Marriage & Partnership: Marriage Quotes

Discover a curated collection of marriage quotes that honor love, commitment, and the daily art of partnership. Find thoughtful lines that balance romance with resilience, celebrating companionship, trust, and shared growth. From timeless sentiments to fresh perspectives, these selections include voices from poets, authors, and everyday wisdom. Use them to reflect on vows, spark conversation, or add meaningful words to cards and celebrations. Whether newlyweds or longtime partners, explore insights that affirm respect, patience, humor, and the enduring promise of a life built together.

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"There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

George Bernard Shaw

"The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again"

Judith Viorst, Author

Judith Viorst

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

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

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

Mignon McLaughlin

"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

Oscar Wilde

"Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

Arnold H. Glasow

"Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it"

Roger McGough, Poet

Roger McGough

"Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth"

John Lyly, Writer

John Lyly

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

J.B. Priestley

"In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self"

William Penn, Leader

William Penn

"Marriage is the tomb of love"

Giacomo Casanova, Celebrity

Giacomo Casanova

"You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being"

Richard J. Needham, Cartoonist

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"Marriage is an adventure, like going to war"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning"

Clint Eastwood, Actor

Clint Eastwood

"We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that"

Prince William, Royalty

Prince William

"Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!"

Patrice Leconte, Director

"I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight"

Mark Ruffalo, Actor

"Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"Marriage is the death of hope"

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

"It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

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

Mae West, Actress

Mae West

"I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

Elizabeth I

"Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

Ambrose Bierce

"In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

Arthur Schopenhauer

"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony"

Jane Austen, Writer

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen, Writer

Jane Austen

"An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know"

Bette Davis, Actress

Bette Davis

"Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three"

Heraclitus, Philosopher

Heraclitus

"Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit"

Billy Connolly, Comedian

Billy Connolly

"Staying focused is hard work and staying married is even harder"

Crystal Gayle, Musician

Crystal Gayle

"Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate"

Corrine Brown, Politician

Corrine Brown

"I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry"

Rita Rudner, Comedian

Rita Rudner

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