Marriage Quotes

 

By all means marry. If you get a good wife        you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one          you’ll become a philosopher.|Socrates

It is not a lack of love          but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.|Friedrich Nietzsche

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times        always with the same person.|Mignon McLaughlin

Happy is the man who finds a true friend and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.|Franz Schubert

To keep your marriage brimming  With love in the loving cup           Whenever you’re wrong     admit it; Whenever you’re right      shut up.|Ogden Nash

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.|Winston Churchill

 

 

Marriage is a wonderful institution           but who wants to live in an institution?|Groucho Marx

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell           it is simply purgatory.|Abraham Lincoln

Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without.|James Dobson

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage         half shut afterwards.|Benjamin Franklin

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home         and let him make her sorry to see him leave.|Martin Luther

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.|Henny Youngman

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.|Booth Tarkington

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.|John Lyly

A good husband makes a good wife.|John Florio

When a man steals your wife          there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.|Sacha Guitry

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.|Andre Maurois

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.|Homer

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.|Oscar Wilde

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again    so is a bicycle repair kit.|Billy Connolly

I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.|Rita Rudner

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.|Zsa Zsa Gabor

If I get married         I want to be very married.|Audrey Hepburn

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desperate to get out.|Michel de Montaigne

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.|Ambrose Bierce

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.|Lyndon B. Johnson

Marriage is a great institution        but I’m not ready for an institution.|Mae West

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.|John Steinbeck

Marriage resembles a pair of shears          so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions   yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.|Sydney Smith

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.|Edwin Louis Cole

There were three of us in this marriage     so it was a bit crowded.|Princess Diana

Husbands are like fires – they go out when they’re left unattended.|Cher

Instead of getting married again     I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and give her a house.|Lewis Grizzard

Marriage is not just spiritual communion it is also remembering to take out the trash.|Joyce Brothers

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.|Joey Adams

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.|W. H. Auden

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn’t even have when you were on your own.|Eddie Cantor

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.|Ann Landers

My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs           but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him           he is in every way   my soulmate.|Carnie Wilson

When I get married  it’ll be no secret.|Elvis Presley

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.|George Jessel

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.|Bette Davis

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.|Herbert Spencer

Marriage should be a duet – when one sings         the other claps.|Joe Murray

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.|Clint Eastwood

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children  they just about throw up.|Barbara Bush

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.|Katharine Hepburn

Love is often the fruit of marriage.|Moliere

Love is moral even without legal marriage          but marriage is immoral without love.|Ellen Key

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.|Iris Murdoch

If you want to read about love and marriage        you’ve got to buy two separate books.|Alan King

They dream in courtship     but in wedlock wake.|Alexander Pope

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy       it lessens our cares by dividing them        at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.|Samuel Richardson

All marriages are happy. It’s the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.|Raymond Hull

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.|Anna Benson

My wife is my soul mate. I can’t imagine being without her.|Matt Damon

One advantage of marriage is that when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you            it keeps you together until you fall in again.|Judith Viorst

Marriage is a gamble           let’s be honest.|Yoko Ono

Marriage        it seems         confines every man to his proper rank.|Jean de la Bruyere

Marriage has made me a lot happier and I’m deeply in love with my wife      and I thank God for her every day.|Harry Connick   Jr.

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage           just listen to her talking to her little brother.|Sam Levenson

A husband is what is left of a lover           after the nerve has been extracted.|Helen Rowland

When women hold off from marrying men          we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women      we call it fear of commitment.|Warren Farrell

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.|Michel de Montaigne

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.|Jean Rostand

One was never married        and that’s his hell; another is          and that’s his plague.|Robert Burton

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they’re too old to do it.|Ann Bancroft

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.|Oscar Wilde

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little    praised a little          and appreciated a little.|Oliver Goldsmith

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.|David Byrne

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.|Stephen Leacock

If love means never having to say you’re sorry    then marriage means always having to say everything twice.|Estelle Getty

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.|A. P. Herbert

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.|Benjamin Disraeli

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she’s a householder.|Thornton Wilder

Faithful women are all alike           they think only of their fidelity     never of their husbands.|Jean Giraudoux

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate      the husband the landscape.|Gerald Brenan

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.|Loretta Lynn

Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.|Zsa Zsa Gabor

It’s tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips   yet she won’t drink from my glass.|Rodney Dangerfield

Marriage is an exercise in torture.|Frances Conroy

I like getting married           but I don’t like being married.|Don Adams

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.|Andre Maurois

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.|Elbert Hubbard

Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.|Linda Fiorentino

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar – a practice which is still continued.|Helen Rowland

I enjoy being single  but I loved being married.|Stephanie Mills

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.|Charles Caleb Colton

Before marriage        a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage   she has to hold him to make love to him.|Marilyn Monroe

Marriage        n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master           a mistress      and two slaves      making in all two.|Ambrose Bierce

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.|Neil Simon

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love          a little affection           a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house that’s what it means.|Henny Youngman

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.|Woody Allen

He’s the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.|Mae West

Marriages      like careers   need constant nurturing… the secret of having it all is loving it all.|Joyce Brothers

If there is such a thing as a good marriage            it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.|Michel de Montaigne

Marriage is the alliance of two people      one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.|Ogden Nash

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream and not          as it too often is            the end.|Alphonse Karr

By our Heavenly Father and only because of God          only because of God. We’re like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and   as I call them            fights and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.|Barbara Mandrell

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.|Honore de Balzac

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.|Helen Rowland

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.|H. Jackson Brown  Jr.

Where there’s marriage without love         there will be love without marriage.|Benjamin Franklin

I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.|Michael Bergin

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.|Emma Goldman

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married         and another list of the reasons for their divorce           you’d have a hell of a lot of overlapping.|Mignon McLaughlin

Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.|Alan King

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping           how can the poor man ever relax?|Jackie Kennedy

Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home  but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house.|Jean Kerr

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.|Henny Youngman

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality but must live with a character.|Peter De Vries

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They’re too considerate to get married.|Finley Peter Dunne

Marriage is a great institution.|Elizabeth Taylor

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.|Honore de Balzac

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home            and broods a nest of sorrows.|Jeremy Taylor

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.|Joseph Joubert

Well married a person has wings   poorly married shackles.|Henry Ward Beecher

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.|Lauren Bacall

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife’s spirits.|John Gay

I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend… to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.|Bill Frist

Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.|Dennis Miller

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.|Andre Maurois

But to sustain a marriage for 50 years       you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says      ‘Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.’|Ali Larter

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract           and then goes into it            deserves all the consequences.|Isadora Duncan

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren’t.|Sacha Guitry

I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness      Population: Them.|Marc Webb

When a marriage works      nothing on earth can take its place.|Helen Gahagan

When you have a baby        love is automatic     when you get married         love is earned.|Marie Osmond

Marriage        for a woman at least            hampers the two things that made life to me glorious – friendship and learning.|Jane Harrison

Marriage        like money   is still with us; and  like money   progressively devalued.|Robert Graves

Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body’s cells have been replaced         you’re meant to experience that seven-year itch.|Yoko Ono

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.|Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I don’t think my wife likes me very much when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.|Frank Carson

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.|Reese Witherspoon

I might be celibate   but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.|Keith O’Brien

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.|Tia Mowry

Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards I believe        the American family.|John Boehner

Yes     I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me      I shall say     ‘It is not good for a woman to live alone.’|Anna Held

If I get married         I think I’d pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.|Anna Held

I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.|Arnold Schwarzenegger

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.|Jerry Seinfeld

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.|Marcus Tullius Cicero

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.|Barack Obama

It was a perfect marriage. She didn’t want to and he couldn’t.|Spike Milligan

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.|Leonardo da Vinci

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which           before their union    were not perceived to have any relation.|Mark Twain

We sleep in separate rooms we have dinner apart          we take separate vacations – we’re doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.|Rodney Dangerfield

May these vows and this marriage be blessed.|Rumi

Friendship is two-sided. It isn’t a friend just because someone’s doing something nice for you. That’s a nice person. There’s friendship when you do for each other. It’s like marriage – it’s two-sided.|John Wooden

Love   the quest; marriage  the conquest; divorce         the inquest.|Helen Rowland

Friendship is the marriage of the soul       and this marriage is liable to divorce.|Voltaire

Marriage is the death of hope.|Woody Allen

I refused David Letterman’s proposal of marriage for obvious reasons           but thanks for asking.|Teri Garr

Regarding marriage  it – somehow it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.|A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition  and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather   altogether incalculable.|Soren Kierkegaard

In the hands of the ego         marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded of their failures and limited by the energies of another person. It is rife with judgment and blame.|Marianne Williamson

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.|Burt Reynolds

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.|Douglas William Jerrold

Never stay in a bad marriage          and don’t hang around with psycho coke fiends.|Joe Rogan

The great marriages are partnerships. It can’t be a great marriage without being a partnership.|Helen Mirren

When my marriage broke up… I had just put on 45 pounds for my ‘Shall We Dance?’ character. I had to eat 10         000 calories a day just to put on weight while training with Tony Dovolani. I basically stayed in bed for a six-month rotation of depression naps. Dance helped me lose the weight.|Lisa Ann Walter

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.|Kinky Friedman

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.|Omar Khayyam

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.|Henrik Ibsen

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.|Marvin Gaye

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.|Nikola Tesla

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.|Jimmy Carr

Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus          no marriage or family            no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives           mothers and fathers     men and women work together in unity of purpose       respecting and relying upon each other’s strengths.|Sheri L. Dew

Marriage is the tomb of love.|Giacomo Casanova

A lasting marriage    they say         is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me       I go right for the obituaries just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark’s spooky novel ‘Memento Mori.’|Billy Collins

Courtship is to marriage      as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.|William Congreve

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness          but stability.|Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Dancing along with family members and old friends     especially during a marriage          is a memorable experience.|The Great Khali

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.|William Shakespeare

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.|George W. Bush

Marriage is an institution and that’s where a couple finish up.|Les Dawson

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn’t have to get one.|James Carville

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings… and lawyers.|Richard Pryor

Marriage is this grand madness      and I think if people knew that      they would perhaps take it more seriously.|Bono

I am strongly pro-life          and I am not pro-gay marriage. I believe the issue of marriage must be decided by the states and by the people in the states – not by judges and not even by legislators    but by the people themselves.|Liz Cheney

I’m not for gay marriage      but I’m not for discriminating against people.|Joel Osteen

Marriage may often be a stormy lake        but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.|Thomas Love Peacock

Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness     a covenant between radically different persons  male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen            a covenant between radically different partners.|Rowan Williams

Marriage is anti-romantic – husband and wife are terms like ‘turkey’ and ‘goose.’ Worse      they denote ownership.|Thomas McGuane

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage      but some people manage to be both.|Guy de Maupassant

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?|Angela Carter

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.|Queen Victoria

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.|Dolly Parton

I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.|Bob Newhart

It’s a facet of the gay rights movement that people don’t think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn’t until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana’s ‘head and master rule            ‘ that the husband was head and master of the house.|Ruth Bader Ginsburg

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.|Gloria Steinem

Marriage        in its truest sense     is a partnership of equals   with neither exercising dominion over the other         but     rather with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.|Gordon B. Hinckley

It’s so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase ‘quality time’ means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.|Joanna Lumley

Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle not a bed of roses.|Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms     and fills cities and churches          and heaven itself.|Jeremy Taylor

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette      day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot… I’ve seen all these marriages that failed. Those people are always hollering at each other. That doesn’t work.|Jim Harrison

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.|Pope Francis

There is no clear place to draw the line once you eliminate the traditional marriage and it’s the same once you start putting limits on what guns can be used  then it’s just really easy to have laws that make them all illegal.|Louie Gohmert

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.|Brendan Behan

Every marriage is a mystery to me even the one I’m in. So I’m no expert on it.|Hillary Clinton

No union is more profound than marriage            for it embodies the highest ideals of love fidelity            devotion       sacrifice        and family. In forming a marital union    two people become something greater than they once were.|Anthony Kennedy

There is          hidden or flaunted   a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.|C. S. Lewis

Marriage is a very good thing         but I think it’s a mistake to make a habit out of it.|W. Somerset Maugham

The other stuff of marriage can fade a little bit    but as long as you can laugh with your partner  that’s everything because that’s what remains at the end of the day. I think that’s how we pick our friends and that’s how we ultimately pick who we marry.|Philip Rosenthal

Oh       how I treasure this freedom. I really do It’s a glorious   wonderful experience. I am off marriage – for life!|Lana Turner

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.|J. B. Priestley

The website is me. It’s a reflection of my personality and my interests. It’s the perfect marriage of my skills and experiences.|Perez Hilton

Marriage is a school itself. Also     having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.|Abraham Maslow

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.|Pearl S. Buck

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.|Ringo Starr

Same sex marriage   it’s not a big concern to me.|Tomi Lahren

I feel that heterosexual marriage is the more excellent way      and it surely is approved holy by the Holy Bible     and it holds so many more possibilities: the possibilities of having children of both the mother and father     the male and the female.|Robert H. Schuller

Fear paralyses you – fear of flying fear of the future     fear of leaving a rubbish marriage fear of public speaking        or whatever it is.|Annie Lennox

In my divorce           I stood up and said to my ex-wife ‘Hey   I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.’|Kevin Hart

Marriage is not all rainbows and butterflies; you have to give in to your partner’s whims every now and then    and that’s a two-way street.|Asha Parekh

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.|Mahatma Gandhi

I don’t know about marriage as much as I do know that I’d be a great father.|Tyler Perry

Proponents of same-sex marriage regularly label opponents ‘radical’ and ‘extremist.’ However      given that no society in thousands of years has allowed same-sex marriage   it is     by definition the proponents of same-sex marriage whose position is radical and extreme.|Dennis Prager

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.|Cate Blanchett

They say marriage will change you but it didn’t change me. Being in love changed me.|R. Kelly

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.|William Shatner

Before marriage        many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard            they turn into passengers. They just sit there.|J. Paul Getty

I’m so in favor of gay marriage that I even married a guy.|Dave Rubin

Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.|P. J. O’Rourke

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.|Rainer Maria Rilke

Nobody          man or woman         has ever wrecked a good marriage.|Jimmy Dean

The fact that what we believe about marriage – that it should be between a man and a woman – and that we’re pro-life somehow that becomes radical? Why is that? It’s because our culture has changed. But the truth is     culture may change people change          but the Word of God never changes         and that’s what we rest our belief system on.|Robert Jeffress

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.|Phil McGraw

Marriage is an institution    and you must be fully committed to it.|Gene Simmons

I’m not a marriage expert    quite clearly.|Cathy Freeman

Marriage is a wonderful institution           but who would want to live in an institution?|H. L. Mencken

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.|Harold Nicolson

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?|Dennis Miller

My grandmother was energetic and fearless – a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine          taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico      delivering babies. She could have become anything       but this was the 1930s        and she was forced into an arranged marriage.|Salma Hayek

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.|Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If the present Mrs. Wogan has a fault – and I must tread carefully here – if she has a fault   this gem in the diadem of womanhood is a hoarder. She never throws anything out. Which may explain the longevity of our marriage.|Terry Wogan

I’m now in my late 30s        and I’ve been thinking a lot about marriage and family. To be honest I’ve decided to push aside thoughts of marriage and personal questions for now.|Gong Yoo

I am against marriage          and I don’t give a fig for society.|Brigitte Bardot

I don’t see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.|Catherine Deneuve

Nothing tests a marriage more than insomnia or snoring.|David Linley

For me            personally    marriage is a man and a woman living together.|Angela Merkel

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony            we ‘enter into the holy estate of matrimony.’|Nancy Pearcey

It makes no sense to me that my gay friends cannot get married to each other because a certain slice of Christianity doesn’t believe in gay marriage.|Glennon Doyle Melton

Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages         whether it’s living together or being with six partners  or dedicating your life to taking care of flowers.|Sandra Bullock

My music is about where I am at the time. In ‘Raymond vs. Raymond            ‘ I was going through a lot of things         and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart    and I was suddenly a single father.|Usher

I don’t want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.|Lynn Redgrave

I like marriage. The idea.|Toni Morrison

We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration.|Alain de Botton

Woman          or more precisely put          perhaps         marriage        is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.|Franz Kafka

Marriage equality is a hustler’s feeding frenzy of gold-diggers. I campaigned for marriage equality in Maryland because I believe we should have the right to it         but I personally don’t want to get married. I don’t want to imitate the traditions of heterosexual people. I hate weddings: they make me uneasy.|John Waters

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron  staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.|Al Goldstein

As you are not yet married  and as marriage is the fundamental state of life as well as the unity of the commonwealth         make up your mind whether you are called to this state. If you make up your mind to marry         do not marry merely a good wife: marry a good mother to your children.|Vincent McNabb

I have a mental age of about 17. Far too young for marriage.|Benny Hill

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.|Peter De Vries

We want our marriage to be a triumph      not a tragedy.|Joyce Meyer

Marriage ain’t easy   but it’s great most of the time.|Sean Penn

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.|Earl Warren

We’ll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we’ll have to start thinking about that.|Prince William

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness     families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!|Russell M. Nelson

Diana became a superstar when she became a part of the Royal Family because she brought youth and glamour and fun into a staid and dusty institution          and at times she eclipsed the Prince of Wales. It was one of the early problems within their marriage.|Penny Junor

Forever          it was just soccer – passion life     love. Then I got married     and I had to transfer some of my energy. I want to be my best for my country        but I also made a really big promise and choice to be the best in my marriage. That has not always been the easiest thing to manage.|Abby Wambach

Anyone who watched George W. and Karl Rove while the former was governor of Texas will recognize a familiar pattern. Like much of Bush’s social policy – from faith-based social services to railing against gay marriage – women’s issues are one of the bones they’ve decided they can throw to the Christian right.|Molly Ivins

Above all       we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand      to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage         in reality       does not help these people.|Pope Benedict XVI

We didn’t know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage           Father threatening to take his own life.|Ingmar Bergman

Compassion  not passion   keeps a marriage together.|Betty Wright

Marriage is a sacrament      and the decision of what is a sacrament lies with the Church   not with Parliament.|Jacob Rees-Mogg

State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract        period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey.|Harvey Fierstein

The first condition of marriage between a man and a woman is that both must belong to each other totally.|Munshi Premchand

Gay rights are not primarily marriage rights        and for the millions who live in unaccepting places with no resources     dignity remains elusive. I am lucky to have forged meaning and built identity            but that’s still a rare privilege. And gay people deserve more  collectively  than the crumbs of justice.|Andrew Solomon

To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select        patrician        highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.|Antonin Scalia

I am not into marriage. You look at all the marriages breaking down and all the people cheating on their marriages          and you become cynical. Marriage is nothing but a label.|Nargis Fakhri

I just don’t find marriage a necessary step in a couple’s life.|Shakira

I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.|Nas

What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man        an animal. What would I say    that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him         only I know. And I only did it because of the child.|Qandeel Baloch

A marriage doesn’t have to be perfect       but you can be perfect for each other.|Jessica Simpson

Marriage is one long conversation chequered by disputes.|Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is the torment of one       the felicity of two    the strife and enmity of three.|Washington Irving

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.|Henry Adams

The more time you invest in a marriage    the more valuable it becomes.|Amy Grant

First love is first love           first marriage is first marriage       disappointment is disappointment.|Maximilian Schell

There may be people in my audience who may not agree with me on some particular issue – you know            say     as a gun owner         they may not agree with me           or       you know      someone may not agree with me on a gay marriage topic. Any of those things. But those shouldn’t be the reasons you listen to my music.|Brad Paisley

A beautiful woman is the best investment in marriage a man can make. And anybody who advises otherwise is talking sheer nonsense.|Fred MacMurray

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.|Jon Hamm

Some good Karma I must have done that I went from marriage from Hell to finding my real soul mate.|Raj Kundra

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage   but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.|Jim Samuels

Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.|Jeb Bush

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.|Florence King

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.|Stockwell Day

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.|Tom Petty

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.|Allan Sherman

I see marriage as a new beginning in my life.|Akhil Akkineni

A troubled marriage can be as hazardous to physical health as cigarette smoking.|Robert J. Waldinger

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.|Benjamin Spock

My first marriage was ruined by feminist indoctrination.|Mike Cernovich

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.|Mitt Romney

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.|Ian Mckellen

Well    my wife and I were married in a toilet – it was a marriage of convenience!|Tommy Cooper

Most of these alternative arrangements    so-called       arise out of the ruins of marriages not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.|Christopher Lasch

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.|George Bernard Shaw

Even before marriage I used cook delicious dishes for my wife and mother-in-law on Jamai Sasthi.|Kharaj Mukherjee

The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.|Ezra Taft Benson

The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.|Maria Montessori

In my mind    marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love            create and share intimacy   and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal           learn and grow.|Iyanla Vanzant

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.|Jon Heder

I feel that whoever isn’t feeling settled in their career won’t think about their marriage.|Ram Charan

I do think the secret to a good marriage is separate bathrooms.|Heather Dubrow

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.|Princess Margaret

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I’ve been much happier unmarried than married.|Doris Lessing

Marriage is a journey. It’s hills and valleys.|Eva Amurri

I am not married anymore. I hate marriage… but it’s okay now.|Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I think of love and marriage in the same way I do plants: We have perennials and annuals. The perennial plant blooms goes away     and comes back. The annual blooms for just a season  and then winter arrives and takes it out for good. But it’s still enriched the soil for the next flower to bloom. In the same way     no love is wasted.|Glennon Doyle Melton

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.|Kevin Gates

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.|Vanessa Kerry

Ultimately     I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices      right?|Michelle Pfeiffer

I was   in the 1960s in a marriage. To use the word ‘bad’ would be perhaps the understatement of the year. It was dreadful.|Sherwin B. Nuland

I have a terrific marriage     but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow         no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It’s kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It’s thrilling.|Hugh Jackman

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.|Lady Gaga

I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams            and that took a hot second.|Alanis Morissette

Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them            completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.|Richard Harris

It’s a life choice to be a girl chef    as it is to be a boy chef. It feels pretty natural to me. It’s a full-time            full-scale      full physical job      and a lot of times     it can take the place of kids and family. To be in this career is much more difficult for a woman to have a family       marriage – whatever that means. It’s not a 9-5 job.|Anne Burrell

I don’t think marriage is a civil right          but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.|Barack Obama

The two most important words in marriage for me are ‘yes       dear.’|Eric Close

You work on it. You talk about it. You don’t go out looking for greener grass; sometimes you have to water the grass that you have. And that’s what marriage is. Sometimes it can be hard.|Chrishell Stause

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.|Gloria Steinem

I learned to cook in self-defense. My wife doesn’t know what a kitchen is. In the first month of our marriage         she broiled lamb chops 26 nights in a row. Then I took over. I used to mind her not caring about food     but no more – as long as I can eat what I want.|Alan King

Civil marriage           like all civil rights provided by the government must be provided equally to all Americans.|Benjamin Todd Jealous

The institution of marriage works better when there’s a spiritual connection. If you’re marrying just for the sake of the woman         then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity    then it gives a much larger perspective.|A. R. Rahman

Sticking with a marriage. That’s true grit  man.|Jeff Bridges

Pink Floyd is like a marriage that’s on a permanent trial separation.|Rick Wright

I feel birth      death marriage is destined and these things can’t be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So   whenever it happens           I will accept it.|Sakshi Tanwar

Even though people may be well known  they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth    marriage and death.|Jackie Kennedy

It’s a lot of work to make a marriage work. Just because you have been married for a while doesn’t mean you can sit back and relax. You still have to be on your toes. A marriage needs constant attention.|Malaika Arora Khan

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.|Drew Barrymore

My parents were       had a marriage of passion  and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that – well    my father’s family came as Puritans to Massachusetts.|Phil Jackson

People say     ‘What’s the secret to a marriage?’ There’s no secret – I think you get lucky.|Steve Carell

I’ll say this: The media wasn’t invited to my marriage    and they’re definitely not invited into the divorce.|Ryan Reynolds

In Hungary    if homosexuals would like to live together          they can do so under the civil code. But what we call marriage is exclusively for one man and one woman. We are a Christian country. That’s a historical fact.|Viktor Orban

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.|Isabel Allende

The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise      but this is owing to the parties themselves          who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.|Samuel Adams

I am a Colorado native        and     no       I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban and I am not a member of a militia.|Connie Willis

Ultimately     my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.|Melina Kanakaredes

Marriage        in life is like a duel in the midst of a battle.|Edmond About

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.|Robert Anton Wilson

I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.|Ben Nighthorse Campbell

Since the dawn of time        traditional marriage – the union between one man and one woman – has been the building block of civilization     and at no point in our nation’s history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.|Jim DeMint

The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.|Sacha Guitry

The secret to a long marriage in the film industry? Marry someone wonderful         as I did. And always have her come along on location.|Christopher Lee

I’d love for Samantha to continue acting after our marriage. She has worked hard to achieve her stardom. Unlike me      she had no family empire to back her career in Telugu cinema.|Naga Chaitanya

Marriage is a walk in the park compared to being a single mother or father. I’ll take that walk later.|Sophie B. Hawkins

When people get married because they think it’s a long-time love affair         they’ll be divorced very soon    because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.|Joseph Campbell

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.|Denis Diderot

May this marriage be full of laughter        our every day in paradise.|Rumi

As to marriage or celibacy  let a man take which course he will          he will be sure to repent.|Socrates

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.|Stephen Harper

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage      which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful   it’s just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.|Thomas Haden Church

I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn’t ready. I just knew if I committed    I would’ve wound up doing something wrong messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.|Queen Latifah

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.|Oscar Wilde

Marriage is an institution that existed before governments existed. It’s something that reflects nature and reflects God and God’s will for us. And both from the standpoint of faith and reason it makes all the sense in the world. And it’s beneficial for society.|Rick Santorum

Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day.|Barbara De Angelis

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.|Candace Cameron Bure

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.|Malcolm Turnbull

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.|Germaine Greer

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.|Robert Louis Stevenson

‘Marley and Me’ was a book I was proud of and believed in     but I thought it would just have a modest audience because it is such a personal story about my marriage and my family.|John Grogan

My parents are conservative. They really weren’t in support of us dating before marriage.|Aishwarya R. Dhanush

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.|Peter De Vries

Whether people choose to have same sex relationships or relationships outside the marriage – whatever happens between two consenting adults should be purely their business        not the state’s or the society’s.|Kabir Bedi

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe      however        that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.|Voltaire

After marriage          every woman wants to settle down and have children. I have no regrets. I was occupied in my little world enjoying each and every experience that came my way.|Sridevi

It was the only ambition I ever had – not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star    but to be a housewife in a good marriage.|Doris Day

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.|Jack Nicholson

A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.|Tori Amos

To me marriage is for five or ten years.|Cher

If variety is the spice of life marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.|Johnny Carson

To an honest judge   the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow           empty spin-doctored sham.|Richard Dawkins

I couldn’t bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.|Clive Owen

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.|John Updike

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.|Faith Evans

There comes a crossroads in every marriage where you grow together or grow apart. I outgrew Len. He wanted me to be in that leather jumpsuit for the rest of my life and do nothing else. He constrained me. It got to a point where the marriage died or I did.|Suzi Quatro

I’m the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.|Mickey Rooney

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover        no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws  Constitution and legal precedents.|John Sununu

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion        gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear       and I am a son of the church         but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.|Pope Francis

I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words ‘gay community.’ Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.|Larry Kramer

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.|J. Paul Getty

A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is  somebody owes somebody money.|Goldie Hawn

I never looked at my parents’ marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought           ‘I gotta get me some of that!’|Mike Birbiglia

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.|Herbert Spencer

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.|Margaret Cavendish

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.|Sydney J. Harris

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.|Stockwell Day

I’ve often thought if I didn’t make my marriage work     I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.|Bethenny Frankel

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals       religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?|Christopher Hampton

I don’t believe what I do outside my profession is anybody’s’ business. And that includes a personal thing like pregnancy or even marriage.|Sushmita Sen

Marriage requires a special talent  like acting. Monogamy requires genius.|Warren Beatty

It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea     only God could have thought of it.|Myles Munroe

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.|George Bernard Shaw

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.|Rita Rudner

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.|Pearl S. Buck

When people do marriage right      they don’t complain so much         and so their voices are silenced by the rabble of promiscuous charlatans peddling their pathetic world view as ‘progressive.’|Steven Crowder

My greatest concern is that Mitt Romney seldom addresses the social issues publicly… I’m referring to the sanctity of human life    the traditional definition of marriage       and religious liberty.|James Dobson

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.|Barack Obama

The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage     partial-birth abortions and human cloning          but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.|Paul Bloom

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.|Nicolas Chamfort

A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork.|Gad Saad

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.|Utada Hikaru

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.|Lafcadio Hearn

I think like any marriage     especially when you’ve had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.|Princess Diana

Marriage is… OK      it’s rooted and grounded on love and attraction.|Mary Archer

The marriage didn’t work out but the separation is great.|Liz Smith

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True            a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage         but Kim and I don’t have one.|Robert Kiyosaki

Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It’s all about who you pick; in that first moment        did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who’s more interested in being married than in getting married.|Rob Lowe

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.|Catherine Deneuve

The truth is you can have a great marriage           but there are still no guarantees.|Demi Moore

I am a fan of marriage and a fan of being committed to the right person.|Joan Collins

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.|Helen Rowland

On the question of marriage           as in all other respects        Lutheranism is a compromise       a bridge between two logical views of the universe: the Catholic-Christian and the Individualistic Monist. And bridges are made to go over   not to stand upon.|Ellen Key

I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.|Rashida Jones

My marriage to my husband          Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.|Nadia Comaneci

It’s nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.|Carrie Underwood

My marriage is on the rocks again yeah   my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.|Rodney Dangerfield

Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light… You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.|Amy Grant

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.|Jane Austen

For working mothers           creating a work-life balance is critical     as we must ensure we do not neglect any significant part of our lives – our children   our family’s health  our own health and fitness our marriage and     of course       our careers.|Sonali Bendre

My own personal     moral spiritual        religious        etc. beliefs don’t oppose same-gender marriage.|Ed Case

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice    stops it from getting boring… I ought to know.|Bette Davis

When people get married young    you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.|Kevin Hart

I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.|Corrine Brown

My feelings on homosexuality are unequivocal. I have absolutely no problem with it whatsoever. My only reservation is marriage.|Carl Paladino

After marriage          most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.|Manju Warrier

There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage       as you know fell apart.|Deidre Hall

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.|Jesse Helms

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.|Tim Allen

The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there.|James Denton

In marriage    a man becomes slack and selfish  and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.|Robert Louis Stevenson

Let me be clear. I support the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.|Ben Nelson

It is so calming         marriage.|Ruby Dee

I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it  and I didn’t even enjoy being with the man. Also      I wanted to study     but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life     it wasn’t a happy situation. Because of some family problems     I had to stick around.|Qandeel Baloch

The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It’s an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.|Adam McKay

My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.|Ben Carson

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.|L. Ron Hubbard

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.|Richard G. Scott

If we abandon marriage       we abandon the family.|Michael Enzi

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes and far more expensive.|Oscar Wilde

It’s not easy to walk out on a marriage and two young kids       and it’s the most difficult thing I’ve ever had to do.|Bob Hoskins

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.|Bill Shuster

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.|Rutherford B. Hayes

I say to my children the reason that marriage – and having children – is so important is that it stops you thinking about yourself. The way to happiness is to give yourself to others and to think of others before you think of yourself.|Terry Wogan

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.|Marc Chagall

In the face of love    everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen         and I support marriage equality.|Tsai Ing-wen

Someone asked me recently if marriage is 50-50 – it averages out to be 50-50          but sometimes it’s 75-25  sometimes it’s 90-10. In the end    it has to average out to be 50-50; that’s how you support each other.|Linda McMahon

Marriage        a market which has nothing free but the entrance.|Michel de Montaigne

When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant   they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.|Ezra Taft Benson

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.|Hedy Lamarr

Families are not merely constructs of outdated convention       and traditional marriage laws were not based on animosity toward homosexuals. Rather I believe that the traditional family structure – centered on a lawful union between one man and one woman – comports with nature and with our Judeo-Christian moral tradition.|Charles T. Canady

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.|Amanda Holden

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.|Mary Wesley

After marriage          the other man’s wife looks more beautiful.|Navjot Singh Sidhu

Where I stand comes from my upbringing and my faith: I’m 100 percent pro-life and I believe in traditional marriage.|Mike Braun

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.|Vera Brittain

Marriage has changed things. I have my own family now.|Lin Dan

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.|H. L. Mencken

When you genuinely feel like that was the right relationship    you’re supposed to give it all you can. That’s what marriage is about.|Khloe Kardashian

We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage            and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.|Jerry Falwell

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in     you take it out          you lose interest.|Irwin Corey

There’s no formula that can make a marriage work. Sometimes two people just click.|Rishi Kapoor

Isn’t that the ultimate homeland security  standing up and defending marriage?|Rick Santorum

The truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death.|Shakira

Books and marriage go ill together.|Moliere

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.|Marisa Tomei

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is            that one is male and the other female.|Anna Quindlen

The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage  yet marriage cannot dispense with love        is already partially recognized by modern society         by the facility of divorce.|Ellen Key

In marriage    someone has to be a giver and someone a taker. I am a taker who married a giver.|Robert Preston

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.|Alan Keyes

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.|George Eliot

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.|Alan Autry

I believe that if man and woman cherish the same ideals and think alike        then the marriage can be complementary to each other’s work instead of being a hindrance.|Munshi Premchand

Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.|LaToya Jackson

I’ve always been clear          I support the traditional definition of marriage.|Stephen Harper

I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.|Kyle Chandler

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.|Linda McCartney

I think marriage is all about timing.|Cate Blanchett

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.|Amy Grant

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.|Helen Rowland

Odd     the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead      the next job  publication            love affair     marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never      in the longer run      sufficed.|Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

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.|John Selden

I told my wife that I want to take a three-year break. She supported me and said      ‘Please go ahead.’ I am grateful that she supported me. For me        this romance and understanding is very important in our marriage.|R. Madhavan

I’m certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage        but it somehow eludes them.|James Dobson

My advice to Robin is listen to your heart            do what you feel. Follow your heart in love and marriage as you would in careers  and you’ll be fine. Robin has a great heart. He’s a fabulous father.|Alan Thicke

Marriage is a wonderful thing.|Patrick McGoohan

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.|Charlie Sheen

Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility      or ‘the ability to vote with your feet.’ If you don’t support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol – don’t come to Texas. If you don’t like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage         don’t move to California.|Rick Perry

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.|Helen Rowland

There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness   which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.|P. J. O’Rourke

Life is too short to exclude experiences. And that includes marriage.|Antara Mali

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.|Barack Obama

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.|George Gobel

I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.|Ed Case

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.|Erica Jong

My marriage to Chasten has made me a better man.|Pete Buttigieg

TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He’d been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children.|Lucille Ball

Issues over same-sex marriage and LGBT people in the PCUSA are not new: there is a 40-plus year history of arguments and tacit agreements over the issue of sexuality in the denomination and the first openly gay minister in the PCUSA was ordained in 2011.|Anthea Butler

Time turns the old days to derision           Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.|Algernon Charles Swinburne

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.|Adam Levine

The government shouldn’t be involved in this because it’s very simple. If you don’t believe in same-sex marriage         then don’t marry somebody of the same sex.|Wanda Sykes

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.|Joan Cusack

I don’t know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family           love and children.|Penelope Cruz

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.|Alexander Theroux

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.|Indra Nooyi

My father was very big on marriage.|Sidney Poitier

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.|Sam Ewing

Marriage        laws   the police      armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.|Dora Russell

I know plenty of people my age that will never get married because they genuinely believe the false cultural meme that marriage has sadly become. There’s only one problem. It’s completely untrue.|Steven Crowder

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.|Debra Winger

Divorce these days is a religious vow       as if the proper offspring of marriage.|Tertullian

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.|Doug Stanhope

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.|Phil McGraw

My friends     they get married at 15 years old. I saw them with bruises on their faces. I realized this is the real face of child marriage.|Sonita Alizadeh

Marriage is a mystery          and part of it is just being kind to each other      not being selfish.|Aisha Tyler

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.|Robert Anderson

Marriage is give and take. You’d better give it to her or she’ll take it anyway.|Joey Adams

When my mother had four girls     and she could tell her marriage was falling apart           she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.|Andie MacDowell

I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father           the male and the female     sort of gradually having their marriage.|Bede Griffiths

I believe that marriage is an important part of life. So when it happens          I will definitely let the whole world know.|Anushka Shetty

Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home.|Timbaland

When Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the same-sex marriage bill       my blood was boiling. I had been silent     but that night            Brad and I watched the news and saw all these young people pouring out on Santa Monica Boulevard venting their rage       and I said      ‘I have to speak out.’|George Takei

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.|Mary Augusta Ward

I view marriage as a sacred institution. I think two men naturally are predators. Gay relationships are a commercial break     not a whole movie.|Pete Burns

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.|Robert Louis Stevenson

Each marriage has to be judged separately          and we never know what’s going on in another person’s marriage.|Mary Wesley

While I believe in marriage as an institution       I am also petrified of it.|Shahid Kapoor

Even prior to marriage and motherhood   it’s always been about prioritising and focusing on what you can commit to. That’s been my approach to every aspect of my life     be it my relationships or my professional commitments.|Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.|Maria Callas

There is a kind of woman who is economically powerful         professionally powerful     who threatens a white male grip on power that has a long historic precedent in the country. Independent women living outside of marriage threaten all kinds of things about the way power is supposed to work.|Rebecca Traister

Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who’s miserable in it – men and women alike – and anyone who’s suffered through difficult periods in marriage dreams of escape from it.|Adam Ross

Of course I love being in love – but it is marriage that really fulfills me. But not in every case.|Zsa Zsa Gabor

Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words.|Adam Goldberg

I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism    I didn’t think you had any choice. In fact for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn’t see any marriages I wanted to emulate            so I kept putting it off.|Gloria Steinem

In marriage    there’s a lot of ignoring each other           which is hard to fake on-screen.|Paul Bettany

Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God’s law.|Jerry Falwell

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.|George Bernard Shaw

I believe in the institution of marriage      but one can’t fix a time for it. Please don’t predict it for me.|Ranbir Kapoor

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.’|Amanda Bynes

When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William’s marriage            I knew I had to give them a little something. ‘Wet’ is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin’.|Snoop Dogg

A sense of humor is great – it goes a long long way in a marriage.|Chris Rock

I think marriage is beautiful           but I have mixed feelings about it.|Ileana D’Cruz

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.|Conan O’Brien

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.|Jenna Fischer

Alzheimer’s disease is never an ‘accident’ in a marriage. It falls under the purview of God’s sovereignty. In the case of someone with Alzheimer’s  this means God’s unconditional and sacrificial love has an opportunity to be even more gloriously displayed in a life together.|Joni Eareckson Tada

My platform for activism is my music      and the issue I am working to address is child marriage. Everyone can find an issue that they care about and their own authentic way of expressing and sharing their message and working for change. When you speak authentically about something that matters to you     your voice has even more power.|Sonita Alizadeh

I think infidelity is difficult monogamy is difficult        and marriage is difficult.|Maura Tierney

No persons professing to be Christians should enter the marriage relation until the matter has been carefully and prayerfully considered from an elevated standpoint       to see if God can be glorified by the union.|Ellen G. White

The only reason I got married in 2003 was for my children. I had a therapist who said marriage is really a container for a family       and that made sense to me.|Julianne Moore

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.|Michael J. Fox

To be here in America so soon after the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage and at the birth of the Caitlyn phenomena feels so timely. It feels perfect for my universe to collide with Caitlyn’s          but on a purely personal level   I just think she is utterly fabulous and brave.|Boy George

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.|Bridget Moynahan

I’d like to have a successful marriage        not for the sake of labelling or branding  but because I believe in the institution of marriage.|Sonam Kapoor

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel – according to the actor’s marriage to the character.|Kate Mulgrew

I’ve always had bizarre        negative feelings about anything traditional       like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.|Gerard Way

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.|Judith Wright

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.|Richard Armour

Marriage is absolutely not something I’m scared of        but it isn’t necessarily the be-all and end-all.|James William Middleton

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.|Dennis Rodman

I wanted to be the first girl in my class to get married. From the seventh grade on    I used to write in my yearbook under each senior’s picture ‘married’ or ‘engaged.’ I had marriage on the brain.|Shirley Temple

I think that marriage is         dare I say it   between a man and a woman         hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised     but I don’t know that they can be recognised as marriage.|Tony Abbott

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.|Ron Paul

I am an activist and rapper from Afghanistan      and I use rap to speak out and help end child marriage.|Sonita Alizadeh

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.|Ricky Schroder

I find it extremely ironic that Bush says that personal opinion should not be a tool in the interpretation of the Constitution   when he’s the one who’s lobbying for a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. If that doesn’t stem from personal opinion     I don’t know what does.|Jessi Klein

On the one hand       the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand     I long for it   you know what I mean? I’m constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I’ve been on.|Madonna Ciccone

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand   to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage          in reality does not help these people.|Pope Benedict XVI

No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.|Dick Morris

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.|Lafcadio Hearn

Sadly  marriage has become a punchline in today’s society. From referring to the wife as ‘the old ball and chain’ to nearly every poorly written sitcom that we watch            the message we’re sending to today’s generation is clear… Marriage = no fun.|Steven Crowder

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.|Norman Lear

It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic – another joke marriage.|Sophia Bush

Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians            don’t wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not ‘wait’ for their civil rights  nor should you. The toothpaste ain’t going back in the tube. The tide has turned.|John Ridley

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.|James McGreevey

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private     and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.|Eminem

Divorce is not the end of the world. It’s worse to stay in an unhealthy marriage. That’s a worse example for the children.|Jerry Hall

Getting divorced didn’t sour me on the institution of marriage. I’ll tell you what I’ll never do: I’ll never get divorced again.|Eddie Murphy

I think marriage is a cultural thing – it’s my opinion that nature doesn’t tell someone to get married.|Abhay Deol

The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt – people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No      the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore.|Ian Mckellen

When a marriage founders this may well be cause for tremendous sadness but it’s not a failure of spirit or character. People change  their goals and dreams alter           their ideas of themselves grow            or they just meet someone they like better.|Naomi Alderman

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.|Mika Brzezinski

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don’t know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.|Burt Lancaster

I’ve never thought about marriage or children.|James May

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.|Alain de Botton

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.|Lisa Marie Presley

Mum worked for a London dressmaker before she married. When she was forced to give up work after her marriage  she carried on dressmaking for people at home.|Vera Lynn

A hundred years ago if you had a child out of marriage you’d be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.|Helen Fisher

The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered over the church in the early 1840s after rumors spread that its founder          Joseph Smith            had taken up the practice of polygamy. While denying the charge in public          by 1843 Smith had shared a revelation with his closest disciples.|Scott Anderson

Rituals            anthropologists will tell us are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage            baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage     the crossing of a critical threshold or in other words     with transformation.|Abraham Verghese

God’s word says for a man and a woman to be together one man and one woman in the covenant of marriage to be together.|Israel Folau

I had 53 years of happy marriage and two daughters. These were the best things that happened in my life.|Henry Allingham

I loved being in love I loved my marriage and being married and all that stuff.|Chris Harrison

Marriage has made me safer.|Kate Winslet

The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union    there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips. What is involved is love for the entire family that one is marrying into.|Dada Vaswani

Marriage can be work          it can be difficult     it can be hard           but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.|Brian Littrell

A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it’s going to work. You can’t always be there       but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you’re needed most.|Nancy Pelosi

God invented concubinage satan marriage.|Francis Picabia

I have an American son and an American partner           so marriage might logistically make sense at one point. My partner is a stay-at-home father    so if he wants to be on my health plan     or tax wise            or maybe on paper we want to have our I’s dotted and our T’s crossed           but emotionally            neither of us really feels the need for it.|Evangeline Lilly

The fact is      marriage is just a legal piece of paper. I don’t see why the government needs to get involved in what two people do with their lives. It’s none of their business.|Akshaye Khanna

Be it career or marriage       spirituality helps you believe in yourself.|Mumtaz

OK      no marriage is perfect.|Cynthia Bailey

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.|Ricky Skaggs

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.|Ernest Istook

Usually          the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.|Diane von Furstenberg

One of the great tragedies I see is people not putting every effort into the foundation of their marriage. My grandmother told me that it’s one man and one woman for life and that your marriage is worth fighting for.|Kay Robertson

I love marriage. I failed at marriage          but I’d rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.|Kirstie Alley

For someone to say that marriage is only about procreation is a joke. I didn’t marry my husband to have children. I married my husband because I love my husband.|Aisha Tyler

The American people are much more practical than Republican lawmakers on equal pay   on the minimum wage         on same-sex marriage         and on basic civil rights.|Luis Gutierrez

I want to have the kind of marriage that will last forever. The kind of marriage that will make my kids want to get married.|Riya Sen

Marriage is something I’d recommend everyone to try   if you find the right person of course.|Vidya Balan

All of us         wherever we happen to stand on the marriage equality issue   can agree that all our children deserve the opportunity to live in a loving        caring committed    and stable home       protected equally under the law.|Martin O’Malley

I don’t think Pierre Trudeau knew how to be a husband. I couldn’t stay in that marriage.|Margaret Trudeau

I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman      and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager            and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings          one from my mom’s marriage and three from my dad’s marriage  so we are kind of scattered.|Samantha Shannon

I think any husband knows when to stand down when it comes to domestic disputes. After 13 years of marriage         I even think I may have it figured out.|Al Madrigal

Within 18 months of my parents’ marriage in 1900        my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself as a gentleman but who was          in fact            nothing more than a devious adventurer.|Paul Mellon

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.|Al Goldstein

When you see a merger between two giants in a declining industry    it can look like the financial version of a couple having a baby to save a marriage.|Adam Davidson

I married my husband because I loved him          and I don’t feel like there’s anybody missing from our marriage         but when you think about this person that you love       and you think about what a wonderful thing it would be to bring another person like that into this world I think that’s the hardest part about all of it.|Aisha Tyler

Marriage        like history   cannot be expressed in words. ou have to savour it        taste it            live it and the true fun is to relive it.|Rekha

That’s my prescription for a happy marriage – marry someone who doesn’t do anything similar to what you do.|Maxine Kumin

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.|Paul Martin

Do I support the idea of gay marriage? No           I don’t.|Kirk Cameron

To a shameful extent           the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.|Alain de Botton

Marriage changes everything. I want full control over my life. When you share your life with somebody else     you can’t have full control. You have to give a lot of control away. You share each other’s lives.|Akshaye Khanna

When undertaking marriage           everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts            and take counsel from himself.|Francois Rabelais

I believe that the essence of marriage is choosing someone who loves you for who you are           embraces everything about you     and building a life with that person. Whether that life is with children or without children – it’s honestly immaterial to building a life with someone that you love fully.|Aisha Tyler

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.|Jamie Lee Curtis

I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving committed couple – gay or straight – should be able to get married.|Al Franken

To my mind   it is better to have regrets about the good aspects of your former marriage because you were able to work past some of your accumulated resentments than to have no regrets because you had to ratchet up the hostility to get out in the first place.|Stephanie Coontz

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.|Samuel Richardson

Even though marriage is doomed  if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it – it can be salvaged.|Al Goldstein

I’d have gone berserk if I hadn’t met Sargam Singh        an actress who soon became my wife. Within a year of our marriage our daughter Ameli was born. Sargam gave up her career to look after me and our daughter.|Abhimanyu Singh

Marriage doesn’t guarantee anything        it doesn’t come with perfect settings.|Riya Sen

If a marriage doesn’t work  you can’t do anything about it. I am not the kind who’ll stick on under false pretences.|Rekha

Having blown up my own long-term marriage via an extramarital affair        followed by a traumatic divorce           I tend to think of love as less a gently glowing hearth than a set of flaming train tracks you strap yourself onto.|Sandra Tsing Loh

The truth was there were four partners in our marriage. Stephen and me        motor neurone disease            and physics. If you took out motor neurone disease      you are still left with physics.|Jane Hawking

The only day I remember of my parents’ marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old with my older sister and younger brother I knew that he was gone.|Ellie Goulding

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.|NeNe Leakes

I don’t believe in the institution of marriage.|Akshaye Khanna

You will often be in despair. You will sometimes think it’s the worst decision in your life. That’s fine. That’s not a sign your marriage has gone wrong. It’s a sign that it’s normal; it’s on track. And many of the hopes that took you into the marriage will have to die in order for the marriage to continue.|Alain de Botton

Marriage is a blood sport. Marriage is jousting. It’s disembowelment. It’s just terrible         terrible visceral injuries. It’s not for everybody.|Aisha Tyler

It is so beautiful that when you watch the film    the marriage between the visuals  the music and the storytelling is seamless.|Amit Trivedi

The only sense marriage makes is to share property       your children inherit the name and all that… it is all legal reasons to get married and no reason for love.|Abhay Deol

I do believe in the traditional definition of marriage.|Liz Cheney

My parents have been married for 42 years. Their marriage has been – from what I can see – a happy one.|Roxane Gay

Marriage is the trickiest and most basic contract that we have.|Alexandra Fuller

Of course I believe in love despite four divorces. There is nobody who doesn’t believe in love. But marriage – that fits some people but obviously not me.|Sean Bean

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.|Iris Murdoch

Giving married women an independent legal existence did not destroy heterosexual marriage. And allowing husbands and wives to construct their marriages around reciprocal duties and negotiated roles – where a wife can choose to be the main breadwinner and a husband can stay home with the children – was an immense boon to many couples.|Stephanie Coontz

I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on      one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back.|Raymond Carver

Before marriage        I was a very shy person with mood swings. But now I can balance that and have become a better and stronger person.|Navya Nair

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.|Vicki Baum

For some of my friends who raise personal objections to marriage equality  they still recognize the importance of being accepting. And many of them also recognize that regardless of what they choose to believe or practice at home or at their church  that doesn’t give them the right to discriminate.|Scott Fujita

I am a big       confident      happy woman who had a loving childhood         a pleasant career      and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.|Maeve Binchy

I tried marriage. Do I advocate it? Yes. Marriage is a wonderful institution  provided you meet the right person and you be the right person.|Pooja Bhatt

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.|Sarah McLachlan

For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.|Al Goldstein

Even when I was a kid         I was never interested in any of that marriage or baby stuff.|Jane Fallon

My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don’t understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.|Kareena Kapoor Khan

Regency romances end in marriage; zombie stories end in the zombies being vanquished. ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ delivers both.|Adam Cohen

I kind of go back and forth about marriage and kids. I feel like            if it’s an organic way for me and the right time in my life       then   yeah.|Jessica Biel

The death of marriage has been announced so often and would seem so normal       in a sense. So what’s surprising is the sheer longevity and tenacity of this institution.|Alain de Botton

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.|Emily Watson

I believe in soul mates         in eternal love. Not eternal marriage.|Rekha

I’m proud of who I am. I am proud of my husband and our marriage.|Pete Buttigieg

Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.|Aisha Tyler

In my family as in all dysfunctional families     instead of parents who act as strong and nurturing role models for their children     you get these needy people who use their children. I was the kid who tried to take on the marriage.|John Bradshaw

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.|Alain de Botton

My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved   and that’s the position I take.|Nick Jonas

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.|Helen Reddy

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.|Paul Martin

Marriage is all about finding that special someone. One you are attracted to instantly and forever.|Akshaye Khanna

Marriage is hard. I’m not gonna lie.|Aisha Tyler

The cultural expectation should be if there’s infidelity   the marriage is more important than fidelity.|Dan Savage

I have celebrated Jamai Sasthi before marriage.|Kharaj Mukherjee

It’s a good marriage because each of us is what we are  allows the other one to be themselves      and appreciates each other for the right reason. You know   it’s rare that you’ll find two people who don’t try to change the other person and let everyone be what they are.|Peter Marino

My grandfather used to write one sentence every day in his journal: ‘I love Anne more than ever today.’ I think that was his meditation – keeping him in his marriage   and also his appreciation for it. It was very touching.|Justin Theroux

To me Steve was my Prince Charming. He was my happily ever after           and we got that. We got 14 years of marriage; we had the best       most fantastic          adventurous wonderful life that you could imagine. And I was very happy with that.|Terri Irwin

People would tell me           especially after my marriage to Prince     ‘You need to write a book because you’ve had a crazy life.’|Mayte Garcia

A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates’ specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion.|Lawrence M. Krauss

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.|Anthony Trollope

A man’s friendships are       like his will   invalidated by marriage – but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.|Samuel Butler

I couldn’t think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I’ve seen it destroy people.|Simon Cowell

I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.|Kelly Preston

Marriage was defined by God a long time ago. Marriage is almost as old as dirt       and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve – one man one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don’t think anyone else should either.|Kirk Cameron

I guess I just feel bad that I’m still going on bad dates when I should really be in a bad marriage by now.|Laura Kightlinger

We need to look through the lens of disparities whether it’s with health or housing or other issues for the LGBTQ community. It’s beyond just marriage         right? We need to get into that mindset in terms of where are these disparities and how do we address them.|Katie Hill

A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something       we can earn the acceptance  approval       and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.|Tullian Tchividjian

In Afghan culture     you don’t date – you marry. Even talking to boys before marriage brings great shame to your family.|Azita Ghanizada

When I was being sold into marriage        it was hard to see a future for myself.|Sonita Alizadeh

There is great mystery in a church. For me          there is a great privilege to be confronted with the design of a church because it shelters the most powerful themes of humanity: birth marriage        death.|Mario Botta

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage  to put together a family and a home.|Elizabeth Edwards

I’m a believer in arranged marriages. I mean       mine was kind of an arranged marriage. My sister introduced me to my husband. You know kind of set it up.|Neeru Bajwa

The marriage of computing and connectivity without the shackles of being tethered to a location is one of the biggest disruptive forces of modern times.|Om Malik

Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you’ve offered today.|Glennon Doyle Melton

Spanglish is the encounter: perhaps the word is marriage or divorce of English and Spanish          but also of Anglo and Hispanic civilizations – not only in the United States but in the entire continent and            perhaps         also in Spain.|Ilan Stavans

Once I hit 25 people started asking me about marriage and kids all the time. I remember hitting 35 and some would ask the same questions with a strange tone as if my life was somehow over because I hadn’t yet settled into their version of happiness.|Jedediah Bila

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.|Jennifer Garner

If you like a man and he likes you you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise   you both are going to change your minds. There’s plenty of time for that after marriage.|Zsa Zsa Gabor

When I was younger I wanted to marry early      like at 23. Year by year      I found things I wanted to do        and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don’t want to marry too late. Around 31?|Park Shin-hye

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?|Robert Downey        Jr.

Marriage equality – I think that it’s a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let’s end the drug wars. Let’s balance the federal budget  and that means reforming the entitlements – Medicaid  Medicare.|Gary Johnson

I’ve got a great life. I’m in love       I have a happy         wonderful     beautiful time with my marriage            and I have a beautiful home. I want to spend time here working and creating.|Jon Anderson

While I have supported marriage equality since my days as a state senator over a decade ago        I have since conducted an extensive legal analysis that has only emboldened my support as attorney general.|Lisa Madigan

There’s a stigma about reality shows and the people who star in them. Reality shows mean your career will end          your marriage will be cursed         you have to fight and/or throw a drink     or you’re going to end up broke and a has-been when the series ends.|Angela Yee

I’m not ready to rush into marriage.|James Tupper

Either marriage is a destiny I believe        or there is no sense in it at all        it’s a piece of humbug.|Max Frisch

There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians         more are in the green movement      more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage  single motherhood   men raising babies.|Iyanla Vanzant

Anne Wiazemsky wrote two books about her life with Jean-Luc Godard between 1966 and 1969. And I first read the second one   which is about the fall of their love story and their marriage. I immediately thought there was a movie to make with this book because it was so funny   and I thought the love story was very           very touching.|Michel Hazanavicius

If someone wants to marry you outside the temple         whom will you strive to please – God or a mortal? If you insist on a temple marriage           you will be pleasing the Lord and blessing the other party.|Ezra Taft Benson

I’m coming out of a long term marriage and I don’t want to jump into anything too serious or too much            too quick.|Shaunie O’Neal

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.|Kitty Kelley

I was at a pharmaceutical conference in Dallas and bored out of my head. I’d split up from my missus and went downtown and had my kids’ initials done        JLD    for Joseph     Luke and Daniel. Then I got back with my wife so I had her initials added during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival – after I’d waited a few years to see if the marriage would work!|John Bishop

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.|Jeanette Winterson

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.|Gary Bauer

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.|Linda Evans

Career and marriage don’t have to do anything with each other.|Ayesha Takia

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.|Norman Mailer

Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.|Sumner Redstone

While religious institutions should be able to pick and choose which unions they bless       civil governments should issue marriage licenses to all couples.|Richard Grenell

Wanted’ released right after my marriage and it turned out to be a blockbuster         but I had already made a decision to take a break. I did not time my decision and fortunately or unfortunately         it happened at a time when I delivered one of the biggest films in my career.|Ayesha Takia

Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.|Tony Dorsett

The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society        and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage – to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.|Nancy Pearcey

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.’|Mark Udall

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.|Phil Spector

I don’t regret any decision in my life… not my career     not marriage. Every experience has been so fulfilling in so many ways.|Amrita Singh

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.|Linda McCartney

We have this rule in our marriage  there’s no such thing as 50/50. Somebody is always putting in more.|Nadiya Hussain

You know the fairy-tale drill          especially from the Disney versions: the heroines endure awful stuff in rites of passage that lead to a joyous resolution of     usually          marriage to a prince. ‘Into the Woods’ follows that template         then asks       ‘What happens after Happy Ever After?’|Richard Corliss

I believe that in the historic and religious nature marriage is between a man and a woman.|Rand Paul

I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage            it was defined as between one man and one woman. It was anti-polygamy   in effect saying no man can hoard his women.|Ariel Pink

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.|Mary Augusta Ward

I always thought that marriage needs to happen at the right time          for the right reasons and with the right person.|Urmila Matondkar

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.|Seamus Heaney

Incidents happen that mean more mail. The birth of children   obviously     a sudden religious marriage         the tragic loss of a cat – I had over 2         000 letters when my cat disappeared.|Princess Michael of Kent

Every girl should be married at least once in her life. It’s a must. Because once you have been married            you are a Mrs.          and even if the marriage doesn’t work out           they can’t take that away from you.|Zsa Zsa Gabor

Marriage has given me a little family of my own. We hold each other accountable  love each other            and always are there for each other. I feel more balanced now because I know what it’s like to care for others.|Ayesha Curry

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career  marriage requires a joint effort.|Jessica Savitch

A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.|Thomas Bailey Aldrich

When our kids are asked by their friends about the success of the longevity of our marriage          they simply joke that Tamar and I have spent so little time together that ‘it’s really too early to tell’ if our marriage will in fact            succeed.|Patrick Pichette

My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas   where I was born. The band broke up and the marriage dissolved   and my mother         my sister and I moved to Southern California. And I didn’t see my dad a lot growing up; he was on the road a lot. I’d see him every couple years.|Jenny Lewis

I don’t know why people say you can’t have a career and a marriage. Farhan and I loved each other so I didn’t see why it wouldn’t work.|Ayesha Takia

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.|Masaharu Morimoto

While I am impulsive in many areas of my life   marriage is not one of them.|Neil Strauss

I am an old fashioned guy. I want to first stand on my two feet and then start thinking about settling down. At the moment no marriage plans.|Uday Chopra

Marriage is the hardest work you’re ever going to do.|Julie Andrews

During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney         it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children   I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn’t earning.|Ayelet Waldman

It’s hard giving advice to a friend about their marriage. You never know if you’re saying too much or too little.|Kyle Richards

I’m the person that I always was    but in terms of how I approach my living            I’m not the same person at all. At all. I’ve buried a child     I’ve ended a marriage          and the grandson that I was raising is now grown. My family has totally shifted.|Iyanla Vanzant

I’m not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while          there was always the risk of dating someone who’d owned a lunch box with my picture on it.|Shaun Cassidy

Despite the vigorous policy and legal debates surrounding same-sex marriage         there is little disagreement about this: If the United States Supreme Court holds that states must sanction same-sex marriage         then Florida’s contrary laws must fall.|Pam Bondi

Most kids just follow the cycle. My grandfather didn’t finish high school. My father didn’t and I didn’t. But you can break the cycle. You can have a successful marriage and be a good father.|Eric D. Thomas

I have a very realistic image of what marriage should be. It takes effort         but it shouldn’t be the hardest thing that you do.|Joanna Garcia

Marriage has given me the gift of compassion.|Ayesha Curry

As my marriage was slowly dissolving into silent meals and awkward nights of avoiding conversation            I started pondering an unmarried future and wondered if I’d ever be able to hack being single again.|Emily V. Gordon

The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside          the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who’ve done such a marvelous job of debasing marriage on their own all these many years.|John Ridley

If it’s not some daring          dangerous affair      it’s just not interesting        or so it seems. So     here you have two people – a famous American iconic couple – who actually like each other sexually  in marriage. Imagine.|Shelley Long

Before back in the ’50s        women didn’t have as many rights as men           so they had to be that stay-at-home wife and take care of the kids all day. But now    with marriage           it’s a partnership. It’s not like this old traditional marriage that it once was.|Kendra Wilkinson

When Brad and I got married in 2008       it got a lot of attention. And all the attention was over the fact that we were two men  but people were hardly conscious of the fact that we were entering into an interracial marriage. That’s wonderful      because it was only 50 years ago with Loving v. Virginia that interracial marriages were made legal.|George Takei

Marriage is scary to me       man.|The Weeknd

I used to party a lot before marriage.|Allu Arjun

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.|Sandra Lee

The approach of recognizing marriage between two people      without limitations  responds to a problem of eliminating all types of discrimination in society.|Miguel Diaz-Canel

I was too ashamed and afraid to confide in friends         and wanted to convince others and myself that my marriage was a success. I lost myself in my writing. Finding ways for my characters to overcome their problems and make their relationships work helped plaster over the wound caused by my inability to make things right at home.|Penny Jordan

Hoover also loved new media the way Millennials do now. He was the first person to ever appear on television. As commerce secretary he standardized the radio industry so businesses could harness its commercial value. He didn’t e-mail my great-grandmother a marriage proposal – but he did cable her one      all the way from Australia.|Margaret Hoover

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.|Regina King

There are a lot of Korean films that will show marital strife     but I’m not sure I’ve seen so many that will show it in the interest of showing a real marriage – one that ultimately succeeds.|Lee Isaac Chung

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws but a reformed society        an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.|Alfred Russel Wallace

Like every girl          I had dreams of marriage   but I got victimized in a cheating scandal. When the proposal came through the family everyone was happy. I had started talking to him with the consent of both families and after a week   all of a sudden         we got to know that I wasn’t even speaking with the person whose picture had been given to us.|Shamna Kasim

Gay marriage is the last bastion of to me… as a legal     ceremonial   sentimental and religious side            it’s one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps     like    not getting kicked out of your job because you’re gay.|Gus Van Sant

A band is like a marriage – you don’t know why it works          but when it does      everything feels right.|Nuno Bettencourt

‘Safe Harbor’ is a state of mind… it’s the place – in reality or metaphor – to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship    marriage        church           garden           beach poem prayer or song.|Luanne Rice

I don’t think he cheated on me. During the marriage      I think he was there.|Marla Maples

Early on in my life   I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father  abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23  I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life       and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.|Joyce Meyer

I felt that        in some ways           my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health           a happy upbringing a long marriage.|Jim Crace

That’s one thing I don’t think people consider nowadays. They want to believe in the importance of marriage         boil it down to just a signature on a legal document. But that’s exactly what it is. If not            why not just get married without one?|Ariel Pink

The truth is many singles deeply desire and pray for marriage.|Eric Metaxas

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.|Millicent Carey McIntosh

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.|Courteney Cox

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.|Bill Cosby

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns    then your marriage is a gift from the gods.|Bill Cosby

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?|Samuel Butler

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.|George W. Bush

Marriage was all a woman’s idea and for man’s acceptance of the pretty yoke           it becomes us to be grateful.|Phyllis McGinley

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.|Harriet Martineau

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.|Jeff Sessions

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.|Dianne Feinstein

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It’s something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.|David Vitter

I’ve always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.|Jim Talent

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.|Jim Talent

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.|Jim Bunning

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.|Mike Rounds

Like me          the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.|Mitt Romney

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.|Robert Foster Bennett

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?|Max Schmeling

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.|Michelle Shocked

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.|Seth Green

We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths – and so marriage must go the way of God.|Amy Levy

It’s not someone else’s responsibility to honor my marriage. It’s my responsibility.|David Duchovny

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.|Stockwell Day

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.|Stockwell Day

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.|Stockwell Day

It works much like a marriage        an old marriage. You’ve got to work on it.|Dick Smothers

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal     but it’s common and they don’t even notice.|Anthony Weiner

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.|Ken Mehlman

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.|Todd Akin

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.|Pete Coors

I have married thriteen couples. I’m about to do a marriage next month.|Sally Kirkland

Marriage        even the best marriages are tough.|Jayne Meadows

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.|Kathy Valentine

When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.|Michael Moriarty

Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.|Nick Lachey

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.|Sadie Frost

I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I’ve got the life people dream about: I am rich      I am famous I’ve got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely    spell-bindingly brilliant woman.|James Ellroy

I have a very intense marriage.|James Ellroy

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.|Mary Wesley

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader’s daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.|John le Carre

Since 1970    relationships can be more volatile jobs more ephemeral          geographical mobility more intensified       stability of marriage weaker.|Mary Douglas

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security         but the shackle was the price I’d pay.|Esther Williams

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.|Rachel Griffiths

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.|Michael Kinsley

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.|Corrine Brown

I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.|Darrell Royal

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.|Ezra Cornell

To us marriage is first          everything else is second.|Julie Benz

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.|Gerrit Smith

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.|Gavin MacLeod

Yes     the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.|Madeleine Stowe

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.|Rod Parsley

And my marriage was perfect when I wasn’t famous.|Damon Wayans

My father and mother were second cousins         though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.|Patrick White

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.|Margaret Sanger

I’m a heathen when it comes to marriage.|Greta Scacchi

I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest and they enjoy each other’s sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.|Patricia Arquette