Quotes on Inspirational Marriage

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.

Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.

I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

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

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

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

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

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.

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Growing marriages aren't determined by how much you have in common but by how graciously you deal with your differences.

Successful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, non-programmed. It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along. As a drop of oil on the sea, you must float, using intellect and compassion to ride the waves.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

If I get married, I want to be very married.