260+ Emotional Quotes On The Husband-Wife Relationship

The relationship between a husband and wife is one with mutual love, care, respect, and responsibility, but of course, there will be fights and misunderstandings too. We’ve compiled some emotional quotes on husband-wife relationships that will help you cope with challenges in your marriage.

Things change with time, and problems can arise when the couple stops nurturing and protecting their love for each other. Despite the challenges, misunderstandings, and arguments, it is important to be emotionally supportive of each other. Are you facing emotional challenges and dealing with emotional outbursts and feel your relationship is derailed? If yes, keep scrolling as we share some thought-provoking husband-wife quotes to help you better understand your emotions.

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261 Emotional Quotes On The Husband-Wife Relationship

We brought you some of the best husband and wife relationship quotes that will give you an insight into the relationship and what you need to do to revive it.

  1. “We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe
  2. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
  3. “You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kissin heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.” – Boris Pasternak
  4. “A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” –  Ruth Bell Graham
  5. “Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.” – Tom Mullen
  6. “Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.” –  Pat Conroy
  7. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” –  Thomas Edison
  8. “Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.” –  Harville Hendrix
  9. To get divorcedbecause love has died is like selling your car because it’s run out of gas.” –  Diane Sollee
  10. “Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is the conversation.” –  Oscar Wilde

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  1. “They say it takes a village to raise a child. That may be the case, but the truth is that it takes a lot of solid, stable marriages to create a village.” –  Diane Sollee
  2. “I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.” –  Stephen Covey
  3. “When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, ‘Ruth and I are happily incompatible.’” – Billy Graham
  4. “When we got married, I told my wife, “If you leave me, I’m going with you.” And she never did.”  – James Fineous McBride
  5. “Being in a long marriage is a little bit like that nice cup of coffee every morning – I might have it every day, but I still enjoy it.” – Stephen Gaines
  6. “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens
  7. “It feels good to think about you when I’m warm in bed. I feel as if you’re curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true.” – Haruki Murakami
  8. “But I must admit, I miss you quite terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.” – Lemony Snicket
  9. “Love doesn’t make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Elizabeth Barett Browning
  10. “We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen
  11. “I love you, but you don’t know what you’re talking about.” – Moonrise Kingdom

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  1. “Look, you want to know what marriage is really like? Fine. You wake up, she’s there. When 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.” – Everybody Loves Raymond
  2. “A happy marriage doesn’t mean you have a perfect spouse or a perfect marriage. It simply means you’ve chosen to look beyond the imperfections in both.” – Fawn Weaver

  1. “Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.” – Barnett R. Brickner
  2. “You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person and your life is changed forever.” – Margaret Watson
  3. “And I knew exactly how old Walt Disney’s Cinderella felt when she found her prince.” – Elizabeth Young
  4. “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.” – When Harry Met Sally
  5. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
  6. “Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.” – Nicholas Sparks
  7. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
  8. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Bronte
  9. “When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – Arrigo Boito
  10. “I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” – John Green
  11. “He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.” – Leo Tolstoy
  12. “Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” – Loretta Young
  13. “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.” – A.A. Milne
  14. “That’s how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can’t experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.” – Kaui Hart Hemmings
  15. “We were together even when we were apart.” – Shannon A. Thompson
  16. “I will return. I will find you. Love you. Marry you. And live without shame.” – Ian McEwan
  17. “Affection is when you see someone’s strengths; love is when you accept someone’s flaws.” – One Day
  18. “My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and the courage to accept the love in return.” – Maya Angelou
  19. “Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.” – Jennifer Smith
  20. “Happiness in marriage is a moment by moment choice. It’s a decision to love, forgive, grow and grow old together.” – Fawn Weaver
  21. “Don’t ever confuse a great marriage with a perfect one. A great marriage is attained through daily effort, love and investment of time. A perfect marriage doesn’t exist because it involves the union of two imperfect people.” – Fawn Weaver
  22. “The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. Mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.” – Fawn Weaver
  23. “People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.” – Paul Newman
  24. “Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.” – Harville Hendrix
  25. “The hottest love has the coldest end.” –  Socrates
  26. “One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.” – Erma Bombeck
  27. “Me and my wife are happy. At least when we are not together.” – Jarod Kintz
  28. “Let husband and wife never speak to one another in loud tones, unless the house is on fire.” –  David O. McKay
  29. “Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.” –  Roger Federer
  30. “Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.” – Walter Winchell
  31. “I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.” – Julie Benz
  32. “It takes an entire life to say goodbye.” – Unknown
  33. “Sometimes you need to forget what you want in order to understand what you deserve.” – Unknown
  34. “People who quickly move out of your way are those who you never stick by your side.” – Unknown
  35. “Assumptions make a relationship hollow.” – Unknown
  36. “The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” – Rumi
  37. “Marriage is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is Eternity.” – Kahlil Gibran
  38. “For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  39. “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  40. “Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.” – Anne Hathaway
  41. “Marriages, like a garden, take time to grow. But the harvest is rich unto those who patiently and tenderly care for the ground.” – Darlene Schacht
  42. “You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.” – Henry Drummond
  43. “The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they’re too old to do it.” – Ann Bancroft
  44. “If I get married, I want to be very married.” – Audrey Hepburn
  45. “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.” —Benjamin Franklin
  46. “There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.” – Chris Rock
  47. “Two people can never be friends once they break up. If they stay as friends, it means there is love. Or else, there is nothing between them.” – Unknown
  48. “A real partner is the one who walks into your life when everyone has stepped out.” – Unknown
  49. “Your kind effort can clear all the misunderstanding and mistrust.” – Unknown
  50. “Never take me for granted. Unlike other women, I can straightly walk away from your life.” – Unknown
  51. “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” – Bob Marley
  52. “Saying goodbye to your partner is like jumping off the edge. Once you have jumped, you have no choice to stop yourself.” – Unknown
  53. “I hope you would have known what I was going through.” – Unknown
  54. “It’s not easy to keep waiting for something that you are never going to get.” – Unknown
  55. “Relationships – of all kinds – are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is.The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.” – Kaleel Jamison
  56. “Only married people can understand how you can be miserable and happy at the same time.” – Chris Rock
  57. “Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.” – Erma Bombeck
  58. “When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.” – Prince Philip
  59. “Great love affairs start with champagne and end with tisane” – Honoré de Balzac
  60. “A man doesn’t know what happiness is until he’s married. By then it’s too late.” – Frank Sinatra
  61. “Love, gratitude, compassion, because sometimes every man or every woman will drive their partner crazy.” – Goldie Hawn
  62. “Loving you never was an option. It was a necessity.” – Truth Devour
  63. “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope…I have loved none but you.” – Jane Austen
  64. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.” – Lord Alfred Tennyson
  65. “Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.” – Audre Lorde
  66. “For all the things my hands have held, the best by far is you.” – Andrew McMahon
  67. “I have for the first time found what I can truly love. I have found you.” – Charlotte Brontë
  68. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” – Sophocles
  69. “In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” – Janos Arany
  70. “A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.” – Rupert Brooke
  71. “The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.” – George Edward Moore
  72. “Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let’s kiss afresh, as when we first begun.” – Robert Herrick
  73. “I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.” – W. H. Auden
  74. “Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! – Thomas Hood
  75. “When I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart.” – Nicholas Sparks
  76. “Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.” – William Shakespeare
  77. “Not all days are good days. You have to go through bad days and sorrows in order to value the real happiness.” – Unknown
  78. “The best way to get into a long-lasting relationship is to have zero expectations. It is the place to give, not a place to take.” – Unknown

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  1. “Love fades in a relationship when you start changing your partner as you like.” – Unknown
  2. “You need more mentors than critics in your relationship.” – Unknown
  3. “If ever I have to live my life without you, your memories will keep me going.” – Unknown
  4. “Your attitude either damages or strengthens your relationship.” – Unknown
  5. “A breakup is like a broken mirror. It is better to leave it alone than hurt yourself trying to fix it.” – Linda Randall Wisdom
  6. “A married life dies down when both the partners stop sharing their feelings with each other.” – Unknown
  7. “Sometimes distance tells us who is worth keeping in our life.” – Anonymous
  8. “I wish I could have told you how much I love you. But now I feel it’s too late.” – Unknown
  9. “I hate myself coz I’m still in love with you.” – Unknown
  10. “Now there is a new person in your life. I wish that the person could be me.” – Unknown
  11. “You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones.” – Robert Jordan
  12. “We were married for better or worse. I couldn’t have done better and she couldn’t have done worse.” – Henry Youngman
  13. “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
  14. “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – Paulo Coelho
  15. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” – Oscar Wilde
  16. “It is love that makes the impossible, possible.” – Indian Proverb
  17. “And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.” – Kiersten White
  18. “I’m gonna act like I won’t even know you

‘Coz I hate myself for falling in love with you” – Faron Young

  1. “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.” – Oscar Wilde
  2. “I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
  3. “In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” – Mignon McLaughlin
  4. “The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.” —William Lyon Phelps
  5. “Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
  6. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein
  7. “Oh the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.” – Thomas Moore
  8. “You are every reason, every hope and every dream I’ve ever had.” – Nicholas Sparks
  9. “If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us.” – Daisaku Ikeda
  10. “I hope one day you will realize and regret why you let it end.” – Unknown
  11. “I used to love you more than anything, but now I find no reason to continue those feelings.” – Unknown
  12. “I will keep waiting for you until the day you realize how true was my feelings for you.” – Unknown
  13. “Once you lose someone, there’s no one to replace them.” – Unknown
  14. “It hurts being so close to you, yet so far.” – Unknown
  15. “Relationship ends when you stop doing the cute little things.” – Unknown

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  1. “Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others.” – Stephen R. Covey
  2. “Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.” – Faraaz Kazi
  3. “It’s amazing how someone can break your heart, and you can still love them with all the little pieces.” – Ella Harper
  4. “There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It’s caused by the absence of you.” – Ashleigh Brilliant
  5. “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.” – Anaïs Nin
  6. “The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.” – Jim Rohn
  7. “Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.” – Leonardo da Vinci
  8. “It hurts to leave a light on for nobody.” – Graham Foust
  9. “It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.” – George Eliot

  1. “For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.” – John Greenleaf Whittier
  2. “Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
  3. “Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you’re offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone’s feelings.” – David Sedaris
  4. “The groom always smiles proudly because he’s convinced he’s accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she’s been able to convince him of it.” – Judith McNaught
  5. “Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning a handspring, or eating with chopsticks: It looks easy until you try it.” – Helen Rowland
  6. “Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else.” – Jean Kerr
  7. “Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn’t show up on X-rays, but you know it’s there. ” – George Burns
  8. “I love you more than coffee, but please don’t make me prove it. ” – Elizabeth Evans
  9. “All my friends are getting married. I guess I’m just at that age where people give up.” – Amy Schumer
  10. “You can’t put a price tag on love. But if you could, I’d wait for it to go on sale.” – Jarod Kintz
  11. “I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” – Rita Rudner
  12. “Being a good husband is like being a stand-up comic. You need 10 years before you can call yourself a beginner.” – Jerry Seinfeld
  13. “If you can stay in love for more than two years, you’re on something.” – Fran Lebowitz
  14. “True love is the greatest thing, in the world, except for a nice MLT — mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe.” – The Princess Bride
  15. “The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.” – Alfred Hitchcock
  16. “I am content to know

Such love is mine-for life is all too brief

To grieve for pleasures bringing only grief;

Give me but You; it is enough just so.” – Ruth Bell Graham

  1. “We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.” – Dr. Seuss
  2. “An archeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.” – Agatha Christie
  3. “Let brotherly love continue.” – Hebrews 13:1
  4. “Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful and endures through every circumstance.” – Corinthians 13:7
  5. “For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.” – Rosemonde Gerard
  6. “I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you, not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  7. “Walking with your hands in mine and mine in yours, that’s exactly where I want to be always.” – Fawn Weaver
  8. “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” – Joan Powers
  9. “By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what’s still worse, love any woman in the world but her.” – Samuel Richardson
  10. “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” – Andre Maurois
  11. “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 with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?” – George Eliot
  12. “Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.” – Simone Signoret
  13. “You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.” – Marc Norman
  14. “Sexiness wears thin after a while, and beauty fades. But to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, now that’s a real treat.” – JoAnne Woodward
  15. “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” – Judy Garland

  1. “I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever. I promise to never forget that this is a once in a lifetime love.” – The Vow
  2. “I’m feeling alive, and with every breath that I take, I feel like I’ve won. You’re my key to survival.” – Secondhand Serenade
  3. “To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die.” – The Smiths
  4. “I know she’s not perfect, but she tries so hard for me. And I thank God that she isn’t ’cause how boring would that be.” – Brad Paisley
  5. “But there is not enough time. And there is no, no song I could sing. And there is no combination of words I could say. But I will still tell you one thing. We’re better together.” – Jack Johnson
  6. “I hope you don’t mind, I hope you don’t mind that I put into words. How wonderful life is, now you’re in the world.” – Elton John
  7. “Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.’” – Genesis 2:18
  8. “For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.” – Isaiah 62:5
  9. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi
  10. “Faith makes all things possible. Love makes all things easy. ” – Dwight Moody
  11. “Love is like a friendship caught on fire.” – Bruce Lee
  12. “I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.” – Javan
  13. “When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.” – Joseph Campbell
  14. “Love is not something you feel. It is something you do.” – David Wilkerson
  15. “Keep alert, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.” – Corinthians 16:13
  16. “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” – Corinthians 13:13
  17. “I am my beloved and my beloved is mine.” – Song of Solomon 6:3
  18. “Love me when I least deserve it because that is when I really need it.” – Swedish Proverb
  19. “As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.” – Thomas Adams
  20. “Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.” – Leo Buscaglia
  21. “Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.” – Mark Twain
  22. “You know it’s never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It’s always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride” – Jodi Piccoult
  23. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” – Mignon McLaughlin
  24. “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
  25. “To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.” –Robert Breault
  26. “I’ll never let you down. No matter what you do. If you just walk with me. And let me walk with you.” – Neil Young
  27. “A marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s the way you love your partner everyday.” – Barbara De Angelis
  28. “Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.” – Samuel Richardson

  1. “Love is our true destiny. We do not find meaning of life by ourselves alone—we find it with another.” – Thomas Merton
  2. “The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make – not just on your wedding day, but over and over again – and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.” – Barbara De Angelis
  3. “There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.” – Dave Grohl

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  1. “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
  2. “I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”– Marilyn Monroe
  3. “A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”– Dave Meurer
  4. “There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”– Martin Luther
  5. “The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn’t marry me.” – Robert Breault
  6. “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
  7. “In a marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic, a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts, and enabler rather than a reformer.” – H. Norman Wright
  8. “Remember, we all stumble; every one of us. That is why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.” – Emily Kimbrough
  9. “To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing more.” – Victor Hugo
  10. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
  11. “Two souls with but a single thought; two hearts that beat as one.” – John Keats
  12. “When in a relationship, a real man doesn’t make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.” – Steve Maraboli
  13. “True love is never blind, but rather brings an added light.” – Phoebe Cary
  14. “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” – Maya Angelou
  15. “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.” – Jane Austen
  16. “I believe love is always eternal. Even if eternity is only five minutes.” – Sandra Cisneros
  17. “Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.” – Pablo Neruda
  18. “Only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere.” – Vertigo
  19. “It doesn’t matter if the guy is perfect or the girl is perfect, as long as they are perfect for each other.” – Good Will Hunting
  20. “You make me want to be a better man.” – As Good As It Gets
  21. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.” – Moulin Rouge
  22. “But the heart’s not like a box that gets filled up. It expands in size the more you love.” – Her
  23. “A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.” – Anne Lamott
  24. “If you’re thinking of getting married, you might as well learn right now that you have to let women be women.” – Hello, Dolly
  25. “Once we figured out that we could not change each other, we became free to celebrate ourselves as we are.” – H. Dean Rutherford
  26. “A long-lasting marriage is built by two people who believe in -and live by- the solemn promise they made.” – Darlene Schacht
  27. Marriage is a commitment– a decision to do, all through life, that which will express your love for one’s spouse.” – Herman H. Kieval
  28. “The doors of happiness remain locked. When they are unlocked, they swing open quickly and widely but close right behind them. They must be reopened throughout each day and there is but one key that fits that lock: Gratitude.” – Fawn Weaver
  29. “Marriage is like watching the color of leaves in the fall; ever changing and more stunningly beautiful with each passing day.” – Fawn Weaver
  30. “There are few things more frightening to a man than giving away his heart. And there are few things more comforting to a man than to know the woman he gave his heart to, will protect it with her life.” – Fawn Weaver
  31. “Enjoy the little things in ife… For one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.” – Robert Breault
  32. “When you compromise your beliefs for the sake of gain, that is a lack of integrity. When you compromise your beliefs for the sake of greater understanding with your spouse, that’s called wisdom.” – Fawn Weaver
  33. ”No one can go back and change how it started but a new future for any marriage can begin the moment one person begins to invest in it.” – Fawn Weaver
  34. “Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.” – Franz Schubert
  35. “There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.” – Ronald Reagan
  36. “When my husband holds me in his arms it makes me feel -even if just for those moments- that all else is well in the world.” – Fawn Weaver
  37. “One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.” – Judith Viorst
  38. “Your gift to me is uninsurable. No appraiser can put a value on it… It’s like fruit of the month or a lifetime subscription – a perpetual-motion happiness machine. It starts off fresh and brand new every day, shining up my whole world…” – Ronald Reagan
  39. “Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won’t matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength.” – Timothy Keller
  40. “One of the most beautiful things in the world is a woman’s heart. It is fragile yet strong. Delicate yet resilient. When a woman gives you her heart, she gives you her most prized possession. If you love, nurture, cherish and protect it, she’ll give you the world.” – Fawn Weaver
  41. “Husbands are like wine; they take a long time to mature.” – Letters to Juliet
  42. “Marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond, only it doesn’t last 22 minutes. It lasts forever.” – Knocked Up
  43. “Even a pain in the ass needs someone to take care of them.” – 28 Days
  44. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
  45. “You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.” – Gone With the Wind
  46. “To me, you are perfect.” – Love Actually
  47. “Email my heart and say our love will never die.” – Britney Spears
  48. “Right beside you is where I belong, from this moment on.” – Shania Twain
  49. “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” – The Beatles
  50. “All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.” – The Beatles
  51. “Hey, you remember where we first met? Okay, I don’t remember where we first met. But hey, admittin’ is the first step. And hey, you know ain’t nobody perfect.” – Kanye West
  52. “I wouldn’t want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I’d like it if he could be wicked and wouldn’t” – L. M. Montgomery
  53. “At last my love has come along, my lonely days are over and life is like a song.” – Etta James
  54. “When the darkness rolls in, I’ll be there through thick and thin.” – Hilary Duff
  55. “I don’t know where I’d be without you here with me. Life with you makes perfect sense. You’re my best friend.” – Tim McGraw
  56. “Ever thine, ever mine, ever ours.” – Ludwig van Beethoven
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Frequently Asked Questions

1. What romantic things can I say to my husband?

Expressing your emotions and feelings to your husband is the best way to make him feel loved. Saying romantic things now and then can keep the spark of romance and intimacy alive in your relationship. “Thank you for being mine,” “You complete me as a person,” “I smile every time I think of you,” and “you bring out the best in me” are a few romantic things you can say to your husband and sweep him off his feet.

2. What does a husband need from his wife?

Trust, love, affection, fidelity, loyalty, compassion, and respect are among the crucial things that a man or a woman would want from their partner. These attributes bring a couple closer and strengthen the foundations of their union.

3. How can I win my husband’s heart?

Winning a man isn’t difficult, provided you understand him and his expectations clearly. So spend quality time with your husband and have an open and honest conversation. Ask him about his expectations and share your expectations from him for balance. Listen to him carefully and respond calmly. Take an interest in his likes and dislikes and participate in his hobbies. Express your adoration for him by offering warmth and endearment, especially when he’s going through a tough time. Be a friend, guide, and philosopher to him, and be by his side in every high and low of life.

A husband and wife relationship is sacred. Some days may be difficult to get through, while others will be as bright as the sun. Regardless of the ups and downs, make sure you’re both happy together and have each other’s back. Even if you make a mistake, you should learn from it and continue to maintain your relationship. These emotional husband and wife quotes will inspire you to put more effort into your relationship. Also, share them with your spouse to help them understand you genuinely care about them and your marriage.

Infographic: Quotes On Love And Lovers

The husband-wife relationship should be of the closest friends and dearest lovers. It is one of the most challenging yet crucial associations of life. Read through this infographic to learn more lovable quotes penned by some well-known authors to share with your better half and cherish this lovely bond.

quotes on love from writings of popular authors (infographic)

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Discover the top 21 secret quotes that will help strengthen your husband and wife relationship. Get ready to be inspired and motivated!

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