40 Funny, Happy Marriage Quotes to Last Until Death Do You Part
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
If you look up any quote about marriage, you’re certain to be reminded of one thing: Marriage is long. But it’s also happy, satisfying, soul-nourishing, restorative, and supportive. So while so many marriage quotes out there go for the easy laugh about the seeming conflicts that arise over little things (like who squeezes the toothpaste tube from the bottom and who squeezes it from the top), the truly great thinkers out are more likely to focus on the great things that can come from a true partnership. There’s the compassion you get from someone who fully understands you. There’s the feeling of yearning you get when you’re apart. There’s the blissful feeling that comes when you know your partner knows all your little foibles but loves you anyway. (And yes, there are some skirmishes about the garbage or the ideal temperature of a room, too, but you can laugh those off.)
Next time you’re writing a wedding toast, creating your marriage vows, or thinking of sending a random I-love-you note to your significant other, these funny, happy marriage quotes are just what you need to get started. Text one to your partner now, and expect some heart emojis to come back.
Mignon McLaughlin
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
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Audrey Hepburn
If I get married, I want to be very married.
Martin Luther
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
André Maurois
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
George Eliot
What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life — to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?
Franz Schubert
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
William Penn
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money virtue before beauty, the mind before the body, then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
Simone Signoret
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Ann Landers
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.
Winston Churchill
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Mark Twain
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Rita Rudner
I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Julia Child
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
Dave Meurer
A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
Benjamin Franklin
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Homer
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye-to-eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Socrates
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you will be happy. If you get a bad one, you will be a philosopher.
Fawn Weaver
Marriage is like watching the color of leaves in the fall; ever changing and more stunningly beautiful with each passing day.
William Lyon Phelps
The highest happiness on earth is marriage.
Dr. Seuss
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Marisa (she/her) has covered all things parenting, from the postpartum period through the empty nest, for Good Housekeeping since 2018; previously, she wrote about parents and families at Parents and Working Mother. She lives with her toy-collecting husband and daughter in Brooklyn, where she can be found helping out her team at bar trivia or posting about movies on Twitter and Bluesky.
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