Marriage is one of the most beautiful and meaningful experiences in life. It is a bond between two people who vow to love, support and cherish each other for the rest of their lives. Marriage is not just about the ceremony, it’s about the journey that two individuals embark on together. Throughout this journey, there are moments of laughter, tears, joy, and challenges. To celebrate this beautiful bond, we have compiled a collection of marriage quotes that capture the essence of this journey and the love that fuels it. These quotes will remind you of the power of love, the importance of commitment and the beauty of marriage.
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Inspiring Quotes About Marriage
1. “Marriage can wait, education cannot.” ― Khaled Hosseini
2. “I don’t want to be married just to be married. I can’t think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can’t talk to, or worse, someone I can’t be silent with.” ― Mary Ann Shaffer
3. “I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.” ― Martha Gellhorn
4. “You know it’s never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It’s always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.” ― Jodi Picoult
5. “If I get married, I want to be very married.” ― Audrey Hepburn
6. “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.” ― Socrates
7. “Marriage is a fine institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.” ― Mae West
8. “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
9. “Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.” ― Oscar Wilde
10. “A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.” ― Dave Meurer
11. “The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
12. “People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.” ― Thomas Hardy
13. “A short story is a love affair, and a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.” ― Lorrie Moore
14. “Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.” ― Marilyn Monroe
15. “To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up.” ― Ogden Nash
Quotes on the Bond of Marriage
16. “Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.” ― Mae West
17. “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
18. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” ― John Steinbeck
19. “A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.” ― Anne Lamott
20. “When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.” ― William Shakespeare
21. “The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It’s followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.” ― Nora Ephron
22. “Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties” ― Arthur Schopenhauer
23. “Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.” ― P.G. Wodehouse
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