Positive Marriage Quotes
Sunday, January 8, 2012 at 6:18PM We love sending out positive quotes on marriage via Twitter and Facebook each day. But as we began scouring the web for great quotes, we could not find a good compilation so we decided to create one.
If you have a favorite marriage quote you don't see on this list, please write it in the comments section below and as long as it's positive (and good), we'll add it to this list. We hope you enjoy and take the time to post these to your own Facebook and Twitter pages.
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." -Mignon McLaughlin
"No one can go back and change how it started but a new future for any marriage can begin the moment one person begins to invest in it." -Fawn Weaver
"Being in a long marriage is a little bit like that nice cup of coffee every morning - I might have it every day, but I still enjoy it." -Stephen Gaines
"A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers." -Ruth Bell Graham
"To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness." -Robert Brault
"Once we figured out that we could not change each other, we became free to celebrate ourselves as we are." -H. Dean Rutherford (in a letter to his wife on their 59th wedding anniversary)
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." -Henry Ford
"A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences." -Dave Meurer
"Keep the fire lit in your marriage and your life will be filled with warmth." -Fawn Weaver
"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 a result of being married to you." -Richard Needham
"When you compromise your beliefs for the sake of gain, that is a lack of integrity. When you compromise your beliefs for the sake of greater understanding with your spouse, that's called wisdom." -Fawn Weaver
"One day, in your search for happiness, you discover a partner by your side, and you realize that your happiness has come to help you search." -Robert Brault
"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
"They say it takes a village to raise a child. That may be the case, but the truth is that it takes a lot of solid, stable marriages to create a village." -Diane Sollee
"A happy marriage doesn't mean you have a perfect spouse or a perfect marriage. It simply means you've chosen to look beyond the imperfections in both." -Fawn Weaver
"There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?" -Mary Oliver
"A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world." -Robert Brault
"To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart - about a finger's breadth - for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule." -Marnie Reed Crowell
"In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the opposite: it begins all." -Anne S Swetchine
"Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate." -Barnett R. Brickner
"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly." -Peter De Vries
"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years." -Simone Signoret
"A marriage is not a noun; its a verb. It isn't something you get. Its the way you love your partner everyday." -Barbara De Angelis
"There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps." -Ronald Reagan
"Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids -- two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true." -Robert Brault
"When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience." -Warren Buffett
"Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made everyday, made new." -Unknown
"Marriage is our society's most pro-child institution. If you want kids to do well, then you want marriage to do well." -David Blankenhorn
"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive." -Olando Battista
"The more things we can laugh about, the more alive we become: The more things we can laugh about together, the more connected we become." -Frank Pittman
"Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly." -Imogene Stubbs
"Was it love at first sight? It wasn't then - but it sure is now." -Ann Meara (comedian Ben Stiller's mom), married 58 years
"There comes a time when a man and woman realize that their separate schemes can be better achieved as a conspiracy." -Robert Brault
"The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion." -Benjamin Franklin
"A good marriage at age 50 predicted positive aging at 80. But, surprisingly, low cholesterol levels did not." -George Valliant, MD, Harvard Medical School
"No one has ever measured (not even poets) how much love the heart can hold." -Zelda Fitzgerald
"Marriage is like a fine wine, if tended properly, it just gets better with age." -Unknown
"Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without." -James C. Dobson
"Being married is the nicest thing to be." -Germaine from the movie, "If A Man Answers"
"Follow your heart wherever it may take you and my heart is with You, YOU are my heart" -Belinda Descombes, HWC member
"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
“One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness.” –Stormie Omartian
"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
"When there is love in a marriage, there is harmony in the home; when there is harmony in the home, there is contentment in the community; when there is contentment in the community, there is prosperity in the nation; when there is prosperity in the nation, there is peace in the world." -Chinese Proverb
"No one has ever measured (not even poets) how much love the heart can hold." -Zelda Fitzgerald
"If it's important to her, then it's important to me." -Greg Provance
"The couple who prays together - stays together." -Unknown
“There is no greater risk than matrimony. But there is nothing happier than a happy marriage.” -Former British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli
"I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more." -Candice Bergen
"Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future." -Diane Frolov
"A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love." - Pearl Buck
"...Your gift to me is uninsurable. No appraiser can put a value on it… It’s like fruit of the month or a lifetime subscription – a perpetual-motion happiness machine. It starts off fresh and brand new every day, shining up my whole world…" -Ronald Reagan - in a letter to his wife Nancy
"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
"Excitement and fire are not qualities inherent to relationships they are what happen when two people make marriage the number one priority." -Michele Weiner-Davis
"Your priorities aren't what you SAY they are. They are revealed by how you live. What does your life say about the value of your family and marriage?" -Marriage Today
"Happiness: "You Bring Your Own Weather To The Picnic." - Gretchen Rubin
"A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life." -Joseph Addison
"The greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love." -Eucharista Ward
"Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again." -Max Lucado
"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." - Robert Heinlein
"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
"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that." -Michael Leunig
"I got gaps; you got gaps; we fill each other's gaps." -Rocky Balboa (Rocky, the movie)
"Marriages, like a garden, take time to grow. But the harvest is rich unto those who patiently and tenderly care for the ground." -Darlene Schacht
"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." -Joseph Addison
"The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage." -William Lyon Phelps
"Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they are on the same side." -Zig Ziglar
"The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make on your wedding day, and over and over again and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband..." -Barbara De Angelis
"Motto for the bride and groom: We are a work in progress with a lifetime contract." -Phyllis Koss
"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting." -George Eliot
"A good marriage is one in which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love." -Pearl S. Buck
"A happy marriage is a selfless journey in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." -George & Yvonne Levy
"Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry." -Tom Mullen
"A good marriage is a contest of generosity." -Diane Sawyer
"The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together." -Robert C. Dodds
"Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking." -Chinese Proverb
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." -Theodore Hesburgh
"What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow." -Nathaniel Hawthorne
"A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short." -Andre Maurois
"A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time." -Anne Taylor Flemming
"In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic, a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts, an enabler rather than a reformer." -H. Norman Wright and Gary Oliver
"For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow." -Rosemond Gerard
"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love." -Tom Robbins
"New love is the brightest and long love is the greatest. But revived love is the tenderest thing known on earth." -Thomas Hardy
"Make a list of ten of your spouse's faults, which, for the sake of your marriage, you will always overlook. You can live with those ten." -J & G Murphy
"You didn't learn how to play an instrument well in one night. It will take time to learn how to "make music" with your spouse too." -J & G Murphy