Top 100 Best Marriage Quotes
#1. Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.
Cullen Hightower
#2. Unattended hurt, anger, and bitterness can destroy even the best marriage. Lean honestly into every hard place, each tender spot, because truthfulness hurts for a minute but silence is the kill shot.
Jen Hatmaker
#3. It's the best marriage of songs and production. But I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova.
Joey Santiago
#4. My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
Maeve Binchy
#5. The best marriage in the world is two servants in love. The worst marriage in the world is two masters in love.
Jimmy Evans
#6. No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.
Lisa Kleypas
#7. The next thing I want to say is that God's way is always the best way. It's the only way, really. And God's word clearly says he created sex for one man and one woman to share only inside the commitment of marriage
Robin Jones Gunn
#8. I had complete faith that this was a man who would keep his promises, who would always be there when I needed him, who would always have my best interests at heart. Together we would be able to face anything in life.
Rosemary K. West
#9. When I think of my best days as husband, I find I was doing what Regi said in this book. What Radical Husbands Do is a practical book I can safely give any man who is struggling in his marriage.
Joel Manby
#10. Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us.
Jon Heder
#11. The First and Worst sin couples commit against one another is not adultery but Negligence because it's Negligence that breeds adultery..watch it couples , do not hold back in giving that care and attention.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#12. As a result, your subconscious mind will do its best to keep you from a successful marriage, because you have a disagreement between your consciousness and sub consciousness
Sunday Adelaja
#13. I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.
Len Goodman
#14. The marriage between the fantasy and the Westerns is that thing of, if people think you're the best gunslinger around, they're going to come looking for you.
Kieran Bew
#15. The best part of being married is that now when we walk down the street, people won't just see two guys and a kid, they'll have to see a FAMILY.
Patricia A. Gozemba
#16. I have thrust myself into this maze,
Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.
William Shakespeare
#17. The widely held belief that the heterosexual nuclear family is best for children has long been used as a smoke screen for homophobia and as a talking point to quash marriage-equality efforts.
Jessica Valenti
#18. I had 53 years of happy marriage and two daughters. These were the best things that happened in my life.
Henry Allingham
#19. One who no longer wishes to laugh had best marry in France; they will soon find that it is no laughing matter.
Elisabeth Charlotte D'Orleans
#21. The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is that marriage is a maze into which we wander - a maze that is best got through with a great companion.
Robert Fulghum
#22. She said she wanted my best line tomorrow after the show, and now I knew what it was going to be.
Cora Carmack
#23. When Margaret and I look back over forty years of marriage, we always remember the eight we spent home-schooling as the best years of our lives.
Renny Scott
#24. Marriage functions best when both partners remain somewhat unmarried.
Claudia Cardinale
#25. Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
Coretta Scott King
#26. Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.
Randy Thornhorn
#27. A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#28. I want a relationship where we talk like best friends, play like kids, argue like husband and wife, and protect each other like siblings.
Anonymous
#29. I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.
Faith Evans
#30. Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true.
Marianne Williamson
#31. Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life.
Muriel Spark
#32. Love the fact we are not just married but we are best friends.
Amanda Penland
#33. Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
Gloria Steinem
#35. Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You will be his wife; that is to be his servant, his possession. He will be your master. You had better please him.
Philippa Gregory
#36. He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.
Nicholas Sparks
#37. A good marriage is at least 80% good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
Nanette Newman
#38. Some days, the music is not in tune, but it's always a song worth singing.
That's the best description of a good marriage I've ever heard ...
Nora Roberts
#39. The bottom line with men is: they feel best about themselves when they are solving problems. Therefore, they spend most of their time doing what they are best at while they attempt to ignore the things which cause them to feel deficient.
Bill Farrel
#40. I like this marriage thing, because it's the best of all of us. We get to be the whole meal. The appetizer, the entree, the luxurious dessert ...
And yes, the peas and the carrots.
Cassie Mae
#41. I've won his heart, but it's like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently locked. He wants to shield me from all unpleasantness. And it's not really marriage - not like the marriage you have with Cam - until he's willing to share the worst of himself as well as the best of himself.
Lisa Kleypas
#42. Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
Samuel Johnson
#43. Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
Nick Cave
#44. The best thing about flying first class ... was that you could be as nutty as a fruitcake and were still treated like the Queen of Sheba.
Sarah-Kate Lynch
#45. In fact, we'd discussed marriage on several occasions just because we seemed to get along so well, but after thinking long and hard, I realized it was not in my best interest to waste my first marriage on a gay man.
Chelsea Handler
#46. I think of marriage differently. A Companionship of like minds. A tie that binds, yes, but in the binding comes strength. A lifetime with your dearest friend as your truest and best companion. That is what it can be. I believe that.
Julianne Donaldson
#47. I believe in finding a man who can be your best friend, because once the lust fades, friendship is what will hold the foundation of your marriage together.
Nicole Simone
#48. ... this film taps perfectly into the viewers' sense of the world. It was a big, big hit, and one of Hollywood's best-remembered marriage movies, although by grounding itself in trendy political issues, it avoids ordinary day-to-day marital problems. Its bottom line is, however, marry your own kind.
Jeanine Basinger
#49. Marriage cannot thrive on left-over attention, it has to get your best effort!
Ngina Otiende
#50. Marriage can be expensive, and if I lose millions then it'll be the best millions I've spent.
Seth Rogen
#51. He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.
H.L. Mencken
#52. What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.
Charlotte Bronte
#53. I guess the best thing about marriage is the fact you've got the coolest partner you can imagine by your side for all the things you're going to face in your life. So far, Juliet's been there for me. She's been good for my voice, good for my everything.
Julian Casablancas
#54. I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest
blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.
Charlotte Bronte
#55. So hey, once Joshua heals your brother, you want to go do something, get some pomegranate juice, a falafel,or get married or something?
Christopher Moore
#56. My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.
Carnie Wilson
#57. Life after death. Sex after marriage. While claims are made for the existence of both, the sources are oftentimes unreliable and the evidence, at best, anecdotal.
J.D. Lexx
#58. I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.
Jim Talent
#59. Man was not intended to live alone ... marriage is the best cure for that wretched lingering over one's work. I think I must feel more settled than you all. I would immensely like to see you all married like myself and anchored.
John Everett Millais
#60. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie
#61. Watching his sister be a mother was perhaps the greatest argument for marriage. And watching his niece spit up on her was perhaps the best argument against procreation.
Kate Noble
#62. I think the best day will be when we no longer talk about being gay or straight ... It's not a gay wedding, it's just a wedding ... It's not a gay marriage, it's just a marriage.
Pink
#63. If there is "better", then there is a "best". If there is "half", then there is a "complete". Far more than being a "better half", you can be a "best complete"; like a word/phrase that beautifies and gives meaning to a sentence when it is added.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#64. I think that the marriage of academic medical centers and academicians with the private sector is a very, is a marriage made in heaven because it's the best way to get basic discoveries from the laboratory into new therapeutics for our patients.
Laurie Glimcher
#65. This was historical revisionism at its best, and hadn't Sam always specialized in that, hadn't she always said she wished she had a permanent film rolling of their life so she could go back and prove that, yes, he did so say that thing he now denied?
Liane Moriarty
#66. The best thing to ever happen to marriage is the pause-live-TV button.
Rick Reilly
#67. A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#68. That's what marriage was at its best: You didn't have to tell your partner to look out, that you were falling. They were just there to catch you.
Jamie Brenner
#69. Trust is the bedrock of intimacy; it is the ability to rely on someone because you believe that he or she has your best interest at heart.
Chana Levitan
#70. Some of the best advice I got from a close friend is marriage is always looked at from the world as 50/50 as to working together to make that 100 percent.
Brian Littrell
#71. Sometimes I look at him
and I want to get on my best heels.
Sometimes I look at him
and I want to be a lesbian.
He says that I'm too moody.
Casey Renee Kiser
#72. In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.
Ariel Gore
#73. Everyone said they married their soul mate. Not only could I say that, but today, I was truly marrying my best friend"
- Bethany Marie Casse
Mia Kayla
#74. Marriage, historically, has been one of the best ways for men to assert, reproduce, and pass on their power, to retain their control.
Rebecca Traister
#75. I'm deeply in love with my wife, and she's my best friend, and yet we share different viewpoints of life, which I think is one of the things that holds our marriage together. She came from Texas, and she has an optimistic view of life. I came from Detroit and have a very pessimistic view.
David Small
#76. In a marriage, words are like rain. And the land of a marriage is filled with dry washes and arroyos that can become raging rivers in almost the wink of an eye. The therapists believe in talk, but most of them are either divorced or queer. It's silence that is a marriage's best friend.
Stephen King
#77. I'm very happy with the outcome of the vote. I totally, totally support equal marriage in law. I don't want anybody in society feeling second best. I don't believe that being gay is a sin.
Stephen Crabb
#78. Mercifully, I was at that age when reading was still a passion and thus, save for a happy marriage, the best state possible in which to keep absolute loneliness at bay. I could not have made it through those evenings otherwise.
William Styron
#79. A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.
Robert Southey
#80. Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.
Gerald Brenan
#81. A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.
Moliere
#82. The best gift you can give to your kids is a happy marriage.
Ricky Shetty
#83. You were my strength when I was weak; you were my voice when I couldn't speak; you were my eyes when I couldn't see; you saw the best there was in me; lifted me up when I couldn't reach, you gave me faith cuz you believed. I'm everything I am because you loved me.
Celine Dion
#84. Only marriage combines all three forms of companionship - spouse is family, best friend, and permanent companion. This is why it is widely held that while the death of a child is the most painful loss, the death of a spouse is the most disorienting one.
Dennis Prager
#85. The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
Thornton Wilder
#86. The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.
Nancy E. Turner
#87. A virgin is a good bride. A righteous virgin is the best bride.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#88. I think the overriding message would be that love is serious business. True, down-to-the-crap love is not for the shallow or faint of heart. People are messy. Marriage is messy. You have to bring your best self to the game despite your limitations.
Ka Hancock
#89. For marriage the best man is the man within oneself. Most women need to develop their own 'masculine' qualities of independence, pride, courage and open sexuality.
Glenda Jackson
#91. The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.
John Wilmot
#92. I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - my male friends in particular. And I started wondering if my wife, who was certainly my best friend, supplanted those relationships.
Matthew Weiner
#93. Always strive to give your spouse the very best of yourself; not what's leftover after you have given your best to everyone else.
Dave Willis
#94. He knew himself well enough to know his own faults. Impatient and judgmental and stubborn and often too quick to act: he would try never to crush her, never to overwhelm her or bend her to his will, but if she did not demand only the best from him, it would happen. It might happen. Possibly.
Meredith Duran
#95. The best by far is to marry in one's own rank.
Aeschylus
#96. Love's about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. Its about looking in the eyes of your wife and knowing all the way to your bones that she's simply the best person you've ever known.
Julia Quinn
#97. True love is wanting to spend the rest of your life with someone you would sometimes also like to strangle.
Crystal Woods
#99. Maybe the best thing we can do for our spouses is give them permission to forgive themselves.
Justin Davis
#100. I've interviewed presidents and royalty, rock stars and movie stars, famous generals and captains of industry; I've had front row seats at Super Bowls, World Series, and Olympic Games; my books have been on best-seller lists, and my marriage is a long-running success.
Tom Brokaw
