Top 100 Marriage Best Quotes
#1. Believe me when I tell you that waking up by your side, is the best thing that could happen to me.
Auliq Ice
#2. Well,' replied Tony, 'I think [Christ's] line would be the same as it always has been - that [sex without marriage] is understandable and forgivable, but wrong to the extent that it's less than the best.
Richard Adams
#3. God knew that children grow and mature best in a stable, loving family, and this was one reason He gave marriage to us.
Billy Graham
#4. No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.
Merle Shain
#6. I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.
Suzanne Finnamore
#7. Don't forget to be your wife's best friend as well as her husband. True friendship in marriage does away with all sorts of trouble.
Blanche Ebbutt
#8. Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.
James Garner
#10. Similarly, loving spouses must repeatedly confront each other if the marriage relationship is to serve the function of promoting the spiritual growth of the partners. No marriage can be judged truly successful unless husband and wife are each other's best critics.
M. Scott Peck
#11. The New Testament views the church
rather than marriage
as the primary place where human love is best expressed and experienced.
Wesley Hill
#12. Husbands make the best kinds of heroes. - Lisa JacobsonMarriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.
Jennifer E. Smith
#13. I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm ... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.
Ethan Hawke
#14. The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.
Ann Bancroft
#15. Find an independent woman-who loves you for you and will be your best friend. I got it right the first time and was very, very lucky.
Jon Bon Jovi
#16. Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies.
Susan Sontag
#17. In most marriages, one of the couple is more in love than the other, and it's best if it's the man. The marriage will have a better chance of going the whole way.
Mary Higgins Clark
#18. During our first month in the flat, however, Mr Puri was on his best behaviour. Apart from twice proposing marriage to my wife, he behaved with perfect decorum.
William Dalrymple
#19. Best (male-female) friends hardly differ from lovers, but not too many lovers are best friends.
It's just ironical that you are in love and want to spend the rest of your life with someone who is not good enough to be your best friend.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#20. I ask you to pass through life at my side - to be my second self, and best earthly companion.
Charlotte Bronte
#21. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.
Irving Stone
#22. The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best that he possesses.
Georges Duhamel
#23. I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.
Michele Bachmann
#24. Marriage is like pantyhose. It all depends on what you put into it.
Phyllis Schlafly
#26. We all get hurt at some point in a relationship, Lucas. It happens a lot in a marriage. Even the best ones have someone getting hurt at one point or another. The key is to apologize when you do hurt her and learn from your mistakes. No one expects you to be perfect.
Samantha Chase
#27. In the best of all possible worlds, childbirth enriches a marriage. In the worst, it harms it. No matter how good their marriage is, most couples find that having a baby challenges their relationship.
Jean Marzollo
#28. Don't overreact. For example, if someone inadvertently embarrasses you in public, don't let anger get the best of you. It really isn't necessary to frame the person for a murder he/she didn't commit. Wouldn't it be enough to simply break up his or her marriage instead?
Anthony Rubino Jr.
#29. Motherhood is a blissful chain ... I have a mother - my precious gift ... I am a mother - the best of my kind!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#30. You become a man when you marry not just for love but to be a partner with your wife. To be the best man you can be with her, and when you fall short, to admit your shortcomings and to constantly strive to be a great man to your wife.
Carew Papritz
#31. The best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There was even a kind of necessary tension, a certain tautness between the partners that gave the marriage strength, like the tautness of a full sail. You went forward on it.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#32. You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.
Viggo Mortensen
#33. Being in war together may be what keeps us from being at war with each other. Rather than neglecting the battle to work on your marriage, maybe the best thing for your marriage is to enter the battlefield together.
Francis Chan
#34. Marriage is not so easy and, many a time, it is best to hold your silence if you don't want fights,
Preeti Shenoy
#35. It was crazy: marriage. You gave your whole life, your whole happiness, over to one other human being, even the best of them inept at times, prone to reach for some other fulfillment, some other pleasure.
Anne Taylor Fleming
#37. The best way to treat your wife is to treat her as Jesus would. The worst way to treat your wife is to treat her as the devil would.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#38. No happy marriage was, in his estimation, ever based on thoughtless, automatic untruths and exclusions. And the best way to make someone unhappy, if not downright unbalanced, is to tell her that what she sees with her own eyes is not there at all.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#39. 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
#40. Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!
Anais Nin
#41. How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask.
"Keep going," Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that.
Suzanne Finnamore
#42. I was in Hollywood. It's the mythology heart. It's where all the European films came in the '30s and '40s. The marriage between Europe and Hollywood has always been the best when it works.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#43. I don't know where I'd be without you here with me. Life with you makes perfect sense. You're my best friend.
Tim McGraw
#44. It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.
Sophocles
#45. Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
Joseph Barth
#46. If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.
Shannon L. Alder
#47. Warren Beatty once quipped that the best time for a wedding was noon, because if the marriage didn't work, you hadn't screwed up the entire day.
Peter Biskind
#48. Falling in love is a series of moments in which the ordinary becomes extraordinary. Those moments are not continuous, but the sense of union with another person is just about the best thing there is.
Caroline Kennedy
#49. Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you.
Shannon L. Alder
#50. They would all reach the next wells alive, said Master Suresh, so long as grown men didn't sit and weep, boo hoo hoo like some sad whore, her six best boys lost this week to marriage. We must do now as she did then: dry the tears, and hustle!
Kai Ashante Wilson
#51. 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
#52. Marriage cannot thrive on left-over attention, it has to get your best effort!
Ngina Otiende
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#61. Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
Gloria Steinem
#62. Love the fact we are not just married but we are best friends.
Amanda Penland
#63. Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life.
Muriel Spark
#64. 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
#65. Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.
Randy Thornhorn
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. I have thrust myself into this maze,
Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.
William Shakespeare
#73. 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
#74. Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.
Cullen Hightower
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. Maybe the best thing we can do for our spouses is give them permission to forgive themselves.
Justin Davis
#79. True love is wanting to spend the rest of your life with someone you would sometimes also like to strangle.
Crystal Woods
#80. The best by far is to marry in one's own rank.
Aeschylus
#81. The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.
John Wilmot
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
Thornton Wilder
#87. 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
#88. A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.
Moliere
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. The best thing to ever happen to marriage is the pause-live-TV button.
Rick Reilly
#97. 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
#98. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie
#99. I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.
Jim Talent
#100. 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
