Looking to add a dose of romantic inspiration to your wedding day? Check out 43 marriage quotes that could work perfectly for your celebration! Whether you’re after a poem, some marriage advice or words on love from your favourite movie, you’ll find a quote that fits below.

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Love life quotes

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

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness–and call it love–true love.”
– Robert Fulghum

Funny marriage quotes

“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

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

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

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Funny wedding quotes

“You know you are in love when the two of you can go grocery shopping together.” — Woody Harrelson

“Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.” — Carroll Bryant

Short quotes about love and marriage

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

“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – Arrigo Boito

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau

Love and marriage quotes

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

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

Love quote from the movie, “Shall We Dance?”

“We need a witness to our lives. There’s a billion people on the planet… I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you’re promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things… all of it, all of the time, every day. You’re saying, ‘Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go unwitnessed because I will be your witness.'” – Shall We Dance?

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Funny movie love quotes

“The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly who you are: good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you. The right person is still going to think the sun shines out of your ass. That’s the kind of person that’s worth sticking with.” — Juno

“Look, you want to know what marriage is really like? Fine. You wake up, she’s there. You come back from work, she’s there. You fall asleep, she’s there. You eat dinner, she’s there. You know? I mean, I know that sounds like a bad thing, but it’s not.” —Ray Romano, Everybody Loves Raymond

Famous movie quote on love

“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” —Meg Ryan, When Harry Met Sally

Television and movie quotes about love

“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” – Arwen, The Fellowship of the Ring

“But the thing is this, after a while, you just want to be with the one that makes you laugh.” — Sex and the City

“I’m also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.” – Notting Hill 

“Our love is like the wind, I can’t see it, but I can feel it.” — Landon, A Walk To Remember

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Marriage quotes from literature

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.” – William Shakespeare

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë

“Come, let’s be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.” – Charles Dickens

“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Marriage quotes with advice for the newlyweds

“This is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible beings who do not run away from life.” —Paul Tournier

“The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. A mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.” —Fawn Weaver

“Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day.” —Barbara De Angelis

Happy and fun relationship quote

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

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Musical quotes about love

“When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.” – John Lennon

“But still I can’t help from hoping to find someone to talk to who likes the way I am. Someone who when he sees me, wants to again.” — Waitress

“Love is a friendship set to music.” – Joseph Campbell

Marriage is hard quotes

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

“There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?” —Marry Oliver

Marriage quotes about life

“When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there.” —Julia Roberts

“Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.” —Sam Levenson

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The secret to marriage quotes

“The secret is that you just take care of each other and admire each other and support each other and you get that back … If Jeffrey and I disagree on something, he always agrees with me!” —Ina Garten

“The secret to a good marriage is to be a little deaf.” —Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Marriage quotes from poetry

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you directly without problems or pride: I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love, except in this form in which I am not nor are you, so close that your hand upon my chest is mine, so close that your eyes close with my dreams.” —Pablo Neruda

“If I had a flower for every time thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” —Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe

True love marriage quotes

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Elizabeth Browning

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert Heinlein