Quotations on Marriage

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love. ~ Billy Graham

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

‘Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.’ ~ Tom Mullen

Making marriage work is like running a farm. You have to start all over again each morning.
- Author Unknown

“Marriage is an exclusive union between one man and one woman, publicly acknowledged, permanently sealed, and physically consummated.” ~ Selwyn Hughes

If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag. . ~ Zig Ziglar

“A man doesn’t own his marriage; he is only the steward of his wife’s love.” ~ Edwin Louis Cole

We have the greatest pre-nuptial agreement in the world.  It's called love.  ~Gene Perret

Love one another and you will be happy.  It's as simple and as difficult as that.  ~Michael Leunig

I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance,
A church filled with family and friends.
I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for,
He said one that would make me his wife.
~Author Unknown


[W]hen 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.  ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally


Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True love stories never have endings.  ~Richard Bach

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.  ~Martin Luther


A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown


Many are the stars I see, but in my eye no star like thee.  ~English saying

Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart.  ~Author Unknown


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

The highest happiness on earth is marriage.  ~William Lyon Phelps


Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Who, being loved, is poor?  ~Oscar Wilde

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.  ~Zora Neale Hurston

A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"

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

My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, both are infinite.
~William Shakespeare

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.  ~Menander

Think not because you are now wed
That all your courtship's at an end.
~Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza

A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.  ~Andre Maurois

There are three things that last: faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love.
- I Corinthians 13:13

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hark! The merry chimes are pealing,
Soft and glad the music swells,
Gaily in the night wind stealing,
Sweetly sound the wedding bells.
- Eliza Cook

Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.
- Kahlil Gibran

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.
- Dean Stanley

Wedded love is founded on esteem.
- Elijah Fenton

I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
- W.B. Yeats

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.
- Old English Rhyme

Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

To have and to hold from this day forward, for better or worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish to death do us part.
- Book of Common Prayer

When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell

There is nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.
- Thomas Moore

He is blessed in love alone,
Who loves for years and loves but one.
- Sir A. Hunt

Grace and remembrance be to you both.
- William Shakespeare

Two souls with but a single thought,
Two heart that beat as one.
- Franz Joseph von Munch-Bellinghausen

To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash

With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.
- Book of Common Prayer

Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.
- Horace

He is the half part of a blessed man
Left to be finished by such as she:
And she a fair divided excellence
Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
- William Shakespeare

Heaven give you many, many merry days.
- William Shakespeare

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Sam Keen

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.
.- Milton

Now join hands, and with your hands your hearts.
- William Shakespeare

Come live with me and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands and crystal brooks,
With silken lines and silver hooks.
- John Donne

“The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.” ~ C.S. Lewis

“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

“Fifty-fifty marriages are impossibility. They do not work. They cannot work. In marriage someone has to be the final decision maker. Someone has to delegate responsibility, and God has ordained that this should be the husband. ” ~ Wayne Mack

Marriage has in it less of beauty, but more of safety, than the single life; it hath not more ease, but less danger; it is more merry and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but is supported by all the strengths of love and charity; and those burdens are delightful. ~ Jeremy Taylor

A married man falling into misfortune is more apt to retrieve his situation in the world than a single one, chiefly because his spirits are soothed and retrieved by domestic endearments, and his self-respect kept alive by finding that although all abroad be darkness and humiliation, yet there is a little world of love at home over which he is a monarch. ~ Jeremy Taylor

A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety, her industry his surest wealth, her economy his safest steward, her lips his faithful counselors, her bosom the softest pillow of his cares. Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner of his joy; a friend shares my sorrow and makes it but a moiety, but he swells my joy and makes it double. ~ Jeremy Taylor

Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life it is most meddled with by other people.  ~ John Selden

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.  ~ John Selden

God intends and expects marriage to be a lifetime commitment between a man and a woman, based on the principles of biblical love. The relationship between Jesus Christ and His church is the supreme example of the committed love that a husband and wife are to follow in their relationship with each other. .  ~ John  C. Bloger

Many conflicts in a marriage result from living to please self instead of living to please the Lord. These conflicts can be resolved and are actually opportunities for spiritual growth when dealt with in a biblical manner. .  ~ John  C. Bloger

Since the marriage relationship is to reflect the relationship between Jesus Christ and His Church, it is imperative that biblical submission and love be practiced in all of its aspects between husband and wife. .  ~ John  C. Bloger