Top 100 Marriage Relationships Quotes
#1. The decisions we make regarding vocation, child rearing, education, civic and church involvement, and other areas of life create changes that affect our marriage relationships. The manner in which couples process these changes will determine the quality of their marriages.
Gary Chapman
#2. Marriage is what you make of it, and God has many versions of what that looks like based on what different souls need, in order to grow.
Shannon L. Alder
#4. A relationship is a journey and many would think the destination is marriage. Well, no it is not! Marriage is another phase of the journey.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#5. Give me Pablo Neruda, picnic beneath a full moon & iridescent stars, black olives, cherries, dark things, canoe on a river ... that's romance.
Brandi L. Bates
#6. And so I found myself in a kind of love lock: pining for the wrong person, grieving beside a woman whose body I can't touch, being given a second chance I can't find the clarity to take.
Courtney Maum
#7. I looked up and she said, "You have to believe I did everything a reasonable person would do. Maybe I didn't reach my hands into toilet water, but I did everything else I could.
Charlie Close
#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. If you cannot be yourself in a relationship, you no longer have one.
Shya Kane
#10. 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
#12. Some marry because they are in love. Others marry to have sex ... without the guilt.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#13. He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang.
T.C. Boyle
#14. The destination is not the journey. The destination is the person you choose to enjoy the journey with.
Shannon L. Alder
#15. A whole woman will always attract a whole man. And when they touch, they will fuse to create a whole marriage. Ultimately, when the time is right, they will produce whole children.
T.D. Jakes
#17. Marriage,love and commitment does not give a man permission to act like Julius Caesar by pushing his partner into sexual promiscuity like a concubine for his own sexual pleasures.
Sheree' Griffin
#18. Strategic partnership is the truest foundation for marriage and intimacy. Strategic thinking does not assume atomistic individuals; indeed, Austen argues that strategic thinking in concert forms the basis of the closest human relationships.
Michael Suk-Young Chwe
#19. 12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#20. The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done such a marvelous job of debasing marriage on their own all these many years.
John Ridley
#22. Whether idyllic or defective, relationships are the fabric of life.
John Tracy Wilson
#23. Gay and lesbian relationships operate on essentially the same principles as heterosexual relationships
John M. Gottman
#24. Life is surreal. When you step back and really take a look at it, the irony is absolute.
Julieanne O'Connor
#25. Relationships between men and women are only about sex. The rest of the sh*t is incidental.
Chad Kultgen
#26. [S]he'd realized that he had loved her only because she belonged to him.
Lauren Oliver
#27. A broke man's lover doesn't feel 'loved' on her Birthday, Christmas, and, on Valentine's Day.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#28. When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him; they're concerned about their daughter's tummy.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#29. Applaud to those who withstand the shards of compromise. May laurel leaves sit on your head, and life-long pride be yours for the taking.
Popo Santos
#30. I wrote this about you, about our love, our story. And I feel so damn lucky that others in this world, strangers in other parts, can steal a piece of what we have and feel so lucky too.
Crystal Woods
#31. Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it's still the eyes we look at, isn't it? That's where we found the other person, and find them still.
Julian Barnes
#32. God's true love pretty much nullifies dating as we know it ...
It seems that dating as we have come to know it doesn't really prepare us for marriage; instead it can be a training ground for divorce. We cannot practice life-long commitment in a series of short-term relationships.
Joshua Harris
#33. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative. Imaginative people fidget with ideas, including the idea of a relationship. If they're wordsmiths like us, they fidget a lot in words.
Diane Ackerman
#34. Marriage is not difficult ... It's dealing with the other person that makes it difficult ...
K.j. Force
#35. Love is giving up control. It's surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two - love and controlling power over the other person - are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.
Rob Bell
#36. Marriage is not 50-50. Divorce is 50-50. Marriage has to be 100-100. It isn't dividing everything in half, but giving everything you've got!
Dave Willis
#37. Choosing a mate is not a matter of can they do the job, rather will they. A partner of "potential" doesn't make for a happy marriage. Their actions have to be in line with your needs.
Shannon L. Alder
#38. Katherine feels that she must have learned something about marriage from being married before that is now working to her benefit. However, she doesn't know quite what it is, or how, actually, it works.
Joy Williams
#39. The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes.
Pawan Mishra
#40. Ariadne made an impression on you, and that's great. But life is not literature. Sooner or later, the spell wears off, the romantic feelings disappear, and you're left watching somebody's body disintegrate. You start with a love story, you end up manacled to an hourglass, watching the sands run out.
Paul Murray
#41. Your skin reminds me of everything beautiful I've ever loved ...
how the moon gets jealous at how you mock her crescent figure with the shape of your mouth ...
echo of unborn galaxies bounce forth through your vocal chords ...
Brandi L. Bates
#42. Never give a lousy person the opportunity to create lousy babies.
Roberto Hogue
#43. Don't date anyone you can't see yourself marrying.
Turcois Ominek
#44. If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one.
Tamora Pierce
#45. It may be our idealization of interpersonal relationships in the West that causes marriage, supposedly the most intimate tie, to be so unstable. If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
Anthony Storr
#46. People are meant to go through life two by two. 'Tain't natural to be lonesome.
Thornton Wilder
#47. God lures us into marriage through love and sex and loneliness, or simply the fact that someone finally paid attention - all those reasons that you got married in the first place. It doesn't really matter, he'll do whatever it takes. He lures us into marriage and then he uses it to transform us.
John Eldredge
#48. Whilst lovers: to control her man, a woman uses (the man's access to) her vagina. When ex-lovers: she uses (the man's access to) their kids.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#49. Unfortunately, he still hadn't asked for my number, or a date, or my hand in marriage, and my drink was getting low.
Kimberly Novosel
#50. People search the world over looking for someone to love them, when they should be searching for someone to love.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#51. I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is thievery of the greatest sort.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#53. If all I have to do is remain awake to be considered romantic, than I can promise you a great deal of romance in our marriage.
Sherry Thomas
#55. Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#56. You lose a child and you do understand each other's grief at first, but if you get out of step with each other, it's all over. Suddenly each of you is alone.
Alison Bruce
#57. In real life, couples bond and war over a million different things. The causes of divorce are like beautiful, unique snowflakes.
Howard Mittelmark
#59. In relationships... there are no failures. Just experiences.
Des Coroy
#60. A wife's loyalty is tested when her husband has nothing. A husband's loyalty is tested when he has everything.
Habeeb Akande
#61. I do find that humor helps in relationships. It certainly helps in my marriage now because I'm a very, very fallible person. And if I wasn't funny I'd be kicked right out the door.
Robert Mankoff
#62. Relationships are such that if one person changes, the relationship changes.
Michele Weiner-Davis
#63. There's more at stake from the ripples we make than simply passing through.
John Tracy Wilson
#64. Getting married is easy, having sex is easier, but findings someone who can stimulate your mind and make love to your soul, that is rare.
Habeeb Akande
#65. Marriage is an intimate relationship between two people. It is a bad idea to involve a third party.
Amy Dickinson
#66. Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
Gayle Roper
#67. In the beginning Dave and Marlene's relationship had been fantastic. The sex was amazing. There were other good things too of course, but Dave couldn't always remember exactly what they were. But the sex had been off the scale.
Jackson Radcliffe
#68. Emerson is a remarkable person, considering that he is a man. Which is not saying a great deal.
Elizabeth Peters
#70. Beauty will never fade away from the eyes of those who love one another.
Auliq Ice
#71. Divorce is not always a doorway to happiness. The same can be said about marriage.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#72. Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again.
H.W. Brands
#73. A wedding is a ceremony men fund with money they know they don't have ... to prove the love they think they have.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#74. Marriage," she said quietly, "is the most expensive ticket to nowhere
Aryn Kyle
#75. The more interest you show in your spouse, the more interest your spouse will show in you.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#76. I was in a marriage, and we didn't make it. So my hope is, through my music, I can help heal some relationships that may be headed in that direction.
Fred Hammond
#78. I'm done with men ... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
Halle Berry
#79. Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
Henny Youngman
#80. He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how often he disappointed her in the big things. It was never intentional. They simply had very different notions of what ought to take up most space in life.
J.K. Rowling
#81. Thank you for being you ... for sharing your love with me ... for inspiring me to accept myself ... for helping me see the unique beauty in imperfection ... for showing me that love is something you do; something not just to be said, but also to be shown.
Steve Maraboli
#82. Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#85. To build a respectful, kind and loving relationship, begin by being respectful, kind and loving to yourself
Shya Kane
#86. He said he loved more than any other women he's ever loved and I had a black eye to prove it.
Crystal Woods
#88. Every kind of relationship needs encouragement from both parties. Be it marriage, dating, friendship, enmity etc.
Nike Thaddeus
#89. Let's not forget it's you and me vs. the problem ... NOT you vs. me.
Steve Maraboli
#90. In its highest form, not judging is the ultimate act of forgiveness.
John Kuypers
#91. So I'll be your queen if you'll be my king,
My knight to defend my claimed heart.
I need no crown, just your last name and a ring
And the promise you'll never depart.
Phar West Nagle
#92. Relationships take skill, not perfection or luck!
Staci Bartley
#93. Forget about trying to "fix" your spouse's flaws. Instead, focus your attention on aspects and characteristics that you enjoy most.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#94. Darling, I would follow you through the blackest midnight - just not without my trousers!
Seth Adam Smith
#95. Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.
Emily Giffin
#96. Truth be told, many couples spend more time planning the wedding and the honeymoon than they do preparing for the marriage.
Carlos Wallace
#97. Women who say that they have met the most amazing guy in the world are only saying that because they haven't lived with them yet.
Heather Chapple
#99. The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.
Alessandra Torre
#100. Perhaps she would never really know him. A year and a half ago that though would have been unbearable to her, but now she had learnt to live with uncertainty, even to love it.
Daisy Goodwin
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