooney
“A good marriage is a contest of generosity.” —Diane Sawyer
“When I feel the support that I have from him, I feel invincible. There’s someone behind you on your good days and someone in front of you on your bad days.” —Emily Blunt

Couple Wedding Romance and love quotes

Are you deeply in love but not yet ready to take the permanent dive? Glean inspiration from these quotes on romance and share them with your special person on your anniversary, their birthday, Valentine’s Day, or any other momentous occasion for the two of you.

“Where there is love, there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“To be fully seen by somebody then and be loved anyhow — this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.” — Alfred Tennyson
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” — Oprah Winfrey
“Love is being stupid together.” — Paul Valery
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.” — Robert Fulghum
“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.” — Albert Einstein
“Remember, your Valentine’s card shows you care enough to send the very best, even though you’re too lazy to put it in your own words.” — Melanie White
“Without Valentine’s Day, February would be… well, January.” — Jim Gaffigan
“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.” — Helen Keller
“We loved a love that was more than love.” — Edgar Allan Poe
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” — Plato
“Who, being loved, is poor?” — Oscar Wilde
“What is love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.” — Victor Hugo
“When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” — Arrigo Boito
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” — Henry David Thoreau
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” — Sophocles
“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.” — e.e. cummings

Marriage Quotes For Any Occasion

Marriage is full of many ups and downs, adventures, and amazing memories with the person you love. And if you’re looking to celebrate a special event with your partner, you may be searching for the perfect quote to highlight those memories. So whether you’re looking for a quote to add to a special photo book anniversary gift, quotes to add to your wedding vows, or even just what to write in an anniversary card, we’ve got you covered. Check out the marriage quotes below to celebrate your beloved one on any occasion.

“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.” – Prince Philip
“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.” – Winston Churchill
“If I get married, I want to be very married.” – Audrey Hepburn
“Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.” – Franz Schubert
“There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.” – Martin Luther
“It’s amazing how one day someone walks into your life, and you cannot remember how you ever lived without them.” – Unknown
“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.” – Carson Daly
“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” – Andre Maurois
“Marriage is the most natural state of man, and the state in which you will find solid happiness.” – Benjamin Frank
“The difference between an ordinary marriage and an extraordinary marriage is in giving just a little extra every day, as often as possible, for as long as we both shall live.” – Fawn Weaver
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” – Mignon McLaughlin
“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.” – Dave Meurer
“Never marry the one you can live with, marry the one you cannot live without.” – Unknown
“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.” – Pearl S. Buck
“Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person.” – Sophia Bush
“Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.” – Marilyn Monroe
“A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.” – Unknown
“To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to be loved by the person you love is everything.” – Unknown
“May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.” – Rumi
“Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.” – Harville Hendrix
“A good marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” – Ruth Bell Graham
“A good marriage is a contest of generosity.” – Diane Sawyer
“Marriage is like watching the color of leaves in the fall; ever changing and more stunningly beautiful with each passing day.” – Fawn Weaver
“A great marriage isn’t something that just happens; it’s something that must be created.” – Fawn Weaver
“Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.” – Tom Mullen
“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.” – Barbara De Angelis
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Don’t ever stop dating your wife and don’t ever stop flirting with your husband.” – Unknown
“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.” – Khalil Gibran
“Marriage stands the test of times when both you and your spouse work towards making things better. And we are tested the most when we face adversities. If you can sail through the adversities as one, as a team, then you have won half the battle.” – Unknown
“Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.” – Susan B. Anthony
“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
“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.” – Agatha Christie
“Marriage lets you annoy one special person for the rest of your life.” – Unknown
“Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.” – Joyce Brothers
“The great marriages are partnerships. It can’t be a great marriage without being a partnership.” – Helen Mirren
“I have a best friend as a husband, and he is my number one supporter. He’s a family man, and he’s always giving back to God. That is what makes him a beautiful man. We’re not perfect by any means, but that makes us beautiful as well. We’re not afraid to say we’re not perfect. We have our disagreements, but that comes along with marriage.” – Tamera Mowry
“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.” – Nicholas Sparks
“True love stands by each other’s side on good days and stands closer on bad days.” – Unknown
“Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.” – Boris Pasternak
“The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don’t find very often, then that is what love is all about.” – Bruce Forsyth
“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.” – Caroline Kennedy
“My husband has made me laugh. Wiped my tears. Hugged me tight. Watched me succeed. Seen me fail. Kept me strong. My husband is a promise that I will have a friend forever.” – Unknown
“Husband and wife relationships are like the relationship of Tom and Jerry. Though they are teasing and fighting, but can’t live without each other.” – Unknown
“My husband is my best friend, my greatest support, my biggest comfort, my strongest motivation, my truest smile, my deepest love, my favorite, my forever. He has me. Entirely.” – Unknown
“A husband and wife may disagree on many things but they must absolutely agree on this: to never, ever give up.” – Unknown
“There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.” – Menander

Marriage quotes for the big day

It’s easy to get lost in the planning of your big day, so take a moment and read through these wedding quotes for couples on their new journey together. You can also repurpose these words of wisdom for decorating your wedding invitations, messages of congratulation for recently married friends or as captions for photos in a wedding book.

“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.” — When Harry Met Sally
“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.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“Never marry a man you wouldn’t want to be divorced from.” — Nora Ephron
“The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make — not just on your wedding day, but over and over again — and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.” — Barbara de Angelis
“The bride and groom — may their joys be as bright as the morning, and their sorrows but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love.” — Minna Thomas Antrim
“Think not because you are now wed, that all your courtship’s at an end.” — Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza
“Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.” — Tom Mullen
“It is such a happiness when good people get together — and they always do.” — Jane Austen
“Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.” — Robert Browning
“I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you, not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.” — Roy Croft
“Two hearts in love need no words.” — Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
“A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.” — Paul Sweeney