100 Epic Valentine Quotes for Your Husband (Funny and Romantic) - The Happy Wallflower (2024)

Happy Valentine’s Day, honey! Sound familiar? This special day is when we’re supposed to tell the most special person in our lives how much love we have for them. But this is the best valentine’s day messages some of us can come up with.

Well, don’t feel bad! There are a lot of people in that boat. It’s hard coming up with the right words to say. Especially, with the added pressure this day of love brings. And especially, if it’s for your forever valentine – dear old hubby.

Don’t worry. I got you covered! This is why we make note of impactful and sentimental things that other people say. What’s that, you ask? Quotes!

I’ve listed the best romantic and funny quotes about love and marriage. So, when your own words fail you – or you end up staring cross-eyed at a blank greeting card – use someone else’s words.

You’re bound to find one that works for you in this list of 100 valentine day quotes for husband, boyfriend or not-so-secret crush.

See a lot of love quotes you like? This list is great for more than a single day. Bookmark this page and return to it as many times as you like. Your friends will be so impressed at how profound you’ve become lately.

Or, if you’re feeling crafty, make your own quote box. Just pull one out whenever you feel like getting a little romantic with your better half.

Funny Marriage Quotes

Some people have a very light-hearted relationship. For them, it’s like being married to their best friend. It doesn’t matter if you have a love story for the ages, or you’re celebrating your first valentine’s day. These will be great valentine’s day quotes for couples who think laughing together makes life worth living.

1. “You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.” – Albert Einstein
2. “Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.” – Billie Holiday
3. “Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” – Jim Carrey
4. “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles Schulz
5. “Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.” – Chris Rock
6. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” – Mignon McLaughlin
7. “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
8. “Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?” – Groucho Marx
9. “The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.” – Henny Youngman
10. “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.” – Benjamin Franklin
11. “When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.” – Rita Rudner
12. “Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
13. “A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.” – Zsa Zsa Gabor
14. “For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.” – Catherine Zeta-Jones
15. “There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.” – Clint Eastwood
16. “Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn’t even have when you were on your own.” – Eddie Cantor
17. “All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.” – Red Skelton
18. “Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.” – Joyce Brothers
19. “Marriage is a gamble, let’s be honest.” – Yoko Ono
20. “If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.” – Katharine Hepburn
21. “The only good husbands stay bachelors: They’re too considerate to get married.” – Finley Peter Dunne
22. “To keep your marriage brimming with love in the loving cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up.” – Ogden Nash
23. “Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.” – Michel de Montaigne
24. “Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.” – Johnny Carson
25. “Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.” – Jerry Seinfeld

Marriage In Real Life Quotes

Real love is often defined by those who share it. These valentine’s day messages are for those who think of love, romance and marriage in a very practical way. For those who know that choosing to stay in love for a long time requires work and commitment.

26. “Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” – Ann Landers
27. “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
28. “Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.'” – Erich Fromm
29. “Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.” – Karl A. Menninger
30. “Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.” – John Lennon
31. “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” – James Baldwin
32. “We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.” – Tom Robbins
33. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
34. “In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.” – Gerald Brenan
35. “When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.” – Joseph Campbell
36. “They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.” – Alexander Pope
37. “Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it’s not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.” – Amy Grant
38. “Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.” – Sydney Smith
39. “Choose your love, love your choice.” – Thomas S. Monson

Romantic Quotes

My dear husband is the love of my life. For those who can say that, you’ll love these heartfelt valentine’s day messages.

40. “Where there is love there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
41. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
42. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
43. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
44. “Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
45. “Love is space and time measured by the heart.” – Marcel Proust
46. “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo
47. “Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” – Loretta Young
48. “We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe
49. “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” – Ingrid Bergman
50. “Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.” – Jules Renard
51. “Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” – Voltaire
52. “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Robert Frost
53. “Love is a friendship set to music.” – Joseph Campbell
54. “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens
55. “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” – Pablo Picasso
56. “Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.” – Thomas A. Kempis
57. “Love is a game that two can play and both win.” – Eva Gabor
58. “He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.” – Henri Matisse
59. “True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
60. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
61. “Love is friendship set on fire.” – Jeremy Taylor
62. “The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.” – Marilyn Monroe
63. “I love you – I am at rest with you – I have come home.” – Dorothy L. Sayers
64. “I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
65. “Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.” – Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
66. “Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, it overflows upon the outward world.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
67. “The word ‘romance,’ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.” – Billy Graham
68. “A man’s kiss is his signature.” – Mae West
69. “When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.” – William Makepeace Thackeray
70. “The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
71. “Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.” – Henry Ward Beecher
72. “I believe that when you’re in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner … or why bother?” – Cameron Diaz
73. “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” – Andre Maurois
74. “Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.” – Ann Landers
75. “Love is often the fruit of marriage.” – Moliere

Romantic Movie Quotes

These last few love quotes are from some of the best romantic movies out there. Movies are often an untapped source of great valentine’s day messages. After all, how else can you see someone meet and marry their soulmate in under an hour!? Plus, movies come with the added benefit of instant nostalgia and relatability.

76. “It doesn’t matter if the guy is perfect or the girl is perfect, as long as they are perfect for each other.” – Sean, Good Will Hunting
77. “I came here tonight because 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.” – Harry Burns, When Harry Met Sally
78. “You complete me.” -J erry Maquire, Jerry Maquire
79. “It seems right now that all I’ve ever done in my life is making my way here to you.” – Robert Kincaid, Bridges of Madison County
80. “No matter what happens to us, every day with you is the best day of my life.” – Noah, The Notebook
81. “To me, you are perfect.” – Mark, Love Actually
82. “I don’t wanna love in half measures. I want it all. And to have it all, we have to risk it all.” – Lara Jean, To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You
83. “I love you very much. Probably more than anybody could love another person.” – Henry, 50 First Dates
84. “That’s what people do. They leap and hope to God they can fly. Because otherwise, we just drop like a rock, wondering the whole way down, ‘Why in the hell did I jump?’ But here I am … falling. And there’s only one person that makes me feel like I can fly. That’s you.” – Alex Hitch, Hitch
85. “Our love is like the wind. I can’t see it, but I can feel it.” – Landon, A Walk to Remember
86. “I’ve come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is, and always will be, yours.” – Edward, Sense and Sensibility
87. “So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s gonna be really hard. We’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day…” – Noah Calhoun, The Notebook
88. “I’m scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I’m with you.” – Baby, Dirty Dancing
89. “You’re my air.” – Dre, Brown Sugar
90. “But the heart’s not like a box that gets filled up. It expands in size the more you love.” – Samantha, Her
91. “I hope it’s okay if I love you forever.” – Ally, A Star is Born
92. “They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that’s true.” – Big Fish
93. “The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.” – Dad, Juno
94. “Love is passion, obsession, someone you can’t live without. If you don’t start with that, what are you going to end up with?” – Bill, Meet Joe Black
95. “I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever.” – The Vox
96. “People do fall in love. People do belong to each other, because that’s the only chance that anyone’s got for true happiness.” – Breakfast at Tiffany’s
97. “I don’t want to sound foolish, but remember love is what brought you here. And if you’ve trusted love this far, don’t panic now. Trust it all the way.” – If Beale Street Could Talk
98. “I think I’d miss you even if we’d never met.” – The Wedding Date
99. “I love you without knowing how, why, or even from where.” – Patch Adams
100. “You don’t marry someone you can live with, you marry the person you cannot live without.” – P.S. I Love You

Bonus: How to Use Quotes for Valentine Messages

Sending your special man a sweet love note never got so easy. A simple love letter structure is to start with a greeting such as dear husband, sweet husband, handsome husband or darling husband. Or, to make it more personal, use a special pet name or nickname that only you know or use.

Add in one of these person quotes or movie quotes. Then sign it with something flirty like, “Let’s have a romantic day!” Done!

Don’t be surprised if he has a big smile on his face while reading it.

100 Funny and Romantic Valentine’s Quotes for Your Husband

There you have it! 100 love quotes giving the perfect opportunity for you to level up your happy valentine’s day wishes. These valentines day quotes for husband, significant other or longtime crush make for a sweet message for the perfect valentine’s day cards or love letters. They’ll never know what hit ‘em!