Here we have the best Marriage Quotes from famous authors such as Alain de Botton, Riya Sen, Maria Callas, Margaret Cavendish, Samuel Butler. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.
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.
A man‘s friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage – but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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.
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
Marriage is scary to me, man.
Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
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.
I like marriage. The idea.
The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.
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.
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
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.
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.
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.
My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she’s a householder.
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.
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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.
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.
If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.
No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.
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.
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.
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?
I’m so in favor of gay marriage that I even married a guy.
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 just don’t find marriage a necessary step in a couple’s life.
I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.
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.
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.
Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. ‘From each according to his ability, to each according to his need’ is the family’s practice as well as its theory. Even with today’s scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.
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?
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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.
Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.
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 love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
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.
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
Marriage is anti-romantic – husband and wife are terms like ‘turkey‘ and ‘goose.’ Worse, they denote ownership.
I don’t know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.
Books and marriage go ill together.
Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
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.
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.
I like getting married, but I don’t like being married.
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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.
The great marriages are partnerships. It can’t be a great marriage without being a partnership.
I did commit adultery, if adultery is having a relationship in a marriage with another woman. I learned from that.
A lasting relationship isn’t about marriage. It’s about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work.
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.
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.
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.
A marriage doesn’t have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.
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.
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.
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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.’
We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
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.
Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
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.
Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Life is too short to exclude experiences. And that includes marriage.
I’m not for gay marriage, but I’m not for discriminating against people.
When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.
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.
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 was against gay marriage until I realized I didn’t have to get one.
I don’t think Pierre Trudeau knew how to be a husband. I couldn’t stay in that marriage.
It’s not someone else’s responsibility to honor my marriage. It’s my responsibility.
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 came from a happy family with loving parents, so my associations with marriage and children were all happy, positive things that brought me comfort as a child, which I wanted in my life.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.
I loved being in love, I loved my marriage and being married and all that stuff.
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.
Marriage is the trickiest and most basic contract that we have.
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them.
A relationship can only work if you work at it. Marriage is the most difficult thing you will do – you’ve got to really love each other to enjoy the same jokes, the same odours, the same behaviours every day.
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.
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.
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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.
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.
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar – a practice which is still continued.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.
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.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
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.
Marriage is hard. I’m not gonna lie.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
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.
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.
Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.
I’ve always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.
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.
Career and marriage don’t have to do anything with each other.
Marriage has given me the gift of compassion.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
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.
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
When I get married, it’ll be no secret.
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.
I believe in the institution of marriage, but one can’t fix a time for it. Please don’t predict it for me.
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
I do think the secret to a good marriage is separate bathrooms.
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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.
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.
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.
I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.
I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn’t always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.
I don’t believe what I do outside my profession is anybody’s’ business. And that includes a personal thing like pregnancy or even marriage.
It’s nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.
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.
I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I’d rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Marriage is give and take. You’d better give it to her or she’ll take it anyway.
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.
I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage. To use the word ‘bad’ would be perhaps the understatement of the year. It was dreadful.
What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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.
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
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.
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.
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.
Marriage has made me safer.
They say marriage will change you but it didn’t change me. Being in love changed me.
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.
People say, ‘What’s the secret to a marriage?’ There’s no secret – I think you get lucky.
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.
Same sex marriage, it’s not a big concern to me.
I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.
Marriage is the tomb of love.
Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
I’m not ready to rush into marriage.
It was a perfect marriage. She didn’t want to and he couldn’t.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.
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.
My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I’d like to go fairy tale all the way.
Marriage, 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.
It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You’ve got to work on it.
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.
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.
I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.
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.
Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what’s going on in another person’s marriage.
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.
I think infidelity is difficult, monogamy is difficult, and marriage is difficult.
A band is like a marriage – you don’t know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.
We have this rule in our marriage, there’s no such thing as 50/50. Somebody is always putting in more.
My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together, as a team.
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.
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.
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.
I used to party a lot before marriage.
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?
I always thought that marriage needs to happen at the right time, for the right reasons, and with the right person.
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.
After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn’t. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.
I am against marriage, and I don’t give a fig for society.
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.
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Our Nation must defend the sanctity of 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.
Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.
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.
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
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.
Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet – it was a marriage of convenience!
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
Marriage is a mystery, and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
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.
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 think marriage is a cultural thing – it’s my opinion that nature doesn’t tell someone to get married.
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.
I don’t believe in the institution of marriage.
The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman’s finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.
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.
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
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.
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.
A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.
Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage.
It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.
Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.
She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.
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.
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.
Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it’s also a political and economic contract of the highest order.
I’ll say this: The media wasn’t invited to my marriage, and they’re definitely not invited into the divorce.
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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 is a wonderful thing.
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.
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.
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 had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?
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.
Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.
I see marriage as a new beginning in my life.
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
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.
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
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.
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
My parents are conservative. They really weren’t in support of us dating before marriage.
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.
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.
Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.
I think marriage is beautiful, but I have mixed feelings about it.
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.
Marriage is a walk in the park compared to being a single mother or father. I’ll take that walk later.
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.
The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.
My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that’s the position I take.
I’m an activist for gay marriage equality and children’s rights. I’m the face of Share Our Strength.
In Afghan culture, you don’t date – you marry. Even talking to boys before marriage brings great shame to your family.
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.
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.
Husbands are like fires – they go out when they’re left unattended.
My father was very big on marriage.
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
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.
Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.
The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
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.
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.
The approach of recognizing marriage between two people, without limitations, responds to a problem of eliminating all types of discrimination in society.
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.
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’.
Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.
My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don’t oppose same-gender marriage.
It is so calming, marriage.
Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without.
I’ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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!
Even when I was a kid, I was never interested in any of that marriage or baby stuff.
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.
Regency romances end in marriage; zombie stories end in the zombies being vanquished. ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ delivers both.
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
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.
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.
Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.
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.
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
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.
For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.
I am not married anymore. I hate marriage… but it’s okay now.
I’ve always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.
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.
I have a lot of respect for marriage.
I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
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.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
I have a very intense marriage.
Marriage has changed things. I have my own family now.
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.
After marriage, the other man’s wife looks more beautiful.
I don’t want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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.
If I get married, I want to be very married.
In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.
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.
Marriage doesn’t guarantee anything, it doesn’t come with perfect settings.
I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.
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.
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.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it – it can be salvaged.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
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.
Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.
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.
Let me be clear. I support the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.
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.
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.
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.
There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.
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.
Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It’s a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage – for life!
We can’t destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
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.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
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.
A beautiful woman is the best investment in marriage a man can make. And anybody who advises otherwise is talking sheer nonsense.
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.
Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
The marriage didn’t work out but the separation is great.
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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.
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.
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it’s a mistake to make a habit out of it.
I think the idea of marriage is very romantic; it’s a beautiful idea, and the practice of it can be a very beautiful thing.
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.
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
I view marriage as a sacred institution. I think two men naturally are predators. Gay relationships are a commercial break, not a whole movie.
Marriage has made me a lot happier and I’m deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.
What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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 want to have the kind of marriage that will last forever. The kind of marriage that will make my kids want to get married.
To me marriage is for five or ten years.
My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it’s just a number.
College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.
Where I stand comes from my upbringing and my faith: I’m 100 percent pro-life and I believe in traditional marriage.
My sister is a lesbian and I want her to have that same feeling. A civil partnership is not the same as marriage. She’s in a serious relationship with a girl I am obsessed with. I would love her to marry her girlfriend because I love her so much.
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.
I’m the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.
Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn’t even have when you were on your own.
Marriage is a great institution.
The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.
I love marriage. I think it’s a wonderful institution and it’s the most important decision you make.
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.
I’m a heathen when it comes to marriage.
Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
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.
Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.
Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.
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.
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.
I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.
If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.
Fear paralyses you – fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.
I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don’t think of it as ‘I’m going to be with this person forever.’ Instead, I think of more like, ‘I’ll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I’ll re-evaluate.’
I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.
Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words.
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.
My feelings on homosexuality are unequivocal. I have absolutely no problem with it whatsoever. My only reservation is marriage.
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.
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.
