I have researched and sourced the best love, relationship and marriage quotes. These 101 quotes, I believe, will inspire and invigorate you if well applied to your relationships.
Best quotes on marriage, love and relationships
1. “To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love, cherish, and to obey, till death us do part.”
Book of common prayers
The above is the traditional Christian wedding prayer. It recognises the permanence of marriage.
2. “What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”
Bible
3. “Marriage is neither heaven nor hell; it is simply purgatory.”
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.
4. “I learnt a long time ago that the only people who count in any marriage the two they are in it.”
Hillary Rodman Clinton
Hillary Rodman Clinton is a former American politician, diplomat, First Lady and Democratic Party Presidential Candidate in 2016.
5. “There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.”
Adela Rogers St. John
Adela Rogers St. John was an American journalist, novelist, and screenwriter.
6. “An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie was an English writer.
7. “If you want to read about love and marriage you’ve got to buy two separate books.”
Alan King
Alan King was an American actor and comedian.
I understand the satirical undertone of this saying. However, I will contend that it is still possible to have a marriage filled with romantic love. That is the ideal.
8. “So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.“
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas was a 19th Century French writer.
9. “Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making, in all, two.”
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and Civil War veteran.
10. “Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.”
Amy Bloom
Amy Bloom is an American writer and psychotherapist.
11. “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”
Andre Maurois
Andre Maurois was a French author.
This quote talks about the importance of intimate conversation in marriage.
12. “Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.”
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was an American lawyer, general, and statesman who served as the 7th US President.
13. “My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and that’s not just my opinion – it’s hers.”
Anonymous
14. “There are no perfect people – except, of course, my wife’s first husband.”
Anonymous
15. “Man’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.”
Euripides
Euripides was a First Century Greek dramatist
16. “Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptations with the maximum of opportunity.”
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.
17. “When my wife was asked, “Do you take this man for richer or poorer . . .” she answered, “For richer.””
Anonymous
18. “Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.”
Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Francis Bacon was an English Courtier
19. “Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.”
Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett was an English novelist
20. “Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring!”
Colley Cibber
Colley Cibber was an English dramatist
21. “Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.”
Anonymous
22. “In the darkest night of a miserable marriage there is always a flickering light. If you focus on that light, it will eventually flood the room.”
Gary Chapman
Gary Chapman is an American pastor and writer
23. “A series of positive actions hold the potential for turning the tide of a troubled marriage.”
Gary Chapman
Gary Chapman is an American pastor and writer
24. “Love is the most powerful weapon for good in the world and desperate marriages.”
Gary Chapman
Gary Chapman is an American pastor and writer
25. “I realize now that life is short, and we are very foolish if we do not keep a balance between work and family. If in trying to be a success, you lose your wife and family, you’ve lost it all.”
Gary Chapman
Gary Chapman is an American pastor and writer
26. “A husband always prefers his wife’s mother-in-law to his own.”
Anonymous
27. “A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.”
Buddha
Buddha was the first millennial spiritual founder of Buddhism.
28. “With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.”
Buddha
Buddha was the first millennial spiritual founder of Buddhism.
29. “Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away.”
Louis de Berniéres
Louis de Berniéres is English novelist.
30. “Love built on beauty, soon as beauty dies.”
John Donne
John Donne was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary.
31. “There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or feign it where it does not.”
Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Duc de la Rochefoucauld was a French moralist and writer of Classical literature.
32. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken was an American journalist and essayist.
33. Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke was an Austrian poet and novelist
34. No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.
Anonymous
35. You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry the person who you cannot live without.
Anonymous
36. A man and a woman marry because both of them don’t know what to do with themselves. –
Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short-story writer
37. It is better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
Arab proverb
38. I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
Barbara Bush
Barbara Bush was the former First Lady of the United States
39. Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath and one of the USA’s Founding Fathers.
40. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath and one of the USA’s Founding Fathers.
41. It is not good that the man should be alone. Bible
Bible
42. Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty, and women their happiness.
Madame Virgine de Rieux
Madame Virgine de Rieux was a 16th-century French writer
43. Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing and obtaineth favour from the Lord.
Bible
44. Marriage is a great institution, and no family should be without it.
Channing Pollock
Channing Pollock was an American playwright and critic
45. Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.
Chinese proverb
46. A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.
Danish proverb
47. Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
French Proverb
48. Any married man should forget his mistakes – no use two people remembering the same thing.
Duane Dewel
Duane Dewel was an American politician and news magazine editor
49. To marry once is a duty, twice a folly, thrice is madness.
Dutch proverb
50. A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier and hoarser than his wife.
Edgar Watson Howe
Edgar Watson Howe was an American novelist and news editor
51. Polygamy: an endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher.
52. Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.
Erica Jong
Erica Jong is an American novelist, satirist, and poet.
53. Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.
Estee Lauder
Estee Lauder was an American businesswoman.
54. If thee marries for money, thee surely will earn it.
Ezra Bowen
Ezra Bowen was an American politician.
55. What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife. –
Finley Peter Dunne
Finley Peter Dunne was an American humorist, journalist and writer.
56. Father giving advice to son: Never do anything once around the house that you don’t want to do for the rest of your life.
Frank Briggs
Frank Briggs was an American politician.
57. I’ve given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can’t divorce a book.
Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson was an American actress, producer, and businesswoman.
58. My husband will never chase another woman. He’s too fine, too decent, too old.
Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen was an American singer, actress, and comedian.
59. I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx was an American comedian, actor, writer and performer.
60. Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.
Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx was an American comedian, actor, writer and performer.
61. One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.
Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx was an American comedian, actor, writer and performer.
62. Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later. For another thing, they die earlier.
H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken was an American journalist, essayist and satirist.
63. No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.
H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken was an American journalist, essayist and satirist.
64. Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
Harland Miller
Harland Miller is an English writer and artist.
65. 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.
Harry Burns
Harry Burns (as Billy Crystal) in the When Harry met Sally movie
66. Matrimony, – the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
Heinrich Heine
Heinrich Heine was a German poet, writer and literary critic.
67. A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
Helen Rowland
Helen Rowland was an American journalist and humorist.
68. The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
Henny Youngman
Henny Youngman was an American comedian and musician
69. Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian-Danish playwright and theatre director.
70. A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright.
71. The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters – any one will do.
J. Ogden Armour
J. Ogden Armour was an American meatpacking magnate.
72. Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached.
Jacob M. Braude
Jacob M. Braude was an American author and speaker.
73. I was the best man at the wedding. So why is she marrying him?
Jerry Seinfeld
Jerry Seinfeld is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer.
74. Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that’s a real treat.
Joanne Woodward
Joanne Woodward is an American actress, producer, and philanthropist.
75. Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
Joseph Barth
Joseph Barth was a Maltese-born Austrian ophthalmologist.
76. Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it.
Josh Billings
Josh Billings was an American humour writer and lecturer.
77. Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman’s the wire -the posts are the husband’s.
Langdon Mitchell
Langdon Mitchell was an American playwright famous on Broadway
78. Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
Langdon Mitchell
Langdon Mitchell was an American playwright famous on Broadway
79. No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Letty Cottin Pogrebin is an American author, journalist, lecturer, and social activist.
80. Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her way, and the other, to let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson was an American politician and the 36th US President from 1963 to 1969.
81. One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour.
M. M. Musselman
M. M. Musselman was a Hollywood screenwriter and writer.
82. Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet.
83. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne was a French Renaissance philosopher of the 16th Century.
84. A virtuous wife is a man’s best treasure.
Prophet Muhammad
Prophet Muhammad was the founder of the World Religion of Islam.
85. Husband and wife come to look alike at last.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was an American poet, physician, and essayist.
86. Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious: both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright.
87. Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you’ll meet that night.
Paul Hornung
Paul Hornung was an American professional football player
88. The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.
Polish proverb
89. When a man opens the car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.
Prince Phillip
Prince Phillip was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II and the consort of the British monarch
90. A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an Irish satirist, politician, playwright, and poet.
91. Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.
Richard J. Needham
Richard J. Needham was a Canadian humour columnist.
92. Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer.
93. As a general thing, people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age when they do not really know what their own kind is.
Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor.
94. A wife encourages her husband’s egoism in order to exercise her own.
Russell Green
Russell Green was an English footballer.
95. An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as if she weren’t.
Sacha Guitry
Sacha Guitry was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright.
96. Pains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That’s what makes a marriage last – more than passion or even sex.
Simone Signoret
Simone Signoret was a French actress.
97. My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill was a British statesman, soldier, writer and past Prime Minister of the UK.
98. Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson was an English writer, poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, and editor.
99. Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.
Shelley Winters
Shelley Winters was an American actress whose career spanned seven decades.
100. A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, statesman and scientist.
101. Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5,000 Gideon Bibles.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gabor was a Hungarian-American actress and socialite.
You have it, the 101 amazing quotes on marriage and relationships.
Conclusion
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