Marriage Advice Quotes About Your Most Important Relationship

Enjoy these great marriage advice quotes whether you are currently married or plan to marry someday.

Marriage is the ultimate commitment; any advice you can get will be helpful in this relationship.

These marriage advice quotes will offer some insight on:

• communication
• intimacy
• love and friendship

Although marriage may also be referred to as matrimony or wedlock and can slightly vary from culture to culture, it is a lifelong commitment between two people.

The ceremony that celebrates and starts the marriage is called a wedding.

Marriage is an agreement between spouses to be loyal to each other and establishes the rights between couples and their children.

A marriage is a legal contract that binds the husband and wife together.

If either party decides they do not want to continue their relationship, they will pursue the legal term called divorce.

Look at these marriage advice quotes to learn more about the ultimate union between two people.

Marriage Advice Quotes For Husbands

Check out these quotes for husbands!

1. “To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.” — Mark Twain

2. “Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.” — Harville Hendrix

3. “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” — Andre Maurois

4. “If you get a good wife, you will be happy. If you get a bad one, you will be a philosopher.” — Socrates

5. “Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.” — Joyce Brothers

6. “Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.” — Martin Luther

7. “To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.” — Fred Rogers

8. “Happy is a man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.” — Franz Schubert

9. “A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.” — Honore de Balzac

10. “Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic—you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.” — Jerry Seinfeld

Marriage Advice Quotes for Wives

Check out these great marriage quotes for wives.

11. “The grass is greener where you water it.” — Neil Barringham

12. “In every good marriage, it helps to be a little deaf.” — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

13. “True love is inexhaustible. The more you give, the more you have.” — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

14. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

15. “A great marriage isn’t something that just happens; it’s something that must be created.” — Fawn Weaver

16. “The great marriages are partnerships. It can’t be a great marriage without being a partnership.” — Helen Mirren

17. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” — Mignon McLaughlin

18. “I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect, and I loved you even more.” — Angelita Lim

19. “Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.” — Barnett Brickner

20. “A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.” — Pearl S. Buck

Funny Marriage Advice Quotes

21. “Getting married is like trading the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.” — Mae West

22. “When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.” — Prince Philip

23. “My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.” — Winston Churchill

24. “I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” — Rita Rudner

25. “Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.” — Will Ferrell

26. “Marriage is the bond between a person who never remembers anniversaries and another who never forgets them.” — Ogden Nash

27. “An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.” — Agatha Christie

28. “I married for love, but the obvious side benefit of having someone around to find my glasses cannot be ignored.” — Cameron Esposito

29. “To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up.” — Ogden

Marriage Advice quotes on pushing through the hard times

30. “A good marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” — Ruth Bell Graham

31. “Even if we disagree about everything, we can still be kind to each other.” — Mathew L Jacobson

32. “In marriage, it is never about not falling; it is always about getting back up.” — Dr. Emerson Eggerichs

33. “Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.” — Tom Mullen

34. “We’re not afraid to say we’re not perfect. We have our disagreements, but that comes along with marriage.” — Tamera Mowry

35. “A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.” — Pearl S. Buck

36. “A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.” — Dave Meurer

37. “I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.” — Carson Daly

38. “No relationship is all sunshine, but once you’ve learned how to play in the rain, you’ve discovered the secret to surviving the passing storm together.” — Happy Wives Club

39. “Marriage is meant to keep people together, not just when things are good, but particularly when they are not. That’s why we take marriage vows, not wishes.” — Ngina Otiende

Inspirational marriage advice quotes

40. “A one flesh marriage consists of a husband and wife each giving 100% rather than 50/50.” — Jolene Engle

41. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu

42. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss

43. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Helen Keller

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

45. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou

46. “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow–this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

47. “Marriage is like watching the color of leaves in the fall; ever changing and more stunningly beautiful with each passing day.” — Fawn Weaver

48. “Great marriages are contagious; if you want a great marriage, surround yourself with couples who have one.” — Mark and Laquilla Lane

49. “The difference between an ordinary marriage and an extraordinary marriage is in giving just a little extra every day, as often as possible, for as long as we both shall live.” — Fawn Weaver

50. “The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don’t find very often, then that is what love is all about.” — Bruce Forsyth

When Did Marriage Start?

Most historians agree that marriage began well before recorded history, but the earliest recorded marriage was around 2350 B.C.

Marriage began as both an act to pledge loyalty to one another and have social and Biblical acceptance for sex.

It has also acted as an alliance between families.

Marriage is the most important contract you will enter, so take advice from wise and experienced people, as shared in these Marriage Advice Quotes.

Please share these quotes with your friends and family, and share your favorites in the comments.