We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Marriage Quotes from Aishwarya R. Dhanush, H. L. Mencken, Dianne Feinstein, Akhil Akkineni, Molly Ivins. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
My parents are conservative. They really weren’t in support of us dating before marriage.
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
For the life of me, I don’t understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.
I see marriage as a new beginning in my life.
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.
The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they’re too old to do it.
It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
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.
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
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.
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
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?
I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.
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.
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.
I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
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.
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.
For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
I have a mental age of about 17. Far too young for marriage.
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.
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.
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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.
They say marriage will change you but it didn’t change me. Being in love changed me.
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.
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I’m afraid it did.
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
I’m not for gay marriage, but I’m not for discriminating against people.
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
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.
Career and marriage don’t have to do anything with each other.
Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.
It was a perfect marriage. She didn’t want to and he couldn’t.
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.
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
It’s not someone else’s responsibility to honor my marriage. It’s my responsibility.
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.
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.
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.
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.’
Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.
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.
Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.
Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.
My first marriage was ruined by feminist indoctrination.
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.
Marriage is obsolete and a trap.
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest – never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
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.
Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.
Perhaps my problem in marriage – and it is the problem of many women – was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.
The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.
The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I’d pay.
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.
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
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.’
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.
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.
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
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.
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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.
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.
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’.
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.
I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.
You can propose marriage naked or in handcuffs, but no one is going to agree to forsake all others for a man in shorts. You can’t declare war in shorts or deliver a eulogy in shorts.
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife’s spirits.
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
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.
It is so beautiful that when you watch the film, the marriage between the visuals, the music and the storytelling is seamless.
I don’t want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.
Of course I love being in love – but it is marriage that really fulfills me. But not in every case.
There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
Of all actions of a man’s life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.
I 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.
Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.
Marriage has given me the gift of compassion.
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.
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.
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
When I was young, I too enjoyed the charm of the glitzy world of movies. Life changed for me after marriage. My priority and focus was my family.
What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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.
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.
In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.
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.
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.
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.
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
To us marriage is first, everything else is second.
I married beneath me, all women do.
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.
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
The truth is that cleaning up socks and trying to get someone to really listen to you is marriage. It’s less sweep you off your feet and more sweep the kitchen four times a day. Like everything good in life, it’s 98% back-breaking work and 2% moments that make the work worthwhile.
Anything that you do in life, whether it’s work or a relationship or marriage, you get into it with a lot of positivity.
It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.
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.
I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren’t.
‘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.
After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don’t agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!
Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.
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.
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You’ve got to work on it.
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.
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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.
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.
While religious institutions should be able to pick and choose which unions they bless, civil governments should issue marriage licenses to all couples.
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.
Dancing along with family members and old friends, especially during a marriage, is a memorable experience.
I feel that whoever isn’t feeling settled in their career won’t think about their marriage.
Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
Marriage is an exercise in torture.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don’t.
Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.
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.
One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that’s not always the case.
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.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.
Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
And my marriage was perfect when I wasn’t famous.
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.
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.
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
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.
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.
Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.
Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn’t even have when you were on your own.
I’ve never thought about marriage or children.
I think it’s something that needs to be said – that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there’s nothing wrong with it.
I 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.
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.
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
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.
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.
Marriage is all about finding that special someone. One you are attracted to instantly and forever.
There is a strong view in Nigeria, as in many other cultures, that a marriage is not complete without children. I don’t agree; I’m wary of the idea that people have to have some particular functionality in order to be full members of society.
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
God invented concubinage, satan marriage.
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she’s a householder.
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.
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.
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
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.
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.
To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.
I’ll say this: The media wasn’t invited to my marriage, and they’re definitely not invited into the divorce.
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.
Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.
In marriage, there’s a lot of ignoring each other, which is hard to fake on-screen.
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.
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.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
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.
I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.
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.
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.
Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.
A troubled marriage can be as hazardous to physical health as cigarette smoking.
No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
Marriage is anti-romantic – husband and wife are terms like ‘turkey’ and ‘goose.’ Worse, they denote ownership.
Marriage has made me a lot happier and I’m deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
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.
Marriage is a blood sport. Marriage is jousting. It’s disembowelment. It’s just terrible, terrible visceral injuries. It’s not for everybody.
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.
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.
The romantic person instinctively sees marriage in terms of emotions, but what a couple actually gets up to together over a lifetime has much more in common with the workings of a small business. They must draw up work rosters, clean, chauffeur, cook, fix, throw away, mind, hire, fire, reconcile, and budget.
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
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.
I don’t think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.
May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
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.
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar – a practice which is still continued.
Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner ’til death do you part.’
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.
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don’t want to go into a marriage just because of my age – too many people make that mistake. But of course I’d like to be married one day – I dream of having children because I adore kids so, so much.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
I 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.
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.
Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet – it was a marriage of convenience!
We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.
I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I’d rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.
Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.
Husbands are like fires – they go out when they’re left unattended.
I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.
It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
So many people prefer to live in drama because it’s comfortable. It’s like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship – it’s actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.
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.
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.
The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.
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.
My father was very big on marriage.
I have become more and more afraid about marriage and parenting. I think it’s because I am getting older. Of course, there will be a lot to learn, and I also know that the experience will help in my acting.
My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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.
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.
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.
I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.
Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you’ve offered today.
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
The great marriages are partnerships. It can’t be a great marriage without being a partnership.
I’m proud of who I am. I am proud of my husband and our marriage.
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
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?
A beautiful woman is the best investment in marriage a man can make. And anybody who advises otherwise is talking sheer nonsense.
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.
My marriage to Chasten has made me a better man.
I’m so in favor of gay marriage that I even married a guy.
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest – never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
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.
That’s my prescription for a happy marriage – marry someone who doesn’t do anything similar to what you do.
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.
After about 20 years of marriage, I’m finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.
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.
My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration.
Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what’s going on in another person’s marriage.
Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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.
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.
The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
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.
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.
I did commit adultery, if adultery is having a relationship in a marriage with another woman. I learned from that.
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.
I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.
My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that’s the position I take.
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
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.
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.
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.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.
Marriage is an institution and that’s where a couple finish up.
We can’t destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.
A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.
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.
I guess because the shows were activist in their own way – the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know – people understand me very well. They also understand there’s a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.
I’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.
No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
A lasting relationship isn’t about marriage. It’s about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work.
Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Marriage ain’t easy, but it’s great most of the time.
When people say ‘marriage’ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.
When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
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.
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.
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.
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?
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Fear paralyses you – fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.
Even before marriage I used cook delicious dishes for my wife and mother-in-law on Jamai Sasthi.
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.
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
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.
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.
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.
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.
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.
Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.
We have this rule in our marriage, there’s no such thing as 50/50. Somebody is always putting in more.
I don’t see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.
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.
Never stay in a bad marriage, and don’t hang around with psycho coke fiends.
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.
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
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.
I don’t know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.
I believe in soul mates, in eternal love. Not eternal marriage.
When I was being sold into marriage, it was hard to see a future for myself.
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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.
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.
Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it – it can be salvaged.
My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don’t oppose same-gender marriage.
While I believe in marriage as an institution, I am also petrified of it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.
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.
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.
If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.
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.
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
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.
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.
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
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.
Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It’s about education, work, marriage – it’s even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.
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.
Marriage is a wonderful thing.
I think infidelity is difficult, monogamy is difficult, and marriage is difficult.
I like getting married, but I don’t like being married.
Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.
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.
Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God’s law.
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.
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!
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.
Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.
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.
Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.
I’m done with men… I’m going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don’t think I’m made for marriage.
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
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.
I loved being in love, I loved my marriage and being married and all that stuff.
A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.
Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
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.
I am not married anymore. I hate marriage… but it’s okay now.
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.
A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork.
I couldn’t think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I’ve seen it destroy people.
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.
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage. To use the word ‘bad’ would be perhaps the understatement of the year. It was dreadful.
My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married… disaster.
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
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.
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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.
The truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death.
I don’t believe in the institution of marriage.
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.
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.
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.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.
I’m a heathen when it comes to marriage.
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.
Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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.
Marriage is a great institution.
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.
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.
All marriages are happy. It’s the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.
Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
Marriage is give and take. You’d better give it to her or she’ll take it anyway.
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.
Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour – an almost neutral environmental effect coupled with the ability to travel substantial distances without disturbing anybody. The bike is the perfect marriage of technology and human energy.
There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.
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.
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.
People say, ‘What’s the secret to a marriage?’ There’s no secret – I think you get lucky.
I believe that marriage is an important part of life. So when it happens, I will definitely let the whole world know.
I refused David Letterman’s proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.
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.
Even when I was a kid, I was never interested in any of that marriage or baby stuff.
The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.
I have a very intense marriage.
Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
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.
I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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.
You have to want to be married to someone. You have to feel that reciprocated. Marriage for marriage’s sake doesn’t make any sense to me, and I found someone with whom I could put my money where my mouth is, I guess.
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.
Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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.
If I get married, I think I’d pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.
Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them.
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
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.
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.
One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
OK, no marriage is perfect.
No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.
Pink Floyd is like a marriage that’s on a permanent trial separation.
I won’t have a traditional marriage; I don’t find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself.
A sense of humor is great – it goes a long, long way in a marriage.
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.
I’ve yet to be on a campus where most women weren’t worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I’ve yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.
In 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.
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.
What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
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.
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?
Marriage is the tomb of love.
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
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.
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
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.
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
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.
I like marriage. The idea.
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.
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.
I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.
I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.
Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It’s harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next.
The key to a happy marriage is myself being absent for long periods of time. My wife Leesa and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary next year, but if my comedy gigs petered out and I was around the house more, we’d 100% be getting divorced.
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.
I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn’t have to get one.
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
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.
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.
Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.
What makes ‘The Marriage of Souls’ such a wonderful book is Collins’s intricate reconstruction of the late eighteenth-century world. Simplicity and philosophy are the hallmarks of eighteenth-century art and architecture. The classically pure lines look deceptively simple and unburdened by heavy symbolism or imagery.
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.
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.
Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay marriage, let alone gay civil unions or gay employment rights, is a middle-age issue. Young people just can’t see the problem. At worst, gays are going to win this one just by waiting until the opposition dies off.
The secret to a long marriage in the film industry? Marry someone wonderful, as I did. And always have her come along on location.
I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.
It’s not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
Be it career or marriage, spirituality helps you believe in yourself.
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up.
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.
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.
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.
Marriage is a sacrament, and the decision of what is a sacrament lies with the Church, not with Parliament.
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?
Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it’s also a political and economic contract of the highest order.
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.
Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.
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.
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.
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.
When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.
I’ve always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.
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.
Marriage is a gamble, let’s be honest.
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.
It’s tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won’t drink from my glass.
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.
The first condition of marriage between a man and a woman is that both must belong to each other totally.
Marriage is a dialogue. But in any meaningful relationship, we should be honest, whether it is about having an affair or a fling.
Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
For me, personally, marriage is a man and a woman living together.
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.
Marriage is the hardest work you’re ever going to do.
I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it’s beautiful. I’m such a romantic, and I always have been.
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.
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.
I’ve always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.
A marriage doesn’t have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.
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.
Marriage is amazing.
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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.
Marriage is absolutely not something I’m scared of, but it isn’t necessarily the be-all and end-all.
If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period… single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Marriage – a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.
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.
Marriage is something I’d recommend everyone to try, if you find the right person, of course.
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.
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.
It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis’s relationship could not sustain.
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.
The argument that gay marriage doesn’t affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.
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.
The writing partnership is a good collaboration for the same reason the marriage works, which is two people who can stand alone choosing to stand together.
A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.
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.
I always thought that marriage needs to happen at the right time, for the right reasons, and with the right person.
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.
If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.
Life is too short to exclude experiences. And that includes marriage.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
I love marriage. I think it’s a wonderful institution and it’s the most important decision you make.
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.
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.
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.
The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make – not just on your wedding day, but over and over again – and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
Marriage is a mystery, and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don’t find very often, then that is what love is all about.
It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic – another joke marriage.
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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.
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!’
