If you just got engaged, you might feel ready to shout it from the rooftop, let alone announce it online. And nothing gets better with a beautiful picture than an equally gorgeous engagement quote in the caption.
Over the next few months you may also be looking for prose to zhuzh all warranties that accompany a marriage: Consider booking dates, wedding invitations, programs, ceremony readings, a website and more. (By the way, the shorter it is love quotes are also perfect when you want to send a romantic message to your new fiancé.)
Whether you like song lyrics or Shakespeare, we have plenty of eloquent sayings related to marriage quote to stimulate your creativity.
1. I wouldn’t want any other companion in the world but you. — William Shakespeare, The Tempest
2. May you live all the days of your life.—Irish Blessing
3. [My mother-in-law] took me aside [on my wedding day] and said she wanted to tell me the secret to a happy marriage, and I said I’d be happy to hear it…and she said, “It helps, sometimes, to be a little deaf. —Ruth Bader Ginsburg
4. Grow old with me! The best is yet to come, the last of life, for which the first was made. —Robert Browning, “Rabbi Ben Ezra”
5. The first important thing to remember about marriage is that it requires commitment. The second important thing to remember about marriage is that so is madness. — Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller, The Five-Year Engagement
6. Before this moment, you have been many things to each other: acquaintance, friend, companion, lover, dance partner and even teacher, because you have learned a lot from each other in recent years . Now you will say a few words that will take you across a threshold of life, and things will not be quite the same between you. – Robert Fulghum, From Beginning to End: The Rituals of Our Lives
7. There is an extraordinary energy that becomes available when two people in love literally step into a sacred union. – Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway, “The Goddess of Marriage”
8. Today let this light bless you / With these friends let it bless you / With the scent of snow and lavender bless you / May the vow of this day hold wild and fully / Spoken and silent you surprise inside your ears / Sleeping and waking, unfolds in your eyes / May its ferocity and tenderness hold you / May its immensity unfold in all your days. — Jane Hirshfield, A Blessing for a Marriage
9. The best proof of love is trust.—Joyce Brothers
10. Marry me a little, / Love me just enough. / Warm and sweet and easy, / Just the simple stuff. / Keep a tender distance / Then we’ll both be free. / That’s how it should be. – Stephen Sondheim, “Marry Me a Little” (from Marry Me a Little)
11. Light, so low on the earth, / You send lightning to the sun. / Behold love’s golden end, / All my courtesy is over.—Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Marriage Morning”
12. You took the time to memorize me / My fears, hopes and dreams / I just like spending time with you / All the time / All those times you didn’t leave / It came to me On Mind / I’d Like to Date You / For All My Life – Taylor Swift, “Stay”
13. I have waited for this occasion for more than half a century to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and eternal love. – Gabriel García Márquez, “Love in the Time of Cholera”
14. You lift me up, and I will lift you up, and we will go up together. – Quaker proverb
15. From the tree of life I just picked myself a plum / You came and it all started humming / It’s still a pretty good bet / The best is yet to come – Carolyn Leigh, “The best is yet to come”
16. Love one another, but do not make a bond / of love: / Rather let it be a moving sea between / the shores of your souls. – Kahil Gibran, “On Marriage”
17. I advise anyone getting married to see the other partner first when drunk. – Muriel Spark, “A Cry Away From Kensington”
18. Lucky I’m in love with my best friend / Lucky to have been where I was / Lucky to be back home.—Jason Mraz, Timothy James Fagan and Caillat Colbie, “Lucky”
19. You can transmute love, ignore it, confuse it, but you can never remove it from you. I know from experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. – EM Forster, “A Room with a View”
20. For you I’d wait until the kingdom come / Until my days, my days are done / And say you’ll come set me free / Just say you’ll wait, you’ll wait for me. – Chris Martin and others, “‘Til Kingdom Come”
21. Love protects against the cold better than a coat. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Spanish Student”
22. How much do I love you? / Go ask the sea depths / How many rare pearls are there / In its coral caves. – Mary Ashley Townsend, “How much do you love me? Listed to whoever asked the question”
23. Love between humans is what nails us to this earth. – Ann Patchett, This is the story of a happy marriage
24. And all along I believed, I would find you / Time brought your heart to me, I loved you for a thousand years / I’ll love you another thousand years. – David Hodges and Christina Perri, “A Thousand Years”
25. For both of us, home isn’t a place, it’s a person. And we are finally home. — Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
26. Being married is like having someone around you all the time. It seems unlimited, not limited. — Gloria Steinem
27. Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It’s a long, complex and intimate dance, and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. — Amy Bloom
28. Let’s stick together / Love you if, if / Times are good or bad, happy or sad. — Willie Mitchell, Al Green and Al Jackson, “Let’s Stick Together”
29. I married for love. but the obvious side benefit of having someone around to find my glasses cannot be ignored. —Cameron Esposito
30. All you need in the world is love and laughter. That’s all we need. Have love in one hand and laughter in the other. -August Wilson, “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone”
31. Take me in your loving arms / Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars / Oh darling, place your head on my beating heart / I think out loud / That maybe we found love where we are. – Amy Wadge and Ed Sheeran, “Thinking Out Loud”
32. One of the touchstones of marriage is security, and nothing makes you feel more secure than knowing exactly what another person is going to say or do at any given time. — Anna Quindlen, Living Out Loud
33. I like being married. It’s so great to find that special someone you want to annoy for the rest of your life. —Rita Rudner
34. There is within each of us, I believe, a deep and holy hunger for sacred union. — Sue Patton Thoele, Heart-Centered Marriage
35. Marriage is about working through the images and ideas of your imagination and your dreams. – Marcus Small, “Get Married, Stay Married”
36. Look around, look around how lucky we are / To be alive right now. – Lin Manuel-Miranda, “That Would Be Enough” (from Hamilton: An American Musical)
37. You have become mine forever. Yes, we have become partners. I have become yours. Now I can’t live without you anymore. Don’t live without me. Let’s share the joys. We are word and meaning, united. – Hindu wedding vows
38. What is greater for two human souls than to feel united to strengthen each other in all work, to serve each other in all pain, to share with each other in all joy, to be one with another? the other in mute and unspoken memories? —George Eliot, “Adam Bede”
39. We find rest with those we love and we offer a place of rest within ourselves to those who love us. — St. Bernard of Clairvaux
40. You are my life… My yesterday, my today and all my tomorrows. —Annemie Byleveld, Crystal Falls
41. I couldn’t tell fact from fiction / or if my dream was true / The only sure prediction / in this whole world was you.—Maya Angelou, “Senses of Insecurity”
42. Love, love, love / Makes you walk on air. – Langston Hughes, “Love Is Like Whiskey”
43. Love, let your music be mine / Sing what I harmonize / Let your melodies fly my way / Take me to your paradise / On a musical ride / I’m in love with your music, baby / You are the music of my eyes.—Lady Gaga, “Music to My Eyes” (from A Star Is Born)
44. Anyone who lives real life will love real love.—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Aurora Leigh”
45. So let me do the dishes in our kitchen sink / Put you to bed when you’ve had too much to drink / Oh I could be the man who grows old with you / I want to grow old with you.—Adam Sandler and Tim Herlihy, the wedding singer
46. In a universe of ambiguity, that kind of certainty only comes once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live. —Robert James Waller, “The Bridges of Madison County”
47. There is no more intensely personal choice, after all, than who you choose to marry; this choice tells us, to a great extent, who you are. — Elizabeth Gilbert, “Engaged”
48. You are the perfect verse on a tight beat. —Michael Elliott and Rick Famuyiwa, “Brown Sugar”
49. We are made of particles that have existed since the time the universe began. I like to think that these atoms traveled fourteen billion years through time and space to create us, so that we could be together and unite. – Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady and Steven Molaro, “The Big Bang Theory”
50. And where was I before the day I first saw your beautiful face? / Now I see him everyday / And I know / That I am… / The luckiest.—Ben Folds, “The luckiest”
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