Inspirational Marriage Quotes

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Ruth Graham

Love, Friendship, Relationship

Ruth Bell Graham, Gigi Tchividjian (2009). “A Quiet Knowing”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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

Marriage, Love You, Long

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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Theodore Hesburgh

Love, Inspirational, Funny

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Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Henry Ford

Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Zig Ziglar

Inspirational, Funny, Life

FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jun 28, 2013

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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

Barbara Johnson

Love, Inspirational, Life

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Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don't expose it to the elements. You don't make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.

F. Burton Howard

Love, Family, Marriage

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Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.

Michele Weiner-Davis

Relationship, Marriage, Real

Michele Weiner Davis (2002). “The Divorce Remedy: The Proven 7-Step Program for Saving Your Marriage”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.

Robert Browning

Marriage, Persons, Findings

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Martin Luther

Love, Marriage, Sorry

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Joseph Barth

Marriage, Best Love, Growing Up

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God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.

Max Lucado

Marriage, God, Government

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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

Leo Tolstoy

Relationship, Marriage, Wedding

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Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Simone Signoret

Love, Anniversary, Marriage

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love, Inspirational, Life

Terre des Hommes ch. 8 (1939)

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Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

Khalil Gibran

Marriage, Wedding, Endless Sea

Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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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

Love, Funny, Life

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Love, Relationship, Anniversary

Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Andre Maurois

Love, Happiness, Anniversary

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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

Love, Marriage, Funny Valentines Day

Judith Viorst (1987). “Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.”, Fireside

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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Motivational, Friendship

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In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

Robert Anderson

Love, Inspirational, Anniversary

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Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

William Wordsworth

I Love You, Birthday, Marriage

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

Love, Marriage, Wedding

Homer (1983). “The Odyssey”, Outlet

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As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever
decide to leave, she is coming with me."

Jon Bon Jovi

Marriage, Wife, Secret

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