Top 100 Relationships Marriage Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Relationships Marriage

#1. Is anyone saying same-sex couples can't love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?

Rick Santorum

#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

#3. 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

#4. If you cannot be yourself in a relationship, you no longer have one.

Shya Kane

#5. He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang.

T.C. Boyle

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Life is surreal. When you step back and really take a look at it, the irony is absolute.

Julieanne O'Connor

#9. Relationships between men and women are only about sex. The rest of the sh*t is incidental.

Chad Kultgen

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. People search the world over looking for someone to love them, when they should be searching for someone to love.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#15. In relationships... there are no failures. Just experiences.

Des Coroy

#16. 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

#17. There's more at stake from the ripples we make than simply passing through.

John Tracy Wilson

#18. Beauty will never fade away from the eyes of those who love one another.

Auliq Ice

#19. 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

#20. Forget about trying to "fix" your spouse's flaws. Instead, focus your attention on aspects and characteristics that you enjoy most.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#21. 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

#22. King of grand gesture.

Rainbow Rowell

#23. People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship.

Gary Chapman

#24. In this impersonal world of the nine-digit zip code, credit cards, and numbered bank accounts, in this world of no marriage, late marriage, and remarriage, the operative word in office relationships is 'family.

Lois Wyse

#25. For this decision, too, he had submitted to the overwhelming force of Sharon's personality, whose longings and needs seemed inalienable rights, whereas Marcus's were merely whims.

Panio Gianopoulos

#26. None of us marry perfection; we marry potential.

Robert D. Hales

#27. Marriage is the beginning of love for your spouse, not the result of it.

Shannon L. Alder

#28. Every romantic woman dreams of Willoughby. However, every wise woman's heart knows Colonel Brandon would take care of her when she was sick, love her when she was well and know her worth every day that she breathes.

Shannon L. Alder

#29. When we reach our highest potential, we will find our highest love.

Jennifer Ott

#30. Go on down to the local palm reader,
she'll spit out exactly what you feed her
because honey, you already knew
your husband was a cheater.

Casey Renee Kiser

#31. Love is supposed to lift you up, not hold you down. It is supposed to push you forward, not hold you back.

Suzy Kassem

#32. I do think that marriage can be a wonderful thing if it's the right thing for the two people involved. I believe in love - very much so - how can you not believe after you've experienced it? I believe in relationships. One day, I know I'll find the right woman and get married myself.

Michael Jackson

#33. From open sea she's chosen me
and dashed the hopes of many.
A life with her is worth the hopes
my love for her may bury.

Uzoma C. Azuonye

#34. Dating isn't a natural need; it is a social want.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#35. Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.

Frank Delaney

#36. When it comes to sex: some men treat women as objects; some women treat objects as men.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#37. But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty.

Margaret George

#38. A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover's world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian's world revolves around the world.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#39. A woman's weapon is her tongue.

Anthony Trollope

#40. Nevertheless, we cannot escape the suspicion that individuality might be inhibited by marriage, and we wonder whether people in open relationships might not really be braver than the rest - as if freedom were ultimately a matter of courage, of irreverence and honesty, of rebelliousness.

Daniel Bullen

#41. If love was absent, you would not feel disappointed; you would feel indifferent.

Staci Bartley

#42. Men marry. Women wed.

Raheel Farooq

#43. In all of your relationships, romantic or not, GIVE. Practice it. You get good at what you practice, and sometimes you even become great.

Ilya Atani

#44. A healthy marriage is the union of two already complete people who choose to invest in each other. Two people who drain each other because they have nothing to invest - only withdrawals to take from each other - make for a very unhealthy, unfulfilling relationships.

Shannon Ethridge

#45. More than just someone to lay down with, is a spirit to pray up with.

T.F. Hodge

#46. Commonsense will never come from following your heart; wisdom is only stored in the mind.

Shannon L. Alder

#47. We will all experience the judgment of others when we fall in love. Love with your whole being anyway.

Julieanne O'Connor

#48. I've had two terrific relationships, but both ended in marriage.

Jane Seymour

#49. It makes me think that a marriage of true minds - to again quote Shakespeare - is in many ways just dumb luck.

Carlene Bauer

#50. A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession.

Charles Bukowski

#51. There is so much more to marriage than who makes the money. Some of the hardest parts don't come with a paycheck.

Michelle M. Pillow

#52. At the end of the day, I just want to sit with someone I love and chat about what matters and even what doesn't.

Crystal Woods

#53. True respect means accepting someone and honoring his or her thoughts and feelings.

Chana Levitan

#54. Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.

Timothy Keller

#55. When a man's bank balance becomes too small, his woman flees. For a man to do the same, his woman's body - or vagina - has to do the opposite.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#56. The secret to a long and loving marriage is to choose, everyday, to be married.

Jacqueline Patricks

#57. The phrase *You complete me* is nonsensical. A couple is a *we* ... not a complete *me.*

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#58. You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#59. Because two people in love don't make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know the same. It's about being separate and still loving each other, being distinct from each other. One is the violin string one is the bow.

Graham Joyce

#60. God didn't design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.

Shannon L. Alder

#61. The healthiest relationships have room for both male and female strengths.

Shawn T. Smith

#62. Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#63. For her, marriage was a sweetened version of murder.

Daniel Saldana Paris

#64. Life was good. Everything was going right. It was almost scaring him because usually when things were going this well it was the calm before the storm hit.

Michelle Sutton

#65. Relationships are not additive, but multiplicative because you connect with his/her childhood experiences, past relationships, thoughts on money and more.

Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

#66. Men demand much more than you think," she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a lot of suffering over little things beyond what you think.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#67. If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada.

Mary Karr

#68. If you fall in love, make sure your landing is soft.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#69. I think many times in relationships as it escalates to marriage, what it takes to breed a marriage, is the same thing that it takes to breed a career.

Derek Luke

#70. To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#71. Once a woman goes over 25, she prioritizes 'financial security' in a potential lover. Love and good looks are just a bonus.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#72. Love is the key that opens every heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#73. Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

Oscar Wilde

#74. Humph! A text message that said, 'What's up, sexy?' You call that setting a mood? Love making takes place long before the bedroom -

N. Wood Lane

#75. Marry for love. But also choose to marry a man or woman who you love that treats you with the ultimate respect for your expression of who you are at your very core.

Julieanne O'Connor

#76. My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

Candace Bushnell

#77. It's hard to say which I like more, the perfectly happy days or the hours right after we've ended a good fight.

Crystal Woods

#78. It's so easy to get a divorce nowadays that people just jump in and out of marriage. Nobody wants to work for anything anymore. They expect everything in life to be handed to them, for everything to come easy. Well, I'll tell you something. Relationships aren't easy. They're anything but.

Steph Nuss

#79. I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a person whose patheticness you can tolerate.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#80. Don't let go of your heart-love, soul mate!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#81. When it comes to men, it's often easier done than said.

Michele Weiner-Davis

#82. No matter how many rules we make for ourselves, rules don't create godly relationships. Only leaning on our faithful Father and longing to please Him with everything we do will set the stage for a beautiful romance!

Eric Ludy

#83. Love is a flame of light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#84. It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive.

Erma Bombeck

#85. She is afraid of divorce, which will free her, as she was not enough afraid of marriage, which trapped her.

A.S. Byatt

#86. Now he must put into practice all his fine poetic thoughts about romantic love.

Philip Zaleski

#87. Breakup is hard enough to live with, why do we need the paperwork of divorce.

Nilesh Rathod

#88. I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don't know that they can be recognised as marriage.

Tony Abbott

#89. 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

#90. Chivalry in love has nothing to do with the sweetness of the appearance. It has everything to do with the tenderness of a heart determined to serve. You must not act under the impetus of charm, but out of a commitment to make someone's life the joy you want it to be.

Ravi Zacharias

#91. Let him be fifty feet away, let him not even speak to you, let him not even see you, he permeated, he prevailed, he imposed himself. He changed everything.

Virginia Woolf

#92. It was my grandmother who first told me that a woman marries a man in the belief that he'll change but he doesn't
and a man marries a woman in the belief that she won't change but she does.

James Carlos Blake

#93. He mistook my frustration for anger towards him, which seemed to be typical for us lately. The longer the distance between a correct diagnosis, the greater the silence we shared.

Tracey Berkowitz

#94. This isn't Sex and the City, and life isn't a Nicholas Sparks novel. The best kind of love is one that is calming on the spirit, easy on the heart, fulfilling and completing.

Hope Alcocer