794 Quotes Found
"My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. That's the same marriage I have."
"Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her."
"Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman."
"I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married."
"I've learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are."
"Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate."
"To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it."
"There's lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it's an inspiring rally point."
"Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution."
"Our black president can't say that he's for gay marriage. That is upsetting to me."
"Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should ever have to conduct a marriage that is inconsistent with their religious beliefs. But I think as a civil institution, this issue's time has come and we need to move forward."
"I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have."
"I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was never going to happen to me again. I made a brave step to walk out in a society when you didn't walk out of an abusive marriage. It was mental and physical abuse."
"The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that."
"I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you."
"People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie... you know, we didn't always have the greatest days. For at least half the length of our marriage we were separated, so everyday was definitely not a good day."
"I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused."
"Marriage, even the best marriages are tough."
"We are confident that the Supreme Court will soon see the direction that this country is headed and enshrine marriage as a constitutional right for all."
"Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require."
"Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans."
"I finally got a chance to talk to my daughter from my previous marriage. I just got married May 3 to my beautiful wife, but we don't see each other much."
"There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting."
"My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage."
"Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today."
"The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution."
"The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional."
"The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard."
"Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth."
"The fact is, I am in my third marriage and I do not believe in divorce. But I was half the problem, I guarantee you. More than half the problem. I couldn't negotiate with the other women."
"When you're suddenly pregnant and no one is standing by your side, even if you're in your 30s, it's a hard conversation. I'm a traditional girl, and I believe in marriage, and I just always thought that's the way I'd be doing this."
"But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three."
"Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature."
"I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken."
"I don't particularly think marriage is a sane thing."
"Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people."
"In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage."
"Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too."
"Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done."
"I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country."
"I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them."
"Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us."
"I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race."
"Let me be clear. I support the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman."
"New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture."
"It's the best marriage of songs and production. But I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova."
"There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama."
"You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage."
"I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18, ' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president."
"I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God."
"Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion."
"But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous."
"I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage."
"When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that."
"I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone."
"It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family."
"My marriage was breaking up, and my marriage with Chong was breaking up. I had to come back and kind of start on my own again."
"Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie."
"Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally."
"Marriage is important to me and I love the idea of being married."
"I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me it's something I'm doing."
"A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems."
"A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not."
"Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity."
"I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois."
"For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures."
"It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership."
"All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it."
"The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesn't believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people."
"The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so."
"There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman."
"Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats."
"It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend."
"My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics."
"My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time."
"My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one."
"I love being in a relationship, but marriage isn't for me."
"I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally."
"More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit."
"Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done."
"Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it."
"No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq."
"In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy."
"I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage."
"I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both."
"I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading."
"It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate."
"I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage."
"When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit."
"My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment."
"Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil."
"I have no useful theories about love and marriage."
"It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part."
"It couldn't be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn't really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don't gravitate to it."
"I have a lady, she's a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We're on the same page. Whenever that day happens when we're not on the same page we'll move forward with it. We're interested in having our lives be our lives right now and not a third person's vis-a-vis marriage and whatever that means."
"I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved."
"I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings."
"No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association."
"I've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I'd like to have children marriage I have a bit of an issue with."
"I routinely never discuss my marriage. It's nice to have things in my life that are totally mine."
"They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing."
"We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage."
"The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia."
"President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage."
"My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days."
"When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails I let it go off the rails."
"I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is."
"Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way the country can move forward on this issue. Let all those who have a view on this subject place their trust in the Scottish people and let Scotland decide."
"There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution."
"If marriage can be redefined so that it no longer means a man and a woman but two men or two women, why stop there? Why not allow three men or a woman and two men to constitute a marriage?"
"The church's teaching on marriage is unequivocal, it is uniquely, the union of a man and a woman and it is wrong that governments, politicians or parliaments should seek to alter or destroy that reality."
"No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage."
"I know there are a lot of readers that think I've got a very crappy marriage just because of the things going on with Rick and Lori but there's really nothing that's been like a mirror. I'm just making this stuff up."
"I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family."
"I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy."
"I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids."
"I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it."
"I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman."
"That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage."
"I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is."
"What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters."
"I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married."
"If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage."
"I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights."
"To us marriage is first, everything else is second."
"It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority."
"I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do."
"You're not just going out there, maybe sacrificing your own life. There's also sacrifices still going on at home. You can serve in the military and have a good marriage, but you just need to be aware of it so you can take those steps to take care of it."
"I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter."
"Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become."
"The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably."
"Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist."
"Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues and it has not helped."
"College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage."
"The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds."
"Stability is why society has an interest in marriage."
"I used to have a theory actually that, if you've had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of money in the bank, you're going to make a lousy comedian."
"It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain."
"I think there are some people in life who are not marriage material and Chris is one of them."
"We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman."
"I think that every state in the union should recognize same-sex marriage."
"There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage."
"The whole Haley-Nathan marriage deal was a pretty good twist huh? I hope we got all of you with it. That particular story line even suprised me when I read it, it's a good one and it'll provide for some good stories to come."
"Although we hardly see each other off the set, Joy and I get along well when we do. As far as the marriage between Nathan and Haley, I think they are young and will see the reality of the situation eventually."
"Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit."
"I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth."
"Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman."
"I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?"
"I listen to the people. That was a big reason for my life, maybe the main reason, I'm singing because I love it when people say to me, 'Thank you.' I thank them. It's a marriage."
"I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted."
"Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond."
"I think I'm a combination of very simple pleasures and the fact I've read a lot of books. I don't think it's a binary opposition across the board in humans and I think I'm an example that it's not. I'm hosting gay marriage rallies and I have tons of guns at home. There's a lot of middle ground in the world and I'm one of those people."
"The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future."
"I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage."
"Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate."
"I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage."
"I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again."
"I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?"
"In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them."
"Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states."
"Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman."
"I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes."
"I have a very intense marriage."
"My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal and in that city I spent most of my life."
"I was made to believe there was a plan in place for ending Donald's previous marriage. I pulled away because I wanted to allow him the time to deal with his wife."
"I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there."
"I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages."
"I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage."
"People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.'"
"So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me."
"When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary."
"My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started."
"I believe in the sanctity of marriage."
"At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman."
"I was one of 14 senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act. I thought it was a harsh and unnecessary thing to do to people across this country who care enough about each other to want to be married."
"It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land."
"Gay marriage has jumped out of the closet on to the front page. Everyone from the president of the U.S. to retired four-star general Colin Powell is embracing the issue, now supported by most Americans. Still, a few people, like former First Lady Laura Bush appear to be conflicted."
"Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug."
"I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry."
"Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman."
"Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished."
"Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman."
"Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home."
"There are going to be peaks and valleys in everything - in your marriage, in your job, in your life. So just enjoy the peaks and ride out the valleys. Just try not to do anything too rash."
"After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky."
"I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't."
"You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time."
"A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship."
"We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise."
"I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others."
"I think gay marriage should be the national law."
"I've never quite understood why people marry marriage is just an invented structure."
"Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen."
"I'm not really interested in thinking about marriage or kids at all."
"To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?"
"I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.'"
"The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there."
"Obama's position on marriage is brazenly cynical."
"I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people want to make sure that this definition of marriage remains secure, because after all, the family is the fundamental unit of government."
"I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008."
"I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month."
"Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America."
"We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem."
"It's nice to be able to work I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it."
"It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous."
"I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership."
"I definitely believe in marriage."
"Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family."
"Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting."
"We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage."
"My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20."
"Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage."
"I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage."
"Marriage isn't a carnival ride."
"Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit."
"Since I've been in the U.S. I've lost the back of my heart, 15 ft. of intestine and my marriage - and God, I miss my intestine."
"Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement."
"Same-sex marriage is not the future."
"When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites instead it fragments."
"I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26."
"If it's not working before you get married, marriage isn't going to fix it."
"I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention."
"But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating."
"If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it."
"There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy."
"I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time."
"Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy."
"I support allowing gay couples to marry because of - not in spite of - my values. And many of those values are the same ones deeply held by those who do not believe in gay marriage."
"When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner 'til death do you part.'"
"So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment."
"Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society."
"Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children."
"But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage."
"If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone."
"Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights."
"American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them."
"Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done."
"I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids."
"In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you."
"No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office."
"Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up."
"There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.'"
"I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage."
"My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it."
"I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison."
"The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him."
"I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'"
"I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this."
"I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really."
"I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal."
"I went nearly 30 years without being able to really seriously entertain marriage or a family. In fact, the word 'marriage' would actually give me a shake when it was brought up."
"The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters."
"What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married."
"I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare."
"To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious."
"Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time."
"I never thought my marriage could be stronger, or I could be closer to Bill. We prayed on our own, but now we prayed together and you'll never know how much that means until you do it."
"Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws."
"I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law."
"My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family."
"My relationship with Dean was great, but ultimately it wasn't a fulfilling marriage for either of us."
"What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?"
"I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage."
"Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful."
"I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea."
"Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense."
"Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit."
"Marriage gives you a new respect for a person."
"My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, 'You can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.'"
"I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks."
"My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved."
"French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow."
"Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it."
"My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other."
"Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection."
"You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman, but they understand that they are moving inevitably, catching up to the American public."
"Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships."
"Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?"
"I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley."
"I am hoping this is my year to have children. I understand that I am possibly more European in my views of marriage. I am not going to say I'm not going to get married, but it's not my priority."
"Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults."
"I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking."
"My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like."
"My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way."
"Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence."
"It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both."
"If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage."
"I still believe in marriage."
"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker."
"I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage."
"My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture."
"Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble."
"I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the symptoms worse and everyone in the house paid the price."
"I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage."
"You can't wake up one day and say 'I'm for gay marriage, ' and wake up the next day and say 'I'm against it.' Wake up one day and say, 'I'm pro-choice, ' and the next day wake up and say, 'I'm pro-life.' There's no credibility there."
"I'm not a marriage expert, quite clearly."
"I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law."
"I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily."
"A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement."
"What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back you have to be a kind of team going through life."
"For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities."
"I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed."
"I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody."
"Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?"
"The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage."
"Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged."
"After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!"
"She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over."
"My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce."
"I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years."
"I like being independent. I don't think that marriage means you're not independent, but right now I'm very comfortable, and I'm probably the happiest I've ever been. I feel solid. I feel safe."
"Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature."
"I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us."
"No, I think marriage is a great thing."
"Marriage is like a formality for me."
"The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most."
"I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage."
"Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and a woman."
"If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex, ' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes."
"My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers."
"Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity."
"If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing."
"There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred."
"Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior."
"How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?"
"I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage."
"I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible."
"I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes."
"A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead."
"There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you."
"Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?"
"It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage and they must even change their name."
"My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol."
"Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people."
"The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest."
"My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned."
"I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget."
"My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby."
"How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business."
"Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband."
"I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage."
"I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage."
"Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law."
"Marriage is something that needs to be worked on every day. I don't know if I'm the one to give marital advice since I've only been married for a little over a year, but marriage is certainly easier if you are open, trusting and loving."
"You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different."
"Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once."
"Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father."
"I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough."
"Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay."
"The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place."
"I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation."
"Marriage can be expensive, and if I lose millions then it'll be the best millions I've spent."
"I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot."
"It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage."
"The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults."
"I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment."
"Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself."
"I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years."
"There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side."
"Success is hard in general for most women. We now have such busy lives, and we're told we can do everything - you know, we can have the relationship and the marriage and the kids and the career."
"And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned."
"I'd love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, 'How do you make your marriage work?' I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He's this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor."
"In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents."
"I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me."
"I love the idea of marriage. I definitely want marriage and little Kellans running around."
"I think marriage is ghastly."
"There are many things that keep me from getting married. But there will be a time when marriage makes sense to me."
"Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle."
"I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been."
"My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected."
"Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on."
"Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional."
"Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage."
"Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan."
"I am much more open to plural marriage than I was before, and I now support it in certain situations. I do believe it is right for some people. But our example in America today is gross abuse - I can't support it in fundamentalist compounds."
"My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community."
"I've always been wary of marriage."
"I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for."
"But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?"
"For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both."
"I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them."
"You know, there were major problems in my marriage."
"God invented concubinage, satan marriage."
"In marriage, it's always that give and take and rebalancing that we have to do in how we can help each other. But, I have been known at times by my sons, that is the name that they call me-the Mitt stabilizer."
"Well you know, I think a lot of us in marriage know that you play different roles at different times. And Mitt can get very intense, and I can have the ability to kind of talk him off the rails sometimes and say, 'Hey let's look at what is really important and let's do that now.'"
"The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees."
"I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It's not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I'll do it because it's a moment that will stick with me forever."
"In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship."
"This marriage is no one's business but our own."
"I have a lot of respect for marriage."
"It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward."
"Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned."
"The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great."
"On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette, ' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying, 'Let's date.' Everyone knows those aren't the same things."
"I'm an advocate for gay marriage. I have more gay friends than Carter has pills."
"Sometimes divorce is better than marriage."
"I don't know if I'm built for marriage."
"Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it."
"It's so easy to grow apart marriage takes work."
"Is marriage for ever? I think you get married with the intention that it will be, but who knows?"
"When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early."
"And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way."
"While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage."
"The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell."
"I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be."
"Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth."
"I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the right girl, the life I had before - being single, in a band, girls everywhere - would be over."
"In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known."
"The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it absolutely should be decided by the Supreme Court as quickly as possible. It's a 14th Amendment issue. There's no argument about it."
"Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!"
"I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse."
"I was born to be married. I just feel comfortable there. I love the idea of being partnered for ever. I love my girlfriend, we've been best friends since I was 18. There's not a thing we haven't been through except for marriage... We've had talks about what we would name our kids since we were in our 20s."
"A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one."
"Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal."
"I believe in traditional marriage."
"Most Americans don't care about gay marriage."
"You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse."
"Marriage is hard work, period."
"I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage."
"Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes."
"Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion."
"There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you, and all at once."
"I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more."
"I've had two terrific relationships, but both ended in marriage."
"Marriage is a religious and state issue."
"Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?"
"People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier."
"A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit."
"I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other we have fun together - it's great."
"A miracle... my biggest accomplishment is my marriage so far. Because it's hard, everyone knows it's hard."
"Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore."
"Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass."
"Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief."
"There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage."
"Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it."
"I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have."
"I'm all for same-sex marriage."
"It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage."
"One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance."
"The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all."
"Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage."
"There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage."
"If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does."
"The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage."
"I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard."
"I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye."
"My father was very big on marriage."
"In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving."
"Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage."
"I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing."
"I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all."
"Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising."
"The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop."
"That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds."
"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."
"Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there."
"I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination."
"In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing."
"For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do."
"I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children."
"Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce."
"I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't."
"I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits."
"Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be."
"I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president."
"Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order."
"Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage."
"Marriage is a big deal, but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for a minute?"
"Marriage is gonna be your stability through everything."
"Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage."
"Marriage is a risk I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit."
"Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man."
"Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius."
"Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people."
"I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage."
"I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other."
"Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!"
"There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce."
"A good marriage is different to a happy marriage."
"Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself."
"Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people."
"When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage."
"Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it."
"My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman."
"It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed."
"I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. That's my view, and that'll be the view of our state because I wouldn't sign a bill that - like the one that was in New York."
"To me marriage is for five or ten years."
"A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other."
"When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself."
"Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense."
"Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands."
"I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy."
"Marriage has just never interested me."
"Marriage, at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40."
"I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage."
"There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself."
"Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage."
"The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding."
"Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave."
"Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state."
"Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?"
"You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman."
"Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated."
"Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand."
"Love before marriage is absolutely necessary."
"Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends."
"My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War."
"The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord."
"I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred."
"I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me."
"I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage."
"I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me."
"I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act."
"It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility."
"I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married."
"Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue."
"If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam."
"Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance."
"After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love."
"Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously."
"I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right."
"Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers."
"After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful."
"I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two."
"Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage."
"I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that."
"There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage."
"It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't."
"Marriage is obsolete and a trap."
"In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent."
"I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people."
"Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman."
"When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore."
"The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity."
"The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy."
"I'll always be sad that my marriage ended."
"The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?"
"Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?"
"Marriage is socialism among two people."
"Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it."
"Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty."
"I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight."
"The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions."
"During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage."
"Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner."
"The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman."
"In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me."
"Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash."
"I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen."
"The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population."
"I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me."
"The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so."
"I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage."
"Love, the quest marriage, the conquest divorce, the inquest."
"I firmly believe in marriage. It's a real important decision that takes a lot of dedication and time. If you're thinking about divorce. You shouldn't get married."
"Inspirations never go in for long engagements they demand immediate marriage to action."
"But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall."
"What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage."
"I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one."
"I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific."
"I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer."
"The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year."
"Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage."
"Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms."
"A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh."
"Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage."
"Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man."
"It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort."
"Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership."
"Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends."
"Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day."
"After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate."
"Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory."
"I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children."
"I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce."
"I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage."
"Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box."
"Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage."
"Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed."
"I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society."
"Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three."
"Marriage is the tomb of love."
"I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage."
"I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry."
"After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him."
"Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking."
"I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman."
"Gay marriage is going to happen. It must."
"Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you."
"A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after."
"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast."
"Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play."
"Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation."
"Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome."
"Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage."
"But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together it's how our differences work together."
"Books and marriage go ill together."
"I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called."
"Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten."
"In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do."
"Marriage changes everything."
"I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself you want to try even harder to make it work."
"A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting."
"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."
"Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?"
"Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough."
"I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way."
"I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed."
"Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?"
"A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends."
"A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises."
"I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much."
"Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?"
"I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this."
"A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life."
"More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed."
"An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know."
"Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults."
"Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the 'will of the people' goes out the window."
"Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest."
"Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway."
"After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her."
"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."
"Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce."
"A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be."
"Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable."
"I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them."
"Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it."
"I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships."
"Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?"
"My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend."
"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."
"We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together."
"I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing."
"Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman."
"In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage."
"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end."
"In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being."
"Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes."
"Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest."
"You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage."
"I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people."
"Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution."
"I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right."
"I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution."
"My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way."
"Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient."
"My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself."
"I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman."
"What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job."
"Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty."
"Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses."
"I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying."
"I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman."
"I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero."
"I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers."
"There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage."
"Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity."
"Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men."
"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent."
"I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us."
"So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect."
"I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them."
"How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive."
"There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them."
"Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation."
"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."
"I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money."
"Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day."
"Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth."
"Marriage is a financial contract I have enough contracts already."
"I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom."
"Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?"
"I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there's nothing wrong with it."
"I married beneath me, all women do."
"One was never married, and that's his hell another is, and that's his plague."
"The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married."
"I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage."
"Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive."
"Marriage is an exercise in torture."
"Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose."
"The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time."
"Marriage, like money, is still with us and, like money, progressively devalued."
"If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable."
"The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public."
"Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you."
"For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end."
"If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books."
"Marriage is a mistake every man should make."
"Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl."
"When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place."
"If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother."
"It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix."
"Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest."
"Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank."
"A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song."
"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house."
"Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature."
"Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate."
"In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape."
"I enjoy being single, but I loved being married."
"Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset."
"I like getting married, but I don't like being married."
"When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned."
"When I get married, it'll be no secret."
"Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end."
"Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about you."
"On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable."
"I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance."
"Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples."
"Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands."
"Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die."
"I've had an exciting time I married for love and got a little money along with it."
"In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued."
"The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character."
"Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'."
"I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up."
"Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own."
"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them."
"She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face."
"It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying it's separating himself from all the others."
"Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant."
"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."
"My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives."
"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman."
"They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake."
"Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance."
"It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment."
"Love is often the fruit of marriage."
"Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit."
"It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness."
"Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps."
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences."
"Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth."
"Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers."
"A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted."
"It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being."
"Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity."
"The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship."
"All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble."
"In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring."
"A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short."
"Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder."
"No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married."
"A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers."
"Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out."
"The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin."
"Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry."
"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could."
"There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded."
"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."
"A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing."
"An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't."
"Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives."
"I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out."
"Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about."
"The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less."
"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles."
"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier."
"Marriage is an adventure, like going to war."
"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."
"Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture."
"There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends."
"A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day."
"When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her."
"Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does."
"There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again."
"It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass."
"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."
"He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of."
"Never get married in college it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake."
"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."
"All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner."
"No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman."
"Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too."
"When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship."
"Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left."
"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."
"Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge."
"I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year."
"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"
"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
"A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together."
"The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret."
"If I get married, I want to be very married."
"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."
"There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about."
"I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it."
"Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory."
"Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife."
"Don't marry the person you think you can live with marry only the individual you think you can't live without."
"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."