Favorite Quotes & Verses about
Love & Marriage
By Megan Mercer
Last Update: July 7, 2006

So many people, famous and otherwise, have written and spoken about love and marriage. Some speak of it fondly and others with spite. Some are comedic and some are cynical. Nevertheless, here are some of our favorite quotes about love & marriage...

 

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
   -- Anonymous

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
    -- Lana Turner

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
   --Mignon McLaughlin

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
   -- Socrates

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
   --Rabbi H. Schachtel

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
   --Rita Rudner

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
   -- Anonymous

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
   --Erich Fromm

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
   -- Anonymous

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
   -- Pauline Thomason

Love is patient, Love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered,
It keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects always trusts, always hopes, always preserves.
   -- I Corinthians 13

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
   -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.
   -- Cass Daley

Marriage should be a duet--when one sings, the other claps.
   --Joe Murray

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
   -- Karen Sunde

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you are wrong, admit it; whenever you are right, shut up.
   -- Ogden Nash

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship,
communion or company than a good marriage.
   -- Martin Luther

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up.
Again, if two lie together, they are warm; but how can one be warm alone?
And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him.
   -- Ecclesiastes 4:9-12