Here is a wonderful collection of sweet marriage quotes to use for special occasions like Valentine's Day, a birthday, a wedding anniversary or just to say "I love you."

Celebrating a long relationship, a wedding proposal or 25 years of marriage? Or just feeling lucky to have found the love of one's life?

Pick one of these loving quotes about marriage to put in a card, be it for Valentine's Day or just to send in a text to appreciate that special someone. These quotations and verses are also great to include in a speech be it a toast at a wedding party or at 40th year anniversary.

Love is an arrow, marriage is a boomerang.
– Ara Baliozian, contemporary writer

We've been together now for forty years
An' it don't seem a day too long.
– Albert Cheraker

Marriage is a sea of dreams.
– Frank Crane, contemporary writer

The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth,
Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet,
Sinews of concord, earth immortality,
Eternity of pleasures.
– John Ford, 16th/17th-century dramatist

Married love is love woven into a pattern of living. It has in it the elements of understanding and of the passionate kindness of husband and wife toward each other. It is rich in the many-sided joys of life because each is more concerned with giving joy than with grasping it for himself. And joys are most truly experienced when they are most fully shared.
– Leland Foster Wood, 20th-century author

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Marriages are made in heaven, but they are lived on earth.
– Nathan H. Gist

One year of Joy, another of Comfort, and all the rest of content, make the married Life happy.
–Thomas Fuller, 17th-century author

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
– Martin Luther, 16th-century founder of Protestantism

A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.
–Andre Maurois, 20th-century writer

Marriage is a partnership
In which each inspires the other,
And brings fruition to both.
– Millicent Carey McIntosh

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

The highest happiness on earth is marriage.
– William Lyon Phelps, 19th/20th-century author

Marriage must exemplify friendship's highest ideal….
– Margaret E. Sanger, 20th-century women's rights activist

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
– Simon Signoret, 20th-century actress

Teacher, tender comrade, wife,
A fellow-farer true through life.
-Robert Louis Steveson, 19th-century author

Already the second day since our marriage, his love and gentleness is beyond everything, and to kiss that dear soft cheek, to press my lips to his, is heavenly bliss. I feel a purer more unearthly feel than I ever did. Oh! Was ever a woman so blessed as I am.
– Queen Victoria of Great Britain, journal entry in February 1840

Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.
– Chinese proverb

Choose one of these sweet quotes about love and marriage to put in a love letter, Valentine's Day card or to put on that little card that goes with a bouquet of flowers. These quotes are also great to add to a speech at a wedding, wedding shower or anniversary.