We’ve collected the twenty best quotes about being married for your enjoyment and inspiration.
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”
— Ruth Bell Graham
“Happiness [is] only real when shared.”
— Jon Krakauer
“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”
— Nicholas Sparks
“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.”
— Albert Einstein
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
— Mignon McLaughlin
“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined… to strengthen each other… to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”
— George Eliot
“No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God!”
— T.D. Jakes
“Love is often the fruit of marriage.”
— Moliere
“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he’s not the man she married?”
— Barbra Streisand
“I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
— Rita Rudner
“Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There’s no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.”
— Groucho Marx
“To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up.”
— Ogden Nash
“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
“One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.”
— Judith Viorst
