People say that when you get married, you become one. While this isn’t always the case, there is definitely some truth to it. Marriage can be a great thing, but it’s not all rainbows and unicorns. It takes work – work that’s worth it, though! Here are some quotes about marriage to help inspire and motivate you.

1. Many a woman is in a relationship with or married to her man not because she loves him but only because she likes men like him. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
2. Well, Ben says you have to be married to get a girl pregnant. And me and Cindy are not married, so she couldn’t get pregnant, see? — Scylar Tyberius, Sebastian the Great
3. To foreswear romantic love forever. To never grow up, never get married. To be maiden eternally. — Rick Riordan
4. You can’t stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat. — Mike Tyson
5. Body and soul can never be marriedI need to become who I already am and will bellow forever at this incongruity which has committed me to hell — Sarah Kane
6. Married and buried, wed and dead. — Rachel Caine, Prince of Shadows
7. Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine. — Nora Ephron
8. The two things that I wanted in my life were to have a movie career and to be married, to have a family. And it’s an embarrassment of riches that I’ve got both. — Sam Elliott
9. I often refer to myself as a gay man and all my friends are gay and I would like nothing more than for them to be able to be married. — Tori Spelling
10. I was born Mary Patterson, but then I married and naturally took my husband’s name, so now I’m Neil Patterson. — Stephen Fry
11. If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don’t make it a rock star. — Stevie Nicks
12. A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience. — Samuel Johnson
13. I am afraid of getting older…I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day–spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. — Sylvia Plath
14. Never share you secret with a married person for the partner will get to hear of it. — Oppong Amankwaa
15. You may marry the man of your dreams ladies but fourteen years later you’re married to a couch that burps. — Roseanne Barr
16. Miss Piggy and Chicken Little may rest easy, but gay people in Florida and California can no longer get married. — Samantha Ronson
17. People shouldn’t stay married because of the kids. That’s torture for everyone. — Sofia Vergara
18. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species! — Patrice Leconte
19. My mom’s been married three times my dad has been married a lot. I didn’t really see my dad that much. — Skeet Ulrich
20. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. — Oscar Wilde
21. Being married is different than not being married, and anybody who tells you that it’s the same is lying. — Scarlett Johansson
22. Married love burns as fire, and seeks nothing more than the mate. It says, ‘I want only you — Martin Luther
23. Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they’ve been married to ’em for 53 years, you know? — Viggo Mortensen
24. Javier to Hunter: ‘How long you and Dargangelo been married? — Pamela Clare
25. We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. — Nick Faldo
26. I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids. — The Weeknd
27. I was doing what I thought I had to do. There was romance in the idea of being married. It was just the wrong reasons. — Rush Limbaugh
28. Miss Piggy and Chicken Little may rest easy, but gay people in Florida and California can no longer get married. — Samantha Ronson
29. Hey wedding DJ, there is no way in hell I’m paying you $1, 000 when all you’re doing is plugging your iPod into the sound system #AHOLE — A.O. Storm, An A–Hole Gets Married
30. When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days. — Maxim Gorky
31. I don’t worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. — Sam Kinison
32. Getting married is easy, but divorce is very difficult — joerobert
33. I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters. — Susan B. Anthony
34. If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you’d have a hell of a lot of overlapping. — Mignon McLaughlin
35. I was going with someone for a few years, but we broke up. It was one of those things. He wanted to get married, and I didn’t want him to. — Rita Rudner
36. The only really happy folk are married women and single men. — H. L. Mencken
37. I was born Mary Patterson, but then I married and naturally took my husband’s name, so now I’m Neil Patterson. — Stephen Fry
38. If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it. — Oscar Wilde
39. After youve been married quite a few years, you learn to take orders; it just comes easy. — Randy Travis
40. I married somebody who is very secure. He’s been in my corner from the time we met, and we grew in this together. — Susan Lucci
41. No wedding bells for me anymore. I’ve been happily married to my profession for years. — Shirley Bassey
42. I don’t feel that my life, my professional life, is married to a reliance upon Instagram. — Sarah Jessica Parker
43. I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel. — Sarah Michelle Gellar
44. I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel. — Sarah Michelle Gellar
45. Communist until you get rich. Feminist until you get married. Atheist until the airplane starts falling. — juanda brahma metta
46. Life is’nt about getting everything you want the instant you want it.Some thing are worth waiting for. — Mira Lyn Kelly, Waking Up Married
47. I don’t worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. — Sam Kinison
48. To hear how great your friends think you are: fake your death, or, get married. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
49. It’s like the riddle of the Sphinx… why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men? — Sarah Jessica Parker
50. Communist until you get rich. Feminist until you get married. Atheist until the airplane starts falling. — juanda brahma metta