42 Inspirational Marriage Quotes

Marriage is a journey filled with love, laughter, and the occasional challenge. It is a union where two individuals come together, grow, and support each other through life's highs and lows. In the midst of this beautiful journey, words of wisdom and inspiration can serve as a guiding light. Whether you're a newlywed seeking guidance or a couple seasoned by years of togetherness, the right quote can provide a new perspective and deeper appreciation for your partnership. In this collection of 42 inspirational marriage quotes, you'll find sentiments that capture the essence of love, commitment, and the enduring bond that marriage preserves. Let these words inspire your heart and strengthen the connection you share with your partner.

1. “My first wife said, 'It's either thatguitar or me,' you know -- and I giveyou three guesses which one went.” - Jeff Beck

2. “Women may fall when there's no strength in men.Act II” - William Shakespeare

3. “The cafe was called Tattoos. The fella who owned it didn't have any tattoos... but we never saw his wife.” - Karl Pilkington

4. “Prue hadn't really been in love with Fabian. Indeed, it was obvious that at times she found him both boring and irritating. But wasn't that what so many marriages were - finding a person boring and irritating and yet loving him? Who could imagine a man who was never boring, or irritating?” - Barbara Pym

5. “Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.” - Honoré de Balzac

6. “The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.” - Nora Ephron

7. “There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.” - Henry James

8. “For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear.” - Jed Rubenfeld

9. “He remembers which sisterI like least and askshow she is doing.(lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce')” - Carrie Etter

10. “Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter what happens, You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I wilna let ye go.” - Diana Gabaldon

11. “Marriage, [...], the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.” - Malcolm Bradbury

12. “It is to be broken. It is to betorn open. It is not to bereached and come to rest inever. I turn against you,I break from you, I turn to you.We hurt, and are hurt,and have each other for healing.It is healing. It is never whole.” - Wendell Berry

13. “My mind floats like ash. I blame myself most cruelly.” - Suzanne Finnamore

14. “Naturally, I do blame Françoise. I blame her for having N in the first place. She was young, she was beautiful, she was married to a doctor, and she was intelligent. She could have abstained from producing her first son. It was wrong on a variety of levels.” - Suzanne Finnamore

15. “Someday I will have revenge. I know in advance to keep this to myself, and everyone will be happier. I do understand that I am expected to forgive N and his girlfriend in a timely fashion, and move on to a life of vegetarian cooking and difficult yoga positions and self-realization, and make this so much easier and more pleasant for all concerned.” - Suzanne Finnamore

16. “I'm about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The word "busy" is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't care enough to call. Remember men are never to busy to get what they want.” - Greg Behrendt

17. “She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror.” - Nicholas Sparks

18. “Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they're dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not necessarily the best one or the prettiest, just the one who happened to be on hand when the time got to be right. Unromantic, but still true.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

19. “Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.” - Oscar Wilde

20. “They say marriages work better if you don't know the person too well. Maybe we should stop writing each other posthaste.” - Bill Callahan

21. “I harbor ill feelings toward a society, and a clergy, that allows marriage partners to split over the smallest incompatibility, where divorce comes in a multitude of flavors, like Baskin Robbins ice cream, where men and women can blame one another and everything except themselves for matrimony's mess. They look for externals over which they have no control and, fingering them, take no responsibility.” - Robert Dykstra

22. “Divorce is just as contagious as Marriage.” - M.G. Hardie

23. “For better or for worse, but not for lunch,...” - Abigail Thomas

24. “And everyone is always saying that marriage is really hard and takes a lot of work. But the thing is, when you know that you love someone, those things don’t matter. You have to push all the everyday things and the outside world away, and just enjoy knowing that this is the man who has the chest your head is meant to lie on.” - Erin McCarthy

25. “Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting” - Mark Gorman

26. “I know that many, if not most, women would have a problem with my acceptance of what happened with Lara. The reality is I shall always be grateful to Lara for helping my husband when I could not do so. I couldn’t have chosen a better or kinder surrogate.” - Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker

27. “how shall I get through the months or years of my future life, in company with that man -- my greatest enemy -- for none could injure me as he has done? Oh! when I think how fondly, how foolishly I have loved him, how madly I have trusted him, how constantly I have laboured, and studied, and prayed, and struggled for his advantage, and how cruelly he has trampled on my love, betrayed my trust, scorned my prayers and tears, and efforts for his preservation --crushed my hopes, destroyed my youth's best feelings, and doomed me to a life of hopeless misery -- as far as man can do it -- it is not enough to say that I no longer love my husband -- I HATE him! The word stares me in the face like a guilty confession, but it is true: I hate him -- I hate him!” - Anne Brontë

28. “The question was whether James would love me if I was someone else.” - Barbara Delinsky

29. “I die a Queen, but I would rather die the wife of Culpepper” - Katherine "Kitty" Howard

30. “Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding-ring!” - Colley Cibber

31. “Your marriage," Jake said, almost impatiently. "It's like the grapes. Just a paint job."He went straight to bed.” - Charlie Carillo

32. “[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.” - Timothy Keller

33. “A fine young man and a fine young felly he always was, except that in the old days, before you began coming in here, Mr. Witherwax, he maybe had too much money and spent too much of it on girls. Take them alone, either one; the money without the women, or a good girl without the money that can be a help to a young felly, and he's fixed for life. But put them together; and often as not, the young felly goes on the booze. ("The Better Mousetrap")” - Fletcher Pratt

34. “The importance of falling in love lies not in how it feels, but in what it perceives. And as always with our feelings, the key moral issue is how truthful the perception is... Falling in love is a sign that this might be someone with whom you could make a good marriage. Still, it's not enough, because the feeling is not always as perceptive as it should be... So falling in love is not the basis for a good marriage. It's not even a requirement. Marriage does not depend on falling in love; it depends on the promises you make to each other in your wedding vows and then spend a lifetime keeping. As many people have pointed out, you can't promise how you'll feel. But you can promise to cultivate a virtue, such as the virtue of love.” - Phillip Cary

35. “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.” - Mark Twain

36. “The thrill of falling in love is often the thrill of being loved; the thrill of marriage is the thrill of loving someone for the rest of your life. Each day - and year - that passes is a triumph of this act of loving.” - Susan Waggoner

37. “Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.” - Julian Barnes

38. “Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.” - Leo Tolstoy

39. “You are so precious to me, Ana. I was serious about marrying you. We can get to know each other then. I can look after you. You can look after me. We can have kids if you want. I will lay my world at your feet, Anastasia. I want you, body and soul, forever. Please think about it.” - E.L. James

40. “I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.” - Paulo Coelho

41. “What indeed is there to say? To be or not to be married, that was the question, and they had decided it in the affirmative.” - E. M. Forster

42. “What kind of husband would I be if I bet against my own marriage?'I smiled. 'The stupid kind. Didn't you listen to your dad when he told you not to bet against me?” - Jamie McGuire