Married or preparing for marriage? These 100 strong marriage quotes are for you.
Marriages sound exciting to every bachelor and spinster and they just can’t wait to join the family of ‘the married’. Most times due to the excitement, their wedding plans get close to breaking the record of any wedding ever held.
Few years into the bliss, things begin bouncing up and coming down, adventures begin to surface together with mind-blowing moments one would not forget in a jiffy.
With time, you get to discover that marriage is a commitment, you don’t want it to fail jut because things at some point didn’t go as expected.
Nevertheless, it sometimes gets so difficult to carry along with tolerating an overwhelming moment in your marriage but, don’t worry, these 100 strong marriage quotes will surely cheer you up at the end of the day, read on.
100 Strong Marriage Quotes
Every marriage faces a trying time once in a while, what matters is the response of the couples to these trying times. Let these strong marriage quotes guard your decisions during your trying moments.
1. If you live to be a hundred, I wish to live a hundred minus one, so I never have to live without you.
2. The only thing better than having you as my husband is our children having you as their daddy.
3. Best friends for life, husband, and wife.
4. Marriage cannot thrive on leftover attention. It has to get the best effort!
5. Always strive to give your spouse the very best of yourself; not what’s left over after you have given your best to everyone.
6. When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to begin as soon as possible.
7. Marriage does not guarantee you will be together forever, it’s only paper. It takes love, respect, trust, understanding, friendship, and faith in your relationship to make it last.
8. You cannot make your marriage all good by yourself! But you can make it better all by yourself.
9. Marriage is not 50-50, divorce is 50-50. Marriage is 100-100 – it isn’t dividing everything in half but giving everything that you have got.
10. I vow to always love you, even during the football season!
11. The most successful marriages are those where both husband and wife seek to build the self-esteem of the other.
12. A great marriage doesn’t happen when the “perfect couple” gets together. It happens when an imperfect couple gets together and learns to enjoy each other’s differences.
13. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, with the same person.
14. A happy marriage is the union of two forgivers.
15. The greatest marriages are built on teamwork, mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.
16. Make your marriage your own. Don’t look at other marriages and wish you had something else. Work to shape your marriage so that it is satisfying for both of you.
17. Don’t ever stop dating your wife and don’t ever stop flirting with your husband.
18. Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
19. Real couples stay faithful. They don’t even think about looking for another because they are too busy looking for ways to show love to each other.
20. To couples that are meant to be are the ones who go through everything that’s designed to tear them apart and come out stronger than ever before.
21. Two souls but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.
22. Marriage is a love story that never ends.
23. Loving your husband through the hard times, through the valleys, and when he is unlovable, reveals the gospel in us.
24. Marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
25. Grow old with me, let us share what we see! Just you and I, as we are!
26. I believe in marriage, I believe in commitment, I believe in love, togetherness, and family.
27. A wedding is like getting to have a sleepover with your best friend, every single night!
28. A great marriage doesn’t happen because of the love you had in the beginning, but how well you continue building that love until the end.
29. My heart to you is given, give yours to me! We’ll lock them up in a box, and throw away the key.
30. Marriage is not a revolving door. You’re either in or out.
31. Your marriage will not be defined by the size of your struggles, but by the size of your commitment towards your struggles.
32. I choose you. And I’ll continue choosing you over and over again, in a heartbeat. I’ll always choose you.
33. A strong marriage requires you to love each other, especially on days when you’re struggling to like each other.
34. I don’t care what happened yesterday, I am going to love you today.
35. A marriage is like a house. When a light bulb goes off you don’t go to find a new house, you fix the light bulb.
36. Your marriage vows are most important in those moments when they are most difficult to keep.
37. I want the kind of marriage that makes my kids want to get married.
38. Can you grow old with me?
39. I want to inspire my husband. I want him to look at me and say, “It is because of you that I don’t give up!”
40. You married the woman you loved, now love the woman you married.
41. My husband is a gift from God!
42. When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.” – Prince Philip
43. My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.” – Winston Churchill
44. If I get married, I want to be very married.” – Audrey Hepburn
45. 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
46. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.” – Agatha Christie
47. Marriage lets you annoy one special person for the rest of your life.” – Unknown
48. Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.” – Joyce Brothers
49. “After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6° of marriage.” — Mignon McLaughlin
50. “Note: The key to a good relationship is the key. Give me back the key.”
53. “The most important four words for a successful marriage: I’ll do the dishes.”
51. “There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.” — Oscar Wilde
52. “Marriage: A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other for ninety-nine years, or until death does them join.”
53. “All marriages are happy. It’s the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.”
54. “The only mistake for which people are congratulated is marriage.”
55. “When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that’s a few steps ahead is the one that’s mad.”
56. “Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.”
57. “When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.”
58. “Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.”
59. “Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and when you wake up.”
60. “Marriage is just a fancy word to adopt an overgrown male child who is no more handled by his parents.”
61. “My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.”
62. “Marriage is like a game of chess, except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke, and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.” – Jerry Seinfeld
63. “Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted the whole day.” – Mickey Rooney
64. “Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.” —Joyce Brothers
65. “Marriage is the bond between a person who never remembers anniversaries and another who never forgets them.”
66. “Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life serving you; after marriage, he won’t even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.”
67. “The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.”
68. “Marriage: sometimes soulmates, sometimes cellmates.”
69. “More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.”
70. “To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the loving cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up.”
71. “Marriage is like a deck of cards. All you need in the beginning is two hearts and a diamond. After ten years you need a club and a spade.”
72. “Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.”
73. “When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, ‘Ruth and I are happily incompatible.” -Billy Graham
74. “When we got married, I told my wife ‘If you leave me, I’m going with you.’ And she never did.” — James Fineous McBride
75. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” – Mignon McLaughlin
76. “A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.” – Dave Meurer
77. “Never marry the one you can live with, marry the one you cannot live without.” – Unknown
78. “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
79. “Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person.” – Sophia Bush
80. “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.” –
81. “A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.” – Unknown
82. “To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to be loved by the person you love is everything.” – Unknown
83. “May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.” – Rumi
84. “Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.” – Harville Hendrix
85. “A good marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” – Ruth Bell Graham
86. “A good marriage is a contest of generosity.” – Diane Sawyer
87. “Marriage is like watching the color of leaves in the fall; ever-changing and more stunningly beautiful with each passing day.” – Fawn Weaver
88. “A great marriage isn’t something that just happens; it’s something that must be created.” – Fawn Weaver
89. “Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.” – Tom Mullen
90“Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.” – Franz Schubert
91. “There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.” – Martin Luther
92. “It’s amazing how one day someone walks into your life, and you cannot remember how you ever lived without them.” – Unknown
93. “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
94. “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” – Andre Maurois
95. “Marriage is the most natural state of man and the state in which you will find solid happiness.” – Benjamin Frank
96. “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
97. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
98. “When two people are meant for each other, no time is too long, no distance is too far, and no one can ever tear them apart.”
99. “Love doesn’t have to be perfect it just needs to be true and loyal.”
100. “Marriages are like fingerprints; each one is different, and each one is beautiful.” -Maggie Reyes
The greatest marriage sayings
1. “Where there is love there is life.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
2. “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow–this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
3. “If I get married, I want to be very married.”
– Audrey Hepburn
4. “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate then when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
– Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
5. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
– Dr. Seuss
6. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
– Maya Angelou
7. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
8. “I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”
– Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
9. “If I had a flower for every time thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”
– Alfred Tennyson
10. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
– Lao Tzu
11. “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, True Love
12. “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
13. “What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life–to strength 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
14. “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
15. “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
16. “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
17. “I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”
– Marilyn Monroe
18. “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
19. “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 be rather a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
– Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
20. “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
21. “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – Arrigo Boito
22. “Who, being loved, is poor?”
– Oscar Wilde
23. “A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”
– Dave Meurer
24. “There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”
– Martin Luther
25. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
– Henry David Thoreau
26. “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
27. “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
28. “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”
– Andre Marois
29. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
– Sophocles
30. “The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
– Blaise Pascal
31. “Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
– Charles M. Schulz
32. “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
– E.E. Cummings
33. “This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there’s no need at all to understand what’s happening, because everything happens within you.”
– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
34. “People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.”
– Dr. Seuss
35. “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
36. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
37. “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
38. “Romance is the glamor which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.”
– Elinor Glyn
39. “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
40. “Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get–only with what you are expecting to give–which is everything.”
– Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life
41. “When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.”
– John Lennon
42. “I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want… a steady hand. A kind soul.”
– Shana Abe
43. “Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.”
– Oscar Wilde
44. “Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.”
– William Shakespeare
45. “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
– Tom Bodett
46. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”
– Rumi
47. “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Airman’s Odyssey
48. “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
49. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
– David Viscott
50. “We can do no great things; only small things with great love.”
– Mother Teresa
51. “Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
– Elizabeth Browning
52. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
– Robert Heinlein
53. “Love those who love you.”
– Voltaire
54. “In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”
– Janos Arnay
55. “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, A Book of Toasts
56. “I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”
– Elizabeth Browning
57. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”
– William Shakespeare
58. “The highest happiness on earth is marriage.”
– William Lyon Phelps
59. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
– Emily Bronte
60. “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
61. “We need a witness to our lives. There’s a billion people on the planet… I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you’re promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things… all of it, all of the time, every day. You’re saying, ‘Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go unwitnessed because I will be your witness.’”
– Shall We Dance?
62. “Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
– Robert Browning
63. “Think not because you are now wed, that all your courtship’s at an end.”
– Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza
64. “Happiness is anyone and anything at all, that’s loved by you.”
– You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
65. “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
66. “The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
– Rumi
67. “All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” – Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
68. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
– Helen Keller
69. “And think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”
– Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
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70. “Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”
– Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
71. “Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.”
– Henry David Thoreau
72. “I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”
– Arwen, The Fellowship of the Ring
73. “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
– Maya Angelou
74. “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
75. “Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
– Bruce Lee
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