Best Marriage Quotes
People today expect too much from marriage. Getting married is really like taking on a big new job. Rosamunde Pilcher
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there. J. Paul Getty
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so. Harriet Martineau
With my divorce, and even during the end of my marriage before it even got publicly bad, how I decided to cope with things was to go on the treadmill for an hour. Khloe Kardashian
I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships. Hillary Clinton
If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity. Gordon B. Hinckley
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little. Oliver Goldsmith
Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended. Cher
Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done. Burt Reynolds
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius. Warren Beatty
Love is often the fruit of marriage. Moliere
More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed. Rainer Maria Rilke
People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie... you know, we didn't always have the greatest days. For at least half the length of our marriage we were separated, so everyday was definitely not a good day. Faith Evans
I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear. Mike Birbiglia
We need a Congress that understands the sanctity of life, the sanctity of traditional values, the sanctity of traditional marriage. Thom Tillis
I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero. Charlie Sheen
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. Jasmine Guy
I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God. Manny Pacquiao
Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let's not build a fence across the border. Gary Johnson
Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too. Sonia Johnson
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. Groucho Marx
I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time. John Naisbitt
I was born to be married. I just feel comfortable there. I love the idea of being partnered for ever. I love my girlfriend, we've been best friends since I was 18. There's not a thing we haven't been through except for marriage... We've had talks about what we would name our kids since we were in our 20s. Beth Ditto
The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman. Billy Graham
It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family. Alan Keyes
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage. Tertullian
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution? H. L. Mencken
Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility? Hillary Clinton
Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples. Neil Simon
The sweet companionship of eternal marriage is one of the greatest blessings God has granted to His children. Joseph B. Wirthlin
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. Peter De Vries
They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me. R. Kelly
Joe was being called a liar and a traitor; I'm being accused of nepotism, of being a glorified secretary. The stresses that that places on an individual and, of course, a marriage were tremendous. It was - there were some dark days. Valerie Plame
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. Sydney Smith
I feel that heterosexual marriage is the more excellent way, and it surely is approved holy by the Holy Bible, and it holds so many more possibilities: the possibilities of having children of both the mother and father, the male and the female. Robert H. Schuller
If I get married, I want to be very married. Audrey Hepburn
It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage. Doris Day
Judaism doesn't recognize gay marriage, just as we don't recognize milk and meat together as kosher, and nothing will change it... I'm not a hypocrite; I state my positions. Naftali Bennett
The Constitution of the United States has absolutely nothing to say about a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. Were the federal courts to recognize such a right, it would be completely without constitutional basis. Newt Gingrich
Marriage is hard. I'm not gonna lie. Aisha Tyler
I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues. Walter Cronkite
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. Erma Bombeck
Alzheimer's disease is never an 'accident' in a marriage. It falls under the purview of God's sovereignty. In the case of someone with Alzheimer's, this means God's unconditional and sacrificial love has an opportunity to be even more gloriously displayed in a life together. Joni Eareckson Tada
Gay marriage - it's not about two people being gay: it's about two people who love each other and who have decided to commit to each other for the exact same reasons any other couple would get married. Luke Macfarlane
I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever. Lauren Bacall
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. Jean Giraudoux
But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.' Ali Larter
Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation. Rick Wright
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. Isadora Duncan
To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation. Antonin Scalia
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. Woody Allen
Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community. Malcolm Gladwell
Marriage was defined by God a long time ago. Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve - one man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. Kirk Cameron
I'm a creative person. I love to write, I love to act, I love to perform, I love to create things with my hands, so I do all of these things that are kind of like hobbies in a way. They're things that I love, so it's not like a work-life balance; it's just a work-life marriage. Krysten Ritter
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. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't. Kirk Cameron
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. Rita Rudner
To Barack Obama, if you believe in traditional marriage, you are a homophobe. If you believe men shouldn't go into women's bathrooms and showers, you are a bigot. If you believe the unborn have a right to life, you must hate women. Robert Jeffress
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass. Douglas William Jerrold
Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex. Dennis Prager
May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise. Rumi
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. Ellen DeGeneres
Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life! Lana Turner
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband. Booth Tarkington
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long. Amy Grant
The death of marriage has been announced so often and would seem so normal, in a sense. So what's surprising is the sheer longevity and tenacity of this institution. Alain de Botton
Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians. Mitt Romney
Marriage is anti-romantic - husband and wife are terms like 'turkey' and 'goose.' Worse, they denote ownership. Thomas McGuane
Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right. Cory Booker
Marriage equality is a hustler's feeding frenzy of gold-diggers. I campaigned for marriage equality in Maryland because I believe we should have the right to it, but I personally don't want to get married. I don't want to imitate the traditions of heterosexual people. I hate weddings: they make me uneasy. John Waters
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. Soren Kierkegaard
Homosexuals can be, you know, committed to each other. And they have freedom to behave in the ways that they do, but they cannot be a family. They cannot be married. I mean, virtually every culture in the history of the world has considered marriage to be between one woman and one man. James Dobson
I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have. Theresa May
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. H. L. Mencken
It's a lot of work to make a marriage work. Just because you have been married for a while doesn't mean you can sit back and relax. You still have to be on your toes. A marriage needs constant attention. Malaika Arora Khan
We make no greater voluntary choice in this life than the selection of a marriage partner. This decision can bring eternal happiness and joy. To find sublime fulfillment in marriage, both partners need to be fully committed to the marriage. James E. Faust
Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples? Ted Olson
Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work. Gordon B. Hinckley
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults. Richard Armour
My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce. Sophie Ellis-Bextor
In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and in part because of trepidation about marriage, which was then a very confining institution, there was a big population of women - mostly middle-class white women on the East Coast - who didn't marry. Rebecca Traister
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage. Maria Callas
I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of cynical about romance and marriage but ultimately embraced it. Because I feel like comedy is always cynical, inherently, because it's contrarian. Mike Birbiglia
I still believe in love. I believe in marriage. Usher
Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men. Marilyn Monroe
After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him. Helen Rowland
It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out. Joanna Lumley
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague. Robert Burton
I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president. Indra Nooyi
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. Beverley Nichols
My advice to Robin is listen to your heart, do what you feel. Follow your heart in love and marriage as you would in careers, and you'll be fine. Robin has a great heart. He's a fabulous father. Alan Thicke
Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people. Katherine Heigl
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. William Congreve
The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. Nikola Tesla
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers. Alan King
Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty. Jerry Weller
My father was very big on marriage. Sidney Poitier
I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much. Bob Newhart
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. Benjamin Franklin
Liberty University will not lend its name or financial support to undermine marriage or to promote abortion. Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Same sex marriage, it's not a big concern to me. Tomi Lahren
It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter. Deborah Moggach
I made an awful mess of my first marriage. It was hard to live with me being me. I was so abnormal. I mean, most writers struggle. I hadn't struggled. I couldn't suddenly go down to the PEN Club and behave like a normal human being, because most of those guys were struggling to make a couple of thousand pounds a year. John le Carre
I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. Nancy Reagan
Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave. Elizabeth Gilbert
The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods. Bill Cosby
Most kids just follow the cycle. My grandfather didn't finish high school. My father didn't, and I didn't. But you can break the cycle. You can have a successful marriage and be a good father. Eric D. Thomas
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. Martin Seligman
I don't care how handsome or fabulous or funny the groom is, or how sweet and accommodating the bride, or vice versa. Marriage is hard. Jenna McCarthy
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers. Eddie Cantor
A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh. Tori Amos
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am a big believer in marriage. Kate Winslet
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. Helen Rowland
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. Homer
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping. Mignon McLaughlin
Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. George W. Bush
Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today. Jared Polis
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation. Abraham Maslow
I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom. Michael Bergin
First thing I said to him was, 'LeBron, you know this is true. We had five good years and one bad night'. Like a marriage that's good, and then one bad thing happens, and you never talk to each other again. Dan Gilbert
I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off. Gloria Steinem
People should be allowed to marry, and gay marriage should be out there. If a man or a woman has a good partner and they love each other with their heart and soul, let them marry. I am very much for gay marriage. Pierce Brosnan
Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all. Jason Mraz
I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.' Amanda Bynes
Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day. Barbara De Angelis
In many ways, a song-writing partnership is like a marriage. Apart from just liking each other, a lyricist and a composer should be able to spend long periods of time together - around the clock if need be - without getting on each other's nerves. Their goals, outlooks, and basic philosophies should be similar. Richard Rodgers
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. William Penn
In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation. Pope Francis
I love Matthew Broderick. Call me crazy, but I love him. We can only be in the marriage we are. We're very devoted to our family and our lives. I love our life. I love that he's the father of my children, and it's because of him that there's this whole other world that I love. Sarah Jessica Parker
Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family. John Boehner
All of us, wherever we happen to stand on the marriage equality issue, can agree that all our children deserve the opportunity to live in a loving, caring, committed, and stable home, protected equally under the law. Martin O'Malley
Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day. Mickey Rooney
I love producing other people's work, but presenting is a very serious business. It's a marriage. Guillermo del Toro
The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership. Helen Mirren
I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. Robert Louis Stevenson
I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage. Bob Newhart
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce. P. J. O'Rourke
When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship. Lady Gaga
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. Brendan Behan
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police. Robert Louis Stevenson
How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving. Erica Jong
Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man. Jeff Bridges
A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most. Nancy Pelosi
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. Myles Munroe
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash. Joyce Brothers
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. Rita Rudner
In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded of their failures and limited by the energies of another person. It is rife with judgment and blame. Marianne Williamson
The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions. Katy Perry
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. Pearl S. Buck
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life. Maria Monk
Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house. Lewis Grizzard
Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it is not an isolated one. His administration has been making pro-gay noises for some time; his demographic in the upcoming election is young and educated, precisely the group that favours equality for the LGBT community. Edmund White
It is disgusting that 'Life & Style' and 'InTouch' magazines continue to print these false stories about my life: the status of my marriage, false reports about a miscarriage, the horrible lie that my dad is not my biological father, jealousy over my sisters' lives, etc. Khloe Kardashian
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up. Ogden Nash
Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit. Seamus Heaney
Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He's called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He's in favor of open borders. James Dobson
Marriage is an exercise in torture. Frances Conroy
You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse. Omar Khayyam
Gay marriage is going to happen. It must. Lady Gaga
In a month's time, I shall be able to give your Majesty news of the Comtesse de Provence, for the marriage is fixed for May 14th; they had prepared many fetes for this marriage, but now they are economising in them for want of money. Marie Antoinette
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. Gail Collins
In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged. J. Robert Oppenheimer
I believe that all men and women are created equal, but it took our country until 1920 to acknowledge this for women. And then it took until 1964, the year before I was born, to outlaw discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. And same-sex marriage became the law of the land in 2015. Brad Feld
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about. Katharine Hepburn
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. Jane Austen
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. Martin Luther
If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account. Al Goldstein
Vice President Biden's surprising declaration of unqualified support for gay marriage seems to have forced President Obama into a public endorsement of a controversial social issue. It is difficult not to suspect that Biden's pronouncement aimed to give the president some political cover. Robert Dallek
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! William Hazlitt
Liberty University is pro-life and believes that marriage between one man and one woman provides the best environment for children. Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning. Jane Harrison
Righteous marriage is a commandment and an essential step in the process of creating a loving family relationship that can be perpetuated beyond the grave. David A. Bednar
Spanglish is the encounter: perhaps the word is marriage or divorce of English and Spanish, but also of Anglo and Hispanic civilizations - not only in the United States but in the entire continent and, perhaps, also in Spain. Ilan Stavans
There are many things that keep me from getting married. But there will be a time when marriage makes sense to me. Adam Levine
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of. Mae West
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us. George Bernard Shaw
I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation. Henry Rollins
Marriage is not easy. You have to decide to work. That's what it really comes down to: two people deciding to stay together or not. Darius Rucker
I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that. Jack Nicholson
If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage. Bob Newhart
I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be. Anna Kendrick
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. Joey Adams
Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. Mitt Romney
We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together. Rodney Dangerfield
I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget. Bianca Jagger
Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior. Gary Bauer
Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever. Kevin Gates
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. John Updike
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. Ben Shapiro
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement. J. Paul Getty
Marriage is scary to me, man. The Weeknd
Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career. Sam Ewing
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. Katharine Hepburn
I believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman. Mitch McConnell
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth. Edwin Louis Cole
Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well. Anita Shreve
The United States Constitution does not one time even mention marriage. It neither requires Congress or the states to adopt same-sex marriage laws nor does it forbid them from maintaining traditional marriage laws. Trent Franks
Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it. Marianne Williamson
Proponents of same-sex marriage regularly label opponents 'radical' and 'extremist.' However, given that no society in thousands of years has allowed same-sex marriage, it is, by definition, the proponents of same-sex marriage whose position is radical and extreme. Dennis Prager
Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die. Johnny Carson
When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned. Marie Osmond
Every single person suffers; every marriage has some major battles. Life pulls you in different directions. But if you try, and you're lucky, you can find your way back to each other. Taya Kyle
People might be surprised because I settled for an arranged marriage, but that's what's chosen for us. Karan Patel
I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone. Faith Hill
If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist. James Dobson
In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, 'Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn't understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn't fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn't want it to get any worse. You're the mother of my kids - I don't want to hate you.' Kevin Hart
Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch. Dennis Miller
I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children. Salma Hayek
I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way. Elizabeth Edwards
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'. Herbert Spencer
If someone wants to marry you outside the temple, whom will you strive to please - God or a mortal? If you insist on a temple marriage, you will be pleasing the Lord and blessing the other party. Ezra Taft Benson
Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union. Coretta Scott King
Marriage was never my goal, because I've never been very traditional. Chrissy Teigen
I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman. George W. Bush
When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person. Allison Pearson
TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children. Lucille Ball
I think it's important for people to understand that this started with President Bill Clinton. He, as president, thought it was such a big priority, he passed the defense of marriage - defense of traditional non-gay marriage - that we have it as a federal law. Kellyanne Conway
In articulating all my feelings about marriage equality, I almost don't know where to begin. And perhaps that's part of the problem. Why do we have to explain ourselves when it comes to issues of fairness and equality? Why is common sense not enough? Scott Fujita
The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage. Al Goldstein
The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had legalized gay marriage, despite intense opposition from the religious right. Edmund White
I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you. Faith Evans
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. Hesiod
I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all. Lauren Bacall
I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman. Rand Paul
Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex? Malcolm Turnbull
My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish. Alec Baldwin
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. George Carey
I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage. Stephen Harper
Marriage changes everything. Marilyn Manson
Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage. Stockwell Day
When I'm weak, you can be strong; when I'm strong, you can be weak. That's what I believe marriage is. Gisele Bundchen
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. Franz Schubert
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both. Guy de Maupassant
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. George Bernard Shaw
Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends. Joe Rogan
In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage. Arlie Russell Hochschild
A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance. Tullian Tchividjian
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. Zsa Zsa Gabor
From the new hate crimes law to the repeal of DOMA and 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' to the emerging popular support for marriage equality, we are making progress at breakneck speed. As someone who has dedicated most of my career to civil rights law, I am deeply moved by this sea change and proud to have done my part. Thomas E. Perez
The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight. Paul Bloom
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient. Voltaire
Marriage has been a way of attempting to ensure the replication of power and wealth from one generation of another, passing it down from men to men. Rebecca Traister
I believe that the essence of marriage is choosing someone who loves you for who you are, embraces everything about you, and building a life with that person. Whether that life is with children or without children - it's honestly immaterial to building a life with someone that you love fully. Aisha Tyler
I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others. Princess Margaret
Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution. Jeff Sessions
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. Ian McShane
My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage. Salma Hayek
It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.' Garrett Hedlund
I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them. Marc Webb
Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit. Brian Littrell
Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it. Gene Simmons
I never looked at my parents' marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, 'I gotta get me some of that!' Mike Birbiglia
The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave. Rick Santorum
Marriage is a walk in the park compared to being a single mother or father. I'll take that walk later. Sophie B. Hawkins
I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this. Jim Carrey
I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination. Dennis Rodman
While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them. Neil Strauss
Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird. Joan Fontaine
Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be. Elizabeth Gilbert
The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans. Elliott Abrams
I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law. Paul Martin
To me marriage is for five or ten years. Cher
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. George Eliot
I support anyone who supports what's in the Republican platform, which includes support for traditional marriage. Scott Garrett
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred. William O. Douglas
There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage. Ted Cruz
In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow. Iyanla Vanzant
It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix. David Byrne
There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. Norman Mailer
Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it. Hillary Clinton
I'm in love with love and totally believe in marriage, but that's not even on my radar right now. I am not putting energy into dating. Selena Gomez
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. Henry Adams
TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives; it's like a marriage. Joss Whedon
You will often be in despair. You will sometimes think it's the worst decision in your life. That's fine. That's not a sign your marriage has gone wrong. It's a sign that it's normal; it's on track. And many of the hopes that took you into the marriage will have to die in order for the marriage to continue. Alain de Botton
Marriage is the death of hope. Woody Allen
With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits. Eleanor Holmes Norton
Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words. Adam Goldberg
Everyone's marriage is different. But everyone's marriage is a compromise. Ariel Levy
'Marriage' was not that big a deal, to be honest! I mean, it makes life easier for technical reasons: insurance, next-of-kin stuff, joint tax filing, etc. The real shocker was falling in love with the man I'm married to. I was 32 when we met, and I had really never been in a functional relationship before, had never been deeply in love. Rebecca Traister
I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman. Bill Frist
If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada. Mary Karr
There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have. P. J. O'Rourke
I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked. Gerard Way
If you have a difficult marriage, it's the hard times that make it better. If you have a relationship, it's the hard times that actually make it better, and that goes for life as well. Kerry Stokes
I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them. James Dobson
I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling. Hugh Jackman
You won't believe it, but for the first two years of our marriage I lived off my wife. Like every self-respecting man, I hated it. Ram Kapoor
Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It's all about who you pick; in that first moment, did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who's more interested in being married than in getting married. Rob Lowe
Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels like the soul of our nation has been taken from us. David Jeremiah
Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice. Anthony Weiner
Marriage isn't about a collection of scenes over ten years of two people telling each other that they love each other. It's about commitment. Jeff Nichols
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows. Jeremy Taylor
Marriage has just never interested me. Jacqueline Bisset
Divorce is not the end of the world. It's worse to stay in an unhealthy marriage. That's a worse example for the children. Jerry Hall
Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously. Bono
Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit. Margaret Cavendish
I've had two terrific relationships, but both ended in marriage. Jane Seymour
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation. Abraham Verghese
Marriage is a mystery, and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish. Aisha Tyler
Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage. Drew Barrymore
Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed. Isabel Allende
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse. Benjamin Spock
I think it's important to remember that you go into something like marriage knowing that you don't know very much about it at all. But I do look at the marriage of my mother and stepdad, and what makes it work for them is that it's a team effort. Justin Timberlake
Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view? William Shatner
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. Mel Gibson
I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married. Alec Baldwin
If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state? Tony Campolo
I may get married later or may never get married. But I want babies, so I'll have to get married. I want fat, cute babies. Every girl has to think about it at some point. For me, marriage is about family, and that's why I find it necessary. Till then, it's normal to have a partner and do your own thing. Alia Bhatt
The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage. Gene Simmons
Even prior to marriage and motherhood, it's always been about prioritising and focusing on what you can commit to. That's been my approach to every aspect of my life, be it my relationships or my professional commitments. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it. Brigitte Nielsen
I have a very intense marriage. James Ellroy
She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face. Henny Youngman
I love marriage. Jeff Bridges
Marriage isn't a carnival ride. Aisha Tyler
As you are not yet married, and as marriage is the fundamental state of life as well as the unity of the commonwealth, make up your mind whether you are called to this state. If you make up your mind to marry, do not marry merely a good wife: marry a good mother to your children. Vincent McNabb
When you don't have access to a subject, and all you have is ex-members and critics, there is this gravitational pull toward telling a certain version of events. Scientology would say this, and they have a point, that it's like doing a portrait of a marriage in which you're only hearing from the ex-wife and not the ex-husband. Louis Theroux
It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous. Ian Mckellen
My marriage to Marjorie is the most rewarding thing that ever happened to me. She gave me a life and a relationship that I didn't know existed. Steve Harvey
It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't. Spike Milligan
I've got two young sons who, when I ask them and their friends how they feel about gay marriage, kinda give me one of those looks like, 'Gosh, Mom, why are you even asking that question?' Lisa Murkowski
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. Samuel Johnson
I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution. Barack Obama
My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate. Carnie Wilson
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. W. H. Auden
I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage. Keith Richards
When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore. Louis C. K.
I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman. Arnold Schwarzenegger
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. Gloria Steinem
I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in. Kajol
When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails; I let it go off the rails. Stuart Rose
My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other. Marina Abramovic
My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one. Olivia Williams
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. Gloria Steinem
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance. Michel de Montaigne
A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other. Jessica Simpson
I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called. Ellen DeGeneres
Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. Rose George
Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity. Gary Bauer
I'm the person that I always was, but in terms of how I approach my living, I'm not the same person at all. At all. I've buried a child, I've ended a marriage, and the grandson that I was raising is now grown. My family has totally shifted. Iyanla Vanzant
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up. Les Dawson
'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song. Luanne Rice
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them. Barack Obama
For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure. Mariella Frostrup
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. Denis Diderot
Before, back in the '50s, women didn't have as many rights as men, so they had to be that stay-at-home wife and take care of the kids all day. But now, with marriage, it's a partnership. It's not like this old traditional marriage that it once was. Kendra Wilkinson
One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make. Max Lucado
I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes. Hugh Hefner
Nothing scares me about marriage. Divyanka Tripathi
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. Pearl S. Buck
I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me. Elizabeth Edwards
Marriage helps young couples to raise themselves towards God. The bond of marriage unites two souls so firmly that though they are physically two separate entities, their souls are merged into one harmonious whole. Dada Vaswani
Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again. Eddie Murphy
Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned. John Ridley
Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage. Henry Rollins
I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits. Elizabeth Gilbert
While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything! Lake Bell
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right. Barack Obama
I have a lady, she's a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We're on the same page. Whenever that day happens when we're not on the same page we'll move forward with it. We're interested in having our lives be our lives right now and not a third person's vis-a-vis marriage and whatever that means. Jon Hamm
I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed. Alain de Botton
Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school. Nate Berkus
The best dating advice I can give is... are you going in it for marriage, or are you going in it for just a date? You've got to be open about it right away, because the other person could be in it for marriage, but you're not. Kendra Wilkinson
Does God feel like that same-sex marriage could happen? I don't think anybody who has a connection to God and God's understanding and depth of compassion who's gonna say 'no.' Greg Boyle
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female. Anna Quindlen
I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations. Candice Olson
It's important to show each other your marriage is a priority. Zoe Foster Blake
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. Robert Louis Stevenson
Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life. Kajol
Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray
Those first few years of marriage, before the war interrupted all our lives, Phil and I had a very happy time. I grew up considerably, mostly thanks to him. Katharine Graham
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. Andre Maurois
I say to my children, the reason that marriage - and having children - is so important is that it stops you thinking about yourself. The way to happiness is to give yourself to others and to think of others before you think of yourself. Terry Wogan
I'm totally against straight marriage - even though I'm married. I don't think heterosexual marriage is any of the government's business. Penn Jillette
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up. Barbara Bush
My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way. NeNe Leakes
Marriage is a great institution. Elizabeth Taylor
I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great. Mary J. Blige
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. Samuel Richardson
The country is increasingly culturally conservative, with a small C. Every time marriage is on the ballot, it passes. People are increasingly pro-life. They don't like taxes. Kellyanne Conway
Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God's great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life! Russell M. Nelson
Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie. Denise Richards
At the end of the day, I know that I would rather be alone and occasionally lonely and unhappy than in a miserable marriage and lonely and unhappy all the time. I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it. Alana Stewart
Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right? Katherine Heigl
There is a difference between civil partnerships and marriage. That difference does not mean one is better than another. John Sentamu
For me, personally, marriage is a man and a woman living together. Angela Merkel
A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion. Lawrence M. Krauss
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. Ambrose Bierce
In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country. Colin Powell
There is great mystery in a church. For me, there is a great privilege to be confronted with the design of a church because it shelters the most powerful themes of humanity: birth, marriage, death. Mario Botta
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. Jane Austen
You can be in love and raise a family wonderfully by not being married, but actually, marriage does give us a strength, because it's quite hard to get out of, and so it makes us fight more to keep it together. If divorce becomes dead easy - which it sort of has - then we don't have that backup. Because, for everybody, relationships are hard. Jeremy Irons
We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration. Alain de Botton
When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage - in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments. Joseph B. Wirthlin
Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge. Bill Cosby
I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax? Jackie Kennedy
I definitely do not support a constitutional amendment that has to do with prohibiting gay marriage. Dina Titus
For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do. Al Goldstein
In terms of my involvement in 'don't ask, don't tell' and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools - these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans. Lady Gaga
I've never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple - gay or straight - should be able to get married. Al Franken
Marriage is a unique cultural relationship that has a long-standing tradition and societal meaning, which should not be redefined by the courts. James Lankford
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. Thornton Wilder
When it comes to discrimination, Americans pride ourselves on how far we've come. Racial segregation is history. Explicit sex discrimination is banned. Same-sex marriage is the law of the land. But amidst all the progress, the male-female wage gap persists, and it's big. Cass Sunstein
If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment. Sonia Sotomayor
I am not married anymore. I hate marriage... but it's okay now. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
I couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people. Simon Cowell
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. Hesiod
Compassion, not passion, keeps a marriage together. Betty Wright
When Stephen Harper was elected as the new Conservative Prime Minister - and he talked about repealing gay marriage and putting it to a vote in the House of Commons - Elton and I talked about getting married in Canada to make a statement, for ideological and political reasons. David Furnish
I support same-sex marriage. Anthony Foxx
You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage. Jeremy Sisto
My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father. Usher
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. Coretta Scott King
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest. H. L. Mencken
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. David Furnish
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. Jean Cocteau
Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it. Helen Rowland
Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over. Diane von Furstenberg
My characters always start well in movies. Almost every movie I've done starts with a happy marriage, it's all beautiful, wealthy, whatever... and then of course my husband leaves me, and everything falls apart. Carole Bouquet
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. Michel de Montaigne
If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow. Anna Held
As my friend said to me, when you have children, typically in a second marriage, when you're older and you get married again to a woman who would have children, you must always remember that you make sure the children attend a college where the commencement ceremonies are held in a facility with a wheelchair accessible ramp. Alec Baldwin
I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde. Hugh Hefner
Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch. Yoko Ono
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking. Marvin Gaye
On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on. Madonna Ciccone
I feel people naturally have a brightness. When that is extinguished by circumstances - be it a wrong marriage or a situation that you cannot leave psychologically - there's something about that dying spark that I'm drawn to playing. Vanessa Kirby
Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally. L. Ron Hubbard
To me, marriage is really important and what we build families on. That's why gay marriage is really important. Margaret Cho
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. Warren Farrell
I don't think it's more difficult for actors to have a good marriage than anyone. I think, in the end, a really important component of any relationship is honesty, and it also comes down to luck. Cate Blanchett
I think there was a time in my life, probably in college, that I wished every guy was gay because it meant more women for me! I don't know what everyone's problem with it is. I wish everyone was gay! That's always the way I thought about it. I have no issue with it. If I have to suffer through marriage, why shouldn't they? Donald Trump, Jr.
I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was never going to happen to me again. I made a brave step to walk out in a society when you didn't walk out of an abusive marriage. It was mental and physical abuse. Joyce Banda
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed. Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that's the position I take. Nick Jonas
You can't wake up one day and say 'I'm for gay marriage,' and wake up the next day and say 'I'm against it.' Wake up one day and say, 'I'm pro-choice,' and the next day wake up and say, 'I'm pro-life.' There's no credibility there. Roger Stone
Marriage does figure in my life, as I do want to have children. But I could also consider having children without getting married. The primary thing is having a good father, a partner who could be there with me through that journey. Jacqueline Fernandez
Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage. Zig Ziglar
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it. Lyndon B. Johnson
If the present Mrs. Wogan has a fault - and I must tread carefully here - if she has a fault, this gem in the diadem of womanhood is a hoarder. She never throws anything out. Which may explain the longevity of our marriage. Terry Wogan
Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want, abolish laws against homosexual conduct. That's how the change in a society occurs. Society doesn't change through a Constitution. Antonin Scalia
Everyone knows marriage is tough. Lindsey Vonn
The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding. Margaret Sanger
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. Oscar Wilde
Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that. Nick Cave
Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce. Roseanne Barr
What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? Angela Carter
Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true. Marianne Williamson
I enjoy being single, but I loved being married. Stephanie Mills
Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers. Richard Pryor
During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage. Conan O'Brien
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. Joseph Campbell
Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage. John le Carre
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. Ellen Key
There are going to be peaks and valleys in everything - in your marriage, in your job, in your life. So just enjoy the peaks and ride out the valleys. Just try not to do anything too rash. Ricky Schroder
The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it. Ann Bancroft
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. George Eliot
I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make. Isla Fisher
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. W. Somerset Maugham
In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I think people should be authentic and who they are. If that calls people to same-sex attraction and same-sex marriage, then they should be true to who they are, and I think that the world could benefit by more love. Chris Gibson
After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love. Monica Bellucci
Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare. Gary Johnson
There are lots of different ideas, lots of different opinions about the First Amendment Defense Act and what it should be. There were a lot of different forms of it while I was on the Hill. But I would say that I agree that the decision on gay marriage does mean that we need to take some steps to defend religious liberty. Evan McMullin
I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be. Joel Osteen
In Hungary, if homosexuals would like to live together, they can do so under the civil code. But what we call marriage is exclusively for one man and one woman. We are a Christian country. That's a historical fact. Viktor Orban
I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying. Barack Obama
With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught me patience. They've also taught me that I don't need to feel guilty about being happy. My emotional seasons are less extreme. Pete Wentz
The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, America could turn permanently blue. Ben Shapiro
When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage. Queen Victoria
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. Zsa Zsa Gabor
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. Charles Caleb Colton
We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time. Pope Francis
My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don't have one. Robert Kiyosaki
Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
You're not just going out there, maybe sacrificing your own life. There's also sacrifices still going on at home. You can serve in the military and have a good marriage, but you just need to be aware of it so you can take those steps to take care of it. Chris Kyle
The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework? Henry Louis Gates
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. Mae West
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner. Red Skelton
I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more. Marc Chagall
I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage. June Carter Cash
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. Robert Louis Stevenson
I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible. David Boreanaz
I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage. William Shatner
My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War. Mikhail Baryshnikov
I always like to say that our brand or our philosophy has always been kind of this marriage between the 'food as indulgence,' and it's also been about 'food as health,' that food is vitality. John Mackey
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. Friedrich Nietzsche
Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman. Randy Neugebauer
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. Ann Landers
We got Defense of Marriage Act as a federal law from President Bill Clinton. And it was passed with bipartisan support. Kellyanne Conway
The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage. Ezra Taft Benson
I think Liberty students ought to date a lot without commitment in mind. If you're thinking commitment - and you probably shouldn't until you're a senior - you don't want to start your marriage off under the constraints of poverty and schooling. Jerry Falwell
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. H. L. Mencken
I think that's what makes a successful marriage: a mindful sense of self and the ability to make clear choices to stay together or choices not to. Goldie Hawn
Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood. Ezra Taft Benson
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. Oscar Wilde
I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - my male friends in particular. And I started wondering if my wife, who was certainly my best friend, supplanted those relationships. Matthew Weiner
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. Billy Connolly
Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree. Richard Harris
I had been living in Ohio in my own house with my own life when my marriage abruptly came to an end. I had nowhere to go with my two sons, very little money, and not much to do in Ohio except be someone's ex-wife. My parents instantly and very generously invited my family to move back home to New York, where I could begin again. Isabel Gillies
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle. Jerry Falwell
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. Gloria Steinem
Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue. Malcolm Turnbull
I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers. Charlie Sheen
I think marriage works for some people, but I just don't think it could work for me. I don't see it. Romeo Santos
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. Imran Khan
Marriage is wonderful. Jennifer Aniston
I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out. Reese Witherspoon
My husband was adopted, and we had difficulty having both of my children, so we know the gift that life is. We do believe marriage is between a man and a woman. It's how you stand on that kind of thing or how you vote that really makes a difference. Nikki Haley
Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. Edmond About
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome. Jerry Seinfeld
Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other's strengths. Sheri L. Dew
It is a mistake for women to think that life begins only with marriage. A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do. James E. Faust
Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person. Sophia Bush
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. Jeremy Corbyn
I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage. Rob Delaney
I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight. Mark Ruffalo
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. Stephen Leacock
Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine; the groom, in this scenario, is nothing but a prop. Naomi Wolf
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know. Bette Davis
What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married. Alain de Botton
The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life. Jeffrey Kluger
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. Socrates
In my long life I have found peace, joy, and happiness beyond my fondest hopes and dreams. One of the supreme benedictions of my life has been my marriage to an elect daughter of God. I love her with all my heart and soul. James E. Faust
Marriage is marriage. Everybody has problems. Mel Gibson
Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion. Roger Wicker
Men are literally lying in bed with their wives when the marriage is essentially over, thinking, 'I've got to get the hell out of here', and have a fantasy woman in mind. Then you get divorced, meet a woman, marry her, and by the time all that goes by, you've aged a few years and are ready to go back to your ex-wife. Alec Baldwin
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. Jackie Kennedy
Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong? Jeffrey Kluger
Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief. Malcolm Turnbull
Gay rights are not primarily marriage rights, and for the millions who live in unaccepting places with no resources, dignity remains elusive. I am lucky to have forged meaning and built identity, but that's still a rare privilege. And gay people deserve more, collectively, than the crumbs of justice. Andrew Solomon
I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26. Jimmy Carr
Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all. Joyce Brothers
Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this. Henry Rollins
I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them. Rand Paul
Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway. Joey Adams
I swear Kim Kardashian's first marriage lasted longer than some of my iPhone chargers. Lilly Singh
She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over. David Gest
There are many deaf people who couldn't imagine living in a marriage without someone who doesn't speak their language. For me, I believe that hearing or deaf is fine as long as both parties are willing to communicate in each other's language. But if there's no communication, then the marriage, I believe, will be difficult if not doomed. Marlee Matlin
The storm and stress period of women and the new social and psychological formations thereby entailed must indeed extend far into the twentieth century. This period of conflict will cease only when woman within and out of marriage shall have received legal equality with man. Ellen Key
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him. Marilyn Monroe
Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions. Henry Rollins
Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California. Rick Perry
By the time I had reached the age of 16, in the 10th grade, my parents, after 22 years of marriage, one day decided to get a divorce. Frank Abagnale
I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the symptoms worse and everyone in the house paid the price. Mika Brzezinski
Marriage has made me safer. Kate Winslet
I made a very poor decision in my first marriage. I know God's forgiven me. Scott DesJarlais
Republicans need to stay strong on the fact that marriage is between a man and a woman. Those are values that are true to the party and true to who we are. They could focus on jobs and the economy, but we all know that keeping the family structure intact is very important in our country. Nikki Haley
A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life. Jim Samuels
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. Henny Youngman
She has been more than a mother than me - not much, but definitely more... She's been an unsolicited stylist, interior decorator and marriage counselor... Admittedly, I found it difficult to share my mother with her adoring fans, who treated her like she was part of their family. Carrie Fisher
In retrospect, I'm grateful for the break-up of my marriage because it forced me to deal with all the buried issues I probably wouldn't have otherwise faced. I'm a better, kinder, happier person today because of the spiritual and emotional growth I've experienced. Alana Stewart
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. Peter De Vries
But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together. Michael J. Fox
Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is. Annie Lennox
Supporting the definition of marriage as one man and one woman is not anti-gay: it is pro-traditional marriage. And if support for traditional marriage is bigotry, then Barack Obama was a bigot until just before the 2012 election. Marco Rubio
Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed. Laura Wasser
I definitely have a happy marriage and family life. Viola Davis
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. Robert Anderson
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I've heard that we come on earth in pairs, get separated only to meet once again through marriage. So whoever is there on this earth for me will eventually get paired with me. Till then, I'll enjoy my singlehood. Rani Mukerji
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen
Marriage is like a formality for me. David Copperfield
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. Alana Stewart
Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. Susan B. Anthony
Books and marriage go ill together. Moliere
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. Halle Berry
When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam. Ezra Taft Benson
Vivek is a very supportive man. If I am in the kitchen doing something, he comes and helps. I don't think marriage will change anything for us. Our careers will not be affected after marriage. He believes in gender equality and is a man of today's time. Divyanka Tripathi
It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it. Myles Munroe
There's so much fakeness in the fashion world, but Mum and Dad have always given us a good work ethic and were quite worried at first about whether I could make a living from acting. They've been together for 29 years and share the same values. I really do want to have that kind of marriage myself. Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? Groucho Marx
For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities. Dianne Feinstein
Marriage is the tomb of love. Giacomo Casanova
Obama is for same-sex marriage. If the president is saying that, then who am I to go the other way? Curtis Jackson
The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds. Gene Robinson
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. H. L. Mencken
I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman. Mitt Romney
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. Euripides
To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone. Alain de Botton
The institution of marriage works better when there's a spiritual connection. If you're marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective. A. R. Rahman
I have always maintained a strong opposition to marriage because I would have to be in serious denial to pretend I wasn't born with a personality for divorce. Whatever the opposite of amicable is, that's how my breakups tend to play out. Chelsea Handler
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it. Ben Carson
Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws. Germaine Greer
One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist. Rand Paul
Some of the best advice I got from a close friend is marriage is always looked at from the world as 50/50 as to working together to make that 100 percent. Brian Littrell
Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me you're playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us? Henry Rollins
I'm doing 'Rock of Ages' one day, making out with Russell Brand. Soon after that, I'm advocating with Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Cynthia Nixon for marriage equality. Alec Baldwin
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. Colin Powell
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. Henny Youngman
The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year. Hedy Lamarr
But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating. Linda McCartney
Even after marriage, our home is important for us. Mahesh Babu
Rooney was like marrying a high school sweetheart. And then you're like, 'I think we need some time to see other people,' and those other people are new musicians. Starsystem is like a new marriage with new musicians. Robert Coppola Schwartzman
Romantic love came under attack, first from the Freudians and then from the neuroscientists, who said that being in love was a chemical reaction in the brain. Marriage is no longer seen as a lifetime commitment. Jane Ridley
Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already. Linda Fiorentino
I am very proud to have kept my commitment to introduce the married couples' tax allowance. I think it will prove very popular. I think it's absolutely right that we recognise marriage in the tax system properly, and I would like to see that expanded. David Cameron
Marriage can be expensive, and if I lose millions then it'll be the best millions I've spent. Seth Rogen
Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have. Gordon B. Hinckley
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.' Archie Panjabi
Just going through a marriage and a divorce - which I essentially did by 21 - will give you an insane amount of perspective on life. Solange Knowles
My wife - I married my onscreen girlfriend from 'Growing Pains', Mike Seaver's girlfriend, and we've been married for 17 years - so marriage is very important to us. Kirk Cameron
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three. Washington Irving
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats. Marge Piercy
To see two couples that are battling to make it work just shows that love is in a marriage, but there are also trials and things that you have to make it through and showing women and men how to keep it spicy. Kyla Pratt
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. Bruce Forsyth
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. Michel de Montaigne
Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission. Meir Soloveichik
I have trouble with long-term things. I tend to get obsessed with stuff and then move on. Roles, songs, video games. That's why I was afraid of marriage. Because it was like a lifelong game of 'Madden.' Paul Rudd
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. Abraham Lincoln
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. P. J. O'Rourke
I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war. J. D. Vance
To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it? Karl Pilkington
By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fulness of glory. Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities, males and females each bring to a marriage relationship unique perspectives and experiences. David A. Bednar
It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself. Sylvester Stallone
Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage. Natasha Trethewey
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. Erma Bombeck
A good husband makes a good wife. John Florio
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. Josh Billings
A song like 'Once in a Lifetime' is inspired by my marriage - it's a good, life-changing happening in my life. I think when you find your once-in-a-lifetime love, that's what everybody's looking for. Keith Urban
When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education. Andie MacDowell
The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone. Theodore Zeldin
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. James Dobson
I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage. Jeff Bridges
I don't know if I believe in marriage - I believe in love. Romeo Santos
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued. Robert Graves
I married beneath me, all women do. Nancy Astor
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. Thomas Moore
I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right. Richard Pryor
A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost. John Burroughs
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did. Bette Davis
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. John Lyly
Marriage is an ongoing thing, man. You continue to work at it. But it's joyful. And joyous. I don't care if people are living without a marriage certificate. It's just about people, in some way, saying to each other, 'I commit to you. I will help you in this life.' James McAvoy
I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking. Teri Garr
I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president. Elizabeth Gilbert
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. Barbara De Angelis
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home. Elizabeth Edwards
You can block a marriage, but you cannot force a marriage. Emmanuel Macron
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. Honore de Balzac
Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us - the Supreme Court, President Obama - against traditional religion. Ben Shapiro
It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana's 'head and master rule,' that the husband was head and master of the house. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. St. Jerome
Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye. P. J. O'Rourke
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. Enid Bagnold
I think men are mainly unfaithful because as they get older, they feel the urge to prove to themselves that they are still attractive. They need proof from outside the marriage. It's really sad. It's all about them. It's not about their wives at all. Pattie Boyd
Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble. Mira Nair
There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded. Princess Diana
If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There's plenty of time for that after marriage. Zsa Zsa Gabor
A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be. Barbara Cartland
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. C. S. Lewis
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! Jacques Pepin
I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage. Keith O'Brien
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. Boris Pasternak
My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage. Kareena Kapoor Khan
My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend. Rodney Dangerfield
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. Steve Chabot
Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death. Jackie Kennedy
Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing. Robert Kiyosaki
Forever, it was just soccer - passion, life, love. Then I got married, and I had to transfer some of my energy. I want to be my best for my country, but I also made a really big promise and choice to be the best in my marriage. That has not always been the easiest thing to manage. Abby Wambach
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. Pope John Paul II
And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion. Mitt Romney
While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage. John Boehner
I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted. Bernadette Peters
I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce. Melissa Etheridge
I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people. Joel Osteen
I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved. Gary Chapman
Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance. Charlize Theron
Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thing in the world. Kelly Slater
My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself. Kim Kardashian
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. Benjamin Disraeli
By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority arms well every challenger to a state law restricting marriage to its traditional definition. Antonin Scalia
What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life. Tom Petty
I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it. Rose Kennedy
Of course I love being in love - but it is marriage that really fulfills me. But not in every case. Zsa Zsa Gabor
Until the courts put a stop to it, public debate over same-sex marriage displayed American democracy at its best. Individuals on both sides of the issue passionately, but respectfully, attempted to persuade their fellow citizens to accept their views. Antonin Scalia
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. Honore de Balzac
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. John Gay
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. Jean Rostand
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. Rita Rudner
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. Helen Rowland
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? Samuel Butler
When you see a merger between two giants in a declining industry, it can look like the financial version of a couple having a baby to save a marriage. Adam Davidson
In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms. Jeff Bridges
We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman. Ken Calvert
Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners. Rowan Williams
There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government, any government, thinks it has the ability to change the definition of an institution like marriage. Philip Hammond
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. Winston Churchill
Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people. Erica Jong
I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage. Stephen Harper
It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed. Carrie Underwood
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. Oscar Wilde
The Obama years will be remembered as a cultural - and legal - tipping point for equality for all people who do not identify as strictly heterosexual, arguably the civil rights movement of our times. The president signed the bill repealing 'don't ask, don't tell.' The Defense of Marriage Act was struck down by the Supreme Court. Charles M. Blow
I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed. Kirstie Alley
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. Hubert H. Humphrey
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage. Gertrude Stein
I think that with marriages, people have to understand that you have to look at your marriage and understand what is needed in your marriage - not what people think your marriage should be or what people want your marriage to be. Jada Pinkett Smith
When you genuinely feel like that was the right relationship, you're supposed to give it all you can. That's what marriage is about. Khloe Kardashian
Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided. John Wooden
Old white guys can be a funny bunch, can't they? The same anti-same-sex marriage, anti-affirmative action cadre can flower into the biggest supporters of 'equality' the minute they get a whiff of minority empowerment. John Ridley
In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you. Andy Garcia
I don't know about marriage as much as I do know that I'd be a great father. Tyler Perry
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them. Ogden Nash
Marriage isn't always cupcakes and Jesus juice, but it's important to show each other your marriage is a priority and that you still love them. Zoe Foster Blake
I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman. James Ellroy
The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens. Ted Cruz
What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir? Asif Ali Zardari
The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips. What is involved is love for the entire family that one is marrying into. Dada Vaswani
I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people. Kristin Chenoweth
Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids. Melina Kanakaredes
Before I go on selling the joy of working with your spouse, I should make something clear: Although we have a great marriage, it is as trying as anyone's. Christa Miller
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. Prince Philip
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. John Updike
There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies. Iyanla Vanzant
Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people. Pope Benedict XVI
It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age. Frances McDormand
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. Jamie Lee Curtis
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank. Jean de la Bruyere
Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children. Jonathan Haidt
You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process. Viggo Mortensen
Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement. Maggie Gallagher
By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us. Barbara Mandrell
I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work. Princess Diana
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. John Steinbeck
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. Martin Luther
Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so. Timothy Noah
I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me. Shia LaBeouf
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. Pink
My views are very fluctuating. I have very contradictory takes on the subject. Dating is easier, while marriage is hard work. You see your friends having early divorces, and on the other hand, you see your parents having a successful marriage. Kangana Ranaut
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. Sacha Guitry
My greatest concern is that Mitt Romney seldom addresses the social issues publicly... I'm referring to the sanctity of human life, the traditional definition of marriage, and religious liberty. James Dobson
I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred. Natalie Portman
I got my green card and everything through my work, even before marriage or anything like that, so you really have to follow the rules and do everything the right way to be able to accomplish that, so it was big... I had my green card for so long. Camila Alves
We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people. Pope Benedict XVI
We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage. Ted Cruz
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means. Henny Youngman
I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want? Max Schmeling
But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall. Anna Benson
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society. Jack Kingston
Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker. Mary Douglas
It's lovely being a parent and being in a strong marriage with somebody who is your best friend. Johnny Vegas
On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife. Rachel Swirsky
When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage. Kevin Hart
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. Miroslav Volf
First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment. Maximilian Schell
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.' Nancy Pearcey
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. Honore de Balzac
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. Sacha Guitry
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. Voltaire
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. Todd Tiahrt
There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage. Phil McGraw
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. Ann Landers
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. Hedy Lamarr
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. William Shakespeare
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. Herbert Spencer
I don't want to make any judgments, and I don't want to preach, but I'm hoping that marriage can work: that when people do fall in love, when people do find their soul mate, everyone sticks to it. It has the potential to be a very powerful thing, marriage. Jonathan Silverman
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. Michel de Montaigne
In general, everybody should admit the world is changing really fast, and it's hard for the conversations to keep up. I mean, it's hard to remember now, but when Barack Obama ran for president, he was against gay marriage. Bill Haslam
Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry. Rita Rudner
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms. Franz Kafka
My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family. Lisa Bonet
As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility. Dick Van Dyke
You have to continue to grow and evolve as individuals in order for your marriage to evolve. It takes two pillars to support a structure. If those two pillars become one, you have a structure that teeters. Tamara Tunie
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. Leonardo da Vinci
I want a happy marriage and whatever it takes to achieve that. But I think the main prerequisite would have to be respect. He would have to respect me and vice-versa. And, that would be more important than being in love. I think respect really goes a long way. And he would have to keep me happy. And he'd have to be very, very, secure. Shilpa Shetty
I learned to cook in self-defense. My wife doesn't know what a kitchen is. In the first month of our marriage, she broiled lamb chops 26 nights in a row. Then I took over. I used to mind her not caring about food, but no more - as long as I can eat what I want. Alan King
As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father 'giving' the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to 'obey' the groom. And that only covers the wedding. Jessica Valenti
My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way. Mitt Romney
The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore. Ian Mckellen
For someone to say that marriage is only about procreation is a joke. I didn't marry my husband to have children. I married my husband because I love my husband. Aisha Tyler
I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention. Linda McCartney
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. Iris Murdoch
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage. Sydney J. Harris
It is essential that God created men and women to be one, as it is said in the first chapters of the Bible. So I think even if our culture is against marriage as essential form of relations between human beings, between women and men. I think our nature is always present, and we can understand it if we will understand it. Pope Benedict XVI
I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage. Vidya Balan
My grandfather used to write one sentence every day in his journal: 'I love Anne more than ever today.' I think that was his meditation - keeping him in his marriage, and also his appreciation for it. It was very touching. Justin Theroux
American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them. Florence King
In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do. Earl Warren
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. Marilyn Monroe
A lasting relationship isn't about marriage. It's about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work. Goldie Hawn
Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right? Michelle Pfeiffer
What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child. Qandeel Baloch
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued. Helen Rowland
Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order. Elizabeth Gilbert
When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved. Gordon B. Hinckley
I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't. Diane Abbott
If we are going to realise our ambition of ending the harmful practices of FGM and forced marriage, the role of young people in pushing for change is crucial. We also need to ensure that everyone, from government to civil society, is playing their part. Theresa May
Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate. Joe Moore
To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham. Richard Dawkins
Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage. Kate Braverman
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting. Helen Rowland
My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds. Hugh Hefner
Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage? Rick Santorum
I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage. Sarah Jessica Parker
As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God's definition of marriage, between a man and a woman. Billy Graham
I've just concluded - since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people, and enjoys an attractive countenance - thus if it becomes necessary, I shall travel to Washington, D.C., get down on my knee, and ask his hand. Robert Mugabe
For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate. Aasif Mandvi
On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between two logical views of the universe: the Catholic-Christian and the Individualistic Monist. And bridges are made to go over, not to stand upon. Ellen Key
Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake. Elbert Hubbard
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten. Dick Gregory
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments. Maggie Gallagher
At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Sam Brownback
A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is, somebody owes somebody money. Goldie Hawn
My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that - well, my father's family came as Puritans to Massachusetts. Phil Jackson
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time. Julia Child
May these vows and this marriage be blessed. Rumi
'Revolutionary Road' is a fascinating study of the human condition of a fragmenting marriage and the torment that these two people put themselves through in their efforts to try and find happiness and try and stay together, actually. Kate Winslet
A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage. Chris Rock
A good marriage is different to a happy marriage. Debra Winger
My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman. Ben Carson
Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle. Lindsey Vonn
We're used to boy meets girl, boy likes girl, instant attraction on TV. But you throw a son in there, you throw a marriage in there, and you've got some really good character stuff. Matt Passmore
What sort of job can you hold in America in which it is safe to hold the personal conviction that same-sex marriage is wrong? The answer: there is no such job. Except Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. Then you're fine. Ben Shapiro
In Indonesia, where I am from, the Dutch-imposed Civil Code dating back to the colonial 1870s prevailed until the 1974 Law on Marriage granted married women greater rights, including the ability to open individual bank accounts. Sri Mulyani Indrawati
I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage. Sade Adu
I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do. Queen Latifah
It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass. Rodney Dangerfield
Academia is very flexible, but I had a spouse who was very committed to being a completely full partner in our marriage. I think if you counted up how many hours each one of us logged in, he certainly gets more than 50%. Janet Yellen
Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Like the marriage contract you entered into, your divorce is a legal transaction. Treat it that way. Try not to let emotion, hurt, fear or anger dictate the circumstances of your discussions or negotiations. Laura Wasser
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. Vera Brittain
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. Susan B. Anthony
I'll say this: The media wasn't invited to my marriage, and they're definitely not invited into the divorce. Ryan Reynolds
The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards. Samuel Adams
Marriage has always been a state and local issue. Rand Paul
I think what's dangerous about marriage is the way it can make you feel like you've got it all wrapped up. Like you're done: you've found your spouse, you've married him or her, and you don't need to think too much more about it. Ariel Levy
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. Andre Maurois
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. Iris Murdoch
I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard. Ethan Hawke
I married my husband because I loved him, and I don't feel like there's anybody missing from our marriage, but when you think about this person that you love, and you think about what a wonderful thing it would be to bring another person like that into this world, I think that's the hardest part about all of it. Aisha Tyler
What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness! Elizabeth Bibesco
I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages. John Mahoney
If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right. Simon Cowell
My father, a refugee from Eastern Europe, was preparing a fraudulent marriage to an American citizen as a route to this country when he was sponsored, making fraud unnecessary. My wife's grandfather bought papers from another Chinese villager to be able to come to the United States. Nicholas Kristof
My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her. Matt Damon
The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage. Maria Montessori
Marriage was never a destination with me. Diane von Furstenberg
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. Clint Eastwood
I am shamed to realize that in my marriage, my daughters never heard their father and me fight, which also meant, perhaps, that we didn't truly communicate. Sandra Tsing Loh
I am not into marriage. You look at all the marriages breaking down and all the people cheating on their marriages, and you become cynical. Marriage is nothing but a label. Nargis Fakhri
Many queer and trans people live - and lived - in our prison and jails, in our homeless shelters, in run-down houses and apartment buildings, and on the corners of every major city. Marriage equality doesn't help them; and the potential loss of momentum for trans/queer rights after this win could well hurt them. Chelsea Manning
Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own. Eddie Cantor
If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine. Shelley Long
I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage. Elizabeth Edwards
We live too long for one marriage. Yoko Ono
I do believe that God blessed me in life with a wonderful family, a successful career, and a loving marriage, and remain thankful for that blessing. Bonnie Tyler
What your beliefs are about anything creates your actions. What you believe about marriage creates the way you handle your marriage. What you believe about raising kids creates the way you do that. Dave Ramsey
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. Joseph Campbell
When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William's marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. 'Wet' is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin'. Snoop Dogg
Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage. Jimmy Dean
Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner. Candace Cameron Bure
Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke. Joyce Meyer
Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. George Will
I think Donald Trump's interpretation of marriage is something that he himself doesn't really believe in. 'Traditional marriage' is where two people love each other, commit to each other, care for each other over the years. It is a meaningful ceremony, and his interpretation of that is not recognizing what real marriage is. George Takei
I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much. Pat Travers
American liberals have become addicted to the courtroom, relying on judges and lawyers rather than elected leaders and the ballot box, as the primary means of effecting their social agenda on everything from gay marriage to assisted suicide to the use of vouchers for private-school education. Neil Gorsuch
I'm an advocate for gay marriage. I have more gay friends than Carter has pills. Patti Stanger
When you form a band, you form a real relationship that's like a marriage. It's an emotional connection, especially when you're young... because you don't know what's out there. Robert Coppola Schwartzman
I never even had a bachelorhood: I went straight from my parents' home to a marriage. Dick Van Dyke
I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily. J. Paul Getty
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother. Sam Levenson
I don't discriminate against any fans. Fans are fans, and gay men are great. I support gay marriage and the whole bit. I think everybody should be able to be with who they want to be with. Scott Eastwood
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles. Henry Ward Beecher
A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing to protect traditional marriages. Coretta Scott King
There's lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it's an inspiring rally point. Ty Burrell
If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure. Phil McGraw
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. Simone Signoret
There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage. Jill Scott
When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a 'good man' before they are all taken. Sheryl Sandberg
I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected. Billy Graham
Singles have a purpose that is higher than any earthly relationship. Marriage is honorable, but so is being single. Monica Johnson
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. Benjamin Franklin
Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth. Gary Vaynerchuk
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. Robert Louis Stevenson
I think marriage is all about timing. Cate Blanchett
The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family. Eminem
In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me. Caroline Kennedy
When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage. Rand Paul
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. Peter De Vries
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end. Alphonse Karr
I like the idea of marriage. I like the idea that I have a best friend. It's just really comforting. I remember being single and trying to date, and it was just stressful and hard. It wasn't fun. Armie Hammer
Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again! Karen Salmansohn
Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant. Loretta Lynn
It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others. Helen Rowland
Families are not merely constructs of outdated convention, and traditional marriage laws were not based on animosity toward homosexuals. Rather, I believe that the traditional family structure - centered on a lawful union between one man and one woman - comports with nature and with our Judeo-Christian moral tradition. Charles T. Canady
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. Gerald Brenan
If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is legal to enjoy the same economic advantages that federal laws now grant to straight couples? Or is it a 'conservative' ruling, limiting the federal government's ability to override state power? Jeff Greenfield
I've had marriage proposals, invitations to military balls and even a few prom offers from 18-year-old boys. Hope Solo
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. Honore de Balzac
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. Benjamin Franklin
In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship. Tim Allen
It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage. Garcelle Beauvais
For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in the air as our lives filled up and praying they wouldn't come crashing down on our heads. Willow Bay
I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public. Kareena Kapoor Khan
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. Andre Maurois
When you're so close to material, it would be as if you had come out of a bad marriage. You would be so close to it that you would be paying attention to detail that may not mean a whole lot for the reader. Tim O'Brien
Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages, whether it's living together, or being with six partners, or dedicating your life to taking care of flowers. Sandra Bullock
The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place. Sacha Guitry
I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific. Jeff Bridges
No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office. Rutherford B. Hayes
My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage - everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ. Lee Strobel
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. Alain de Botton
When I get married, it'll be no secret. Elvis Presley
For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end. Catherine Zeta-Jones
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. Carson Daly
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation. Mark Twain
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man. Henrik Ibsen
I do think your personal life has an impact on your tennis. If your private life is up and down, and you're thinking about what is going on back home, then you aren't solely focused on your job, but when things are good back home, it's so much easier when you're on court. It's not necessarily marriage; it's more having a stable relationship. Andy Murray
One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again. Judith Viorst
We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy. Joyce Meyer
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house. Jean Kerr
In the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality. Tsai Ing-wen
The fact that what we believe about marriage - that it should be between a man and a woman - and that we're pro-life, somehow that becomes radical? Why is that? It's because our culture has changed. But the truth is, culture may change, people change, but the Word of God never changes, and that's what we rest our belief system on. Robert Jeffress
To enter upon the marriage union is one of the most deeply important events of life. It cannot be too prayerfully treated. Our happiness, our usefulness, our living for God or for ourselves afterwards, are often most intimately connected with our choice. Therefore, in the most prayerful manner, this choice should be made. George Muller
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. Harold Nicolson
The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power. Ted Cruz
People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.' Jane Asher
Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity. Carla Bruni
It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards. John Lydon
Marriage is a blood sport. Marriage is jousting. It's disembowelment. It's just terrible, terrible visceral injuries. It's not for everybody. Aisha Tyler
To me, this is the perfect marriage. There's no friction. There's just, we have what they need, they have what we need. And so IBM is in the process, with our help, of designing many different apps for many different verticals. Tim Cook
When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity. Robert Anton Wilson
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. John C. Maxwell
My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art. J. Robert Oppenheimer
Marriage is a mistake every man should make. George Jessel
Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box. Jennifer Aniston
Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest. Yoko Ono
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. George Bernard Shaw
The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time. A. P. Herbert
If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does. Phil McGraw
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. Doris Lessing
We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage. Robin Morgan
I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it. Nas
There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage. Alexander Theroux
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. Samuel Butler
I like marriage. The idea. Toni Morrison
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. Alan King
I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance. Frank Carson
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Every girl should be married at least once in her life. It's a must. Because once you have been married, you are a Mrs., and even if the marriage doesn't work out, they can't take that away from you. Zsa Zsa Gabor
When a gently born spinster has little money, her choices are few. She might receive an offer of marriage, but it's unlikely to be from a wealthy man, so she'll have a hard life trying to make ends meet for her growing family. Jo Beverley
No persons professing to be Christians should enter the marriage relation until the matter has been carefully and prayerfully considered from an elevated standpoint, to see if God can be glorified by the union. Ellen G. White
Just as the unique characteristics of both males and females contribute to the completeness of a marriage relationship, so those same characteristics are vital to the rearing, nurturing, and teaching of children. David A. Bednar
I wanted to be the first girl in my class to get married. From the seventh grade on, I used to write in my yearbook under each senior's picture, 'married' or 'engaged.' I had marriage on the brain. Shirley Temple
If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice. Estelle Getty
Anyone who watched George W. and Karl Rove while the former was governor of Texas will recognize a familiar pattern. Like much of Bush's social policy - from faith-based social services to railing against gay marriage - women's issues are one of the bones they've decided they can throw to the Christian right. Molly Ivins
When someone comes up to me and says, 'Mary, you helped save my marriage', or, 'Mary, you helped me get out of this abusive relationship', I'm in it, really in their lives. And I'm so passionate about my feelings, but also about showing people the way through theirs. Mary J. Blige
Marriage is something I'd recommend everyone to try, if you find the right person, of course. Vidya Balan
I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society. Brigitte Bardot
Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot... I've seen all these marriages that failed. Those people are always hollering at each other. That doesn't work. Jim Harrison
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. Queen Victoria
New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture. Wendell Pierce
If a relationship is going wrong, if a marriage is going wrong, the answer cannot simply be to say, 'You can't afford to break up because you are going to lose the house.' The answer has to be only one thing, which is 'I love you.' Rory Stewart
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. Emma Goldman
It's nice to be able to work; I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it. Joan Cusack
Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, 'It is not good for a woman to live alone.' Anna Held
I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there's nothing wrong with it. Tia Mowry
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce
Of course I dream to have this perfect man who does not want to change me. And I'm so not marriage material, it's terrible. But my dream is to have those Sunday mornings, where you're eating breakfast and reading newspapers with somebody. Marina Abromovic
The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married. Finley Peter Dunne
I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It's not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I'll do it because it's a moment that will stick with me forever. Tim Allen
Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit. Cate Blanchett
Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom. Edmund White
Marriage is the hardest work you're ever going to do. Julie Andrews
Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day. Harry Connick, Jr.
When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place. Helen Gahagan
I like getting married, but I don't like being married. Don Adams
What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job. Barack Obama
I'm definitely willing to film it for sure. I feel like I've taken people on this incredible journey on 'Total Divas' and 'Total Bellas.' They have seen me cry, get angry, and be so many different ways about marriage. I feel like for my fan base, my Bella Army, I should let them tune in to my wedding. Nikki Bella
Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist. Masaharu Morimoto
All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. Raymond Hull
I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do. Marilyn Manson
With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal government be telling adults who love one another that they cannot get married simply because they happen to be gay? Lisa Murkowski
In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage. Vendela Kirsebom
The United States is in a time of transition. Courts have redefined marriage, and beliefs about human sexuality are changing. Will the right to dissent be protected? Will the right of Americans to speak and act in accord with what the United States had always believed about marriage - that it's a union of husband and wife - be tolerated? Edwin Meese
I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen. Tori Amos
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. Oscar Wilde
Marriage is something that needs to be worked on every day. I don't know if I'm the one to give marital advice since I've only been married for a little over a year, but marriage is certainly easier if you are open, trusting and loving. Emily Blunt
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. Alexander Pope
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. Joseph Joubert
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond. Thomas Love Peacock
But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean? Robert Downey, Jr.
Isn't that sort of what happened with gay marriage? Right before gay marriage was legalized, everybody was just losing their minds and, like, the worst possible things were happening, and it was just all like it couldn't get any worse, and then it suddenly got a lot better. Megan Mullally
Marriage is becoming sort of fake. It's almost like a handbag. Everybody wants the newest, greatest and latest. It becomes an event, and it's definitely a status symbol in our society. I'm not saying it shouldn't be; it absolutely should be - but you shouldn't be focusing on that. Rob Lowe
Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys. Camille Paglia
Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. Dora Russell
The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone. Dolly Parton
I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year. Bette Davis
This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? Azar Nafisi
But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous. Garret Dillahunt
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. John Updike
I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us. Kinky Friedman
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there. J. Paul Getty
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so. Harriet Martineau
With my divorce, and even during the end of my marriage before it even got publicly bad, how I decided to cope with things was to go on the treadmill for an hour. Khloe Kardashian
I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships. Hillary Clinton
If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity. Gordon B. Hinckley
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little. Oliver Goldsmith
Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended. Cher
Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done. Burt Reynolds
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius. Warren Beatty
Love is often the fruit of marriage. Moliere
More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed. Rainer Maria Rilke
People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie... you know, we didn't always have the greatest days. For at least half the length of our marriage we were separated, so everyday was definitely not a good day. Faith Evans
I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear. Mike Birbiglia
We need a Congress that understands the sanctity of life, the sanctity of traditional values, the sanctity of traditional marriage. Thom Tillis
I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero. Charlie Sheen
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. Jasmine Guy
I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God. Manny Pacquiao
Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let's not build a fence across the border. Gary Johnson
Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too. Sonia Johnson
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. Groucho Marx
I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time. John Naisbitt
I was born to be married. I just feel comfortable there. I love the idea of being partnered for ever. I love my girlfriend, we've been best friends since I was 18. There's not a thing we haven't been through except for marriage... We've had talks about what we would name our kids since we were in our 20s. Beth Ditto
The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman. Billy Graham
It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family. Alan Keyes
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage. Tertullian
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution? H. L. Mencken
Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility? Hillary Clinton
Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples. Neil Simon
The sweet companionship of eternal marriage is one of the greatest blessings God has granted to His children. Joseph B. Wirthlin
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. Peter De Vries
They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me. R. Kelly
Joe was being called a liar and a traitor; I'm being accused of nepotism, of being a glorified secretary. The stresses that that places on an individual and, of course, a marriage were tremendous. It was - there were some dark days. Valerie Plame
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. Sydney Smith
I feel that heterosexual marriage is the more excellent way, and it surely is approved holy by the Holy Bible, and it holds so many more possibilities: the possibilities of having children of both the mother and father, the male and the female. Robert H. Schuller
If I get married, I want to be very married. Audrey Hepburn
It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage. Doris Day
Judaism doesn't recognize gay marriage, just as we don't recognize milk and meat together as kosher, and nothing will change it... I'm not a hypocrite; I state my positions. Naftali Bennett
The Constitution of the United States has absolutely nothing to say about a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. Were the federal courts to recognize such a right, it would be completely without constitutional basis. Newt Gingrich
Marriage is hard. I'm not gonna lie. Aisha Tyler
I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues. Walter Cronkite
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. Erma Bombeck
Alzheimer's disease is never an 'accident' in a marriage. It falls under the purview of God's sovereignty. In the case of someone with Alzheimer's, this means God's unconditional and sacrificial love has an opportunity to be even more gloriously displayed in a life together. Joni Eareckson Tada
Gay marriage - it's not about two people being gay: it's about two people who love each other and who have decided to commit to each other for the exact same reasons any other couple would get married. Luke Macfarlane
I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever. Lauren Bacall
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. Jean Giraudoux
But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.' Ali Larter
Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation. Rick Wright
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. Isadora Duncan
To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation. Antonin Scalia
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. Woody Allen
Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community. Malcolm Gladwell
Marriage was defined by God a long time ago. Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve - one man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. Kirk Cameron
I'm a creative person. I love to write, I love to act, I love to perform, I love to create things with my hands, so I do all of these things that are kind of like hobbies in a way. They're things that I love, so it's not like a work-life balance; it's just a work-life marriage. Krysten Ritter
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. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't. Kirk Cameron
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. Rita Rudner
To Barack Obama, if you believe in traditional marriage, you are a homophobe. If you believe men shouldn't go into women's bathrooms and showers, you are a bigot. If you believe the unborn have a right to life, you must hate women. Robert Jeffress
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass. Douglas William Jerrold
Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex. Dennis Prager
May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise. Rumi
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. Ellen DeGeneres
Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life! Lana Turner
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband. Booth Tarkington
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long. Amy Grant
The death of marriage has been announced so often and would seem so normal, in a sense. So what's surprising is the sheer longevity and tenacity of this institution. Alain de Botton
Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians. Mitt Romney
Marriage is anti-romantic - husband and wife are terms like 'turkey' and 'goose.' Worse, they denote ownership. Thomas McGuane
Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right. Cory Booker
Marriage equality is a hustler's feeding frenzy of gold-diggers. I campaigned for marriage equality in Maryland because I believe we should have the right to it, but I personally don't want to get married. I don't want to imitate the traditions of heterosexual people. I hate weddings: they make me uneasy. John Waters
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. Soren Kierkegaard
Homosexuals can be, you know, committed to each other. And they have freedom to behave in the ways that they do, but they cannot be a family. They cannot be married. I mean, virtually every culture in the history of the world has considered marriage to be between one woman and one man. James Dobson
I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have. Theresa May
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. H. L. Mencken
It's a lot of work to make a marriage work. Just because you have been married for a while doesn't mean you can sit back and relax. You still have to be on your toes. A marriage needs constant attention. Malaika Arora Khan
We make no greater voluntary choice in this life than the selection of a marriage partner. This decision can bring eternal happiness and joy. To find sublime fulfillment in marriage, both partners need to be fully committed to the marriage. James E. Faust
Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples? Ted Olson
Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work. Gordon B. Hinckley
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults. Richard Armour
My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce. Sophie Ellis-Bextor
In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and in part because of trepidation about marriage, which was then a very confining institution, there was a big population of women - mostly middle-class white women on the East Coast - who didn't marry. Rebecca Traister
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage. Maria Callas
I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of cynical about romance and marriage but ultimately embraced it. Because I feel like comedy is always cynical, inherently, because it's contrarian. Mike Birbiglia
I still believe in love. I believe in marriage. Usher
Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men. Marilyn Monroe
After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him. Helen Rowland
It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out. Joanna Lumley
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague. Robert Burton
I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president. Indra Nooyi
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. Beverley Nichols
My advice to Robin is listen to your heart, do what you feel. Follow your heart in love and marriage as you would in careers, and you'll be fine. Robin has a great heart. He's a fabulous father. Alan Thicke
Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people. Katherine Heigl
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. William Congreve
The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. Nikola Tesla
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers. Alan King
Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty. Jerry Weller
My father was very big on marriage. Sidney Poitier
I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much. Bob Newhart
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. Benjamin Franklin
Liberty University will not lend its name or financial support to undermine marriage or to promote abortion. Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Same sex marriage, it's not a big concern to me. Tomi Lahren
It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter. Deborah Moggach
I made an awful mess of my first marriage. It was hard to live with me being me. I was so abnormal. I mean, most writers struggle. I hadn't struggled. I couldn't suddenly go down to the PEN Club and behave like a normal human being, because most of those guys were struggling to make a couple of thousand pounds a year. John le Carre
I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. Nancy Reagan
Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave. Elizabeth Gilbert
The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods. Bill Cosby
Most kids just follow the cycle. My grandfather didn't finish high school. My father didn't, and I didn't. But you can break the cycle. You can have a successful marriage and be a good father. Eric D. Thomas
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. Martin Seligman
I don't care how handsome or fabulous or funny the groom is, or how sweet and accommodating the bride, or vice versa. Marriage is hard. Jenna McCarthy
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers. Eddie Cantor
A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh. Tori Amos
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am a big believer in marriage. Kate Winslet
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. Helen Rowland
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. Homer
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping. Mignon McLaughlin
Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. George W. Bush
Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today. Jared Polis
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation. Abraham Maslow
I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom. Michael Bergin
First thing I said to him was, 'LeBron, you know this is true. We had five good years and one bad night'. Like a marriage that's good, and then one bad thing happens, and you never talk to each other again. Dan Gilbert
I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off. Gloria Steinem
People should be allowed to marry, and gay marriage should be out there. If a man or a woman has a good partner and they love each other with their heart and soul, let them marry. I am very much for gay marriage. Pierce Brosnan
Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all. Jason Mraz
I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.' Amanda Bynes
Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day. Barbara De Angelis
In many ways, a song-writing partnership is like a marriage. Apart from just liking each other, a lyricist and a composer should be able to spend long periods of time together - around the clock if need be - without getting on each other's nerves. Their goals, outlooks, and basic philosophies should be similar. Richard Rodgers
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. William Penn
In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation. Pope Francis
I love Matthew Broderick. Call me crazy, but I love him. We can only be in the marriage we are. We're very devoted to our family and our lives. I love our life. I love that he's the father of my children, and it's because of him that there's this whole other world that I love. Sarah Jessica Parker
Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family. John Boehner
All of us, wherever we happen to stand on the marriage equality issue, can agree that all our children deserve the opportunity to live in a loving, caring, committed, and stable home, protected equally under the law. Martin O'Malley
Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day. Mickey Rooney
I love producing other people's work, but presenting is a very serious business. It's a marriage. Guillermo del Toro
The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership. Helen Mirren
I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. Robert Louis Stevenson
I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage. Bob Newhart
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce. P. J. O'Rourke
When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship. Lady Gaga
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. Brendan Behan
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police. Robert Louis Stevenson
How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving. Erica Jong
Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man. Jeff Bridges
A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most. Nancy Pelosi
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. Myles Munroe
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash. Joyce Brothers
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. Rita Rudner
In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded of their failures and limited by the energies of another person. It is rife with judgment and blame. Marianne Williamson
The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions. Katy Perry
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. Pearl S. Buck
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life. Maria Monk
Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house. Lewis Grizzard
Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it is not an isolated one. His administration has been making pro-gay noises for some time; his demographic in the upcoming election is young and educated, precisely the group that favours equality for the LGBT community. Edmund White
It is disgusting that 'Life & Style' and 'InTouch' magazines continue to print these false stories about my life: the status of my marriage, false reports about a miscarriage, the horrible lie that my dad is not my biological father, jealousy over my sisters' lives, etc. Khloe Kardashian
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up. Ogden Nash
Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit. Seamus Heaney
Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He's called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He's in favor of open borders. James Dobson
Marriage is an exercise in torture. Frances Conroy
You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse. Omar Khayyam
Gay marriage is going to happen. It must. Lady Gaga
In a month's time, I shall be able to give your Majesty news of the Comtesse de Provence, for the marriage is fixed for May 14th; they had prepared many fetes for this marriage, but now they are economising in them for want of money. Marie Antoinette
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. Gail Collins
In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged. J. Robert Oppenheimer
I believe that all men and women are created equal, but it took our country until 1920 to acknowledge this for women. And then it took until 1964, the year before I was born, to outlaw discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. And same-sex marriage became the law of the land in 2015. Brad Feld
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about. Katharine Hepburn
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. Jane Austen
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. Martin Luther
If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account. Al Goldstein
Vice President Biden's surprising declaration of unqualified support for gay marriage seems to have forced President Obama into a public endorsement of a controversial social issue. It is difficult not to suspect that Biden's pronouncement aimed to give the president some political cover. Robert Dallek
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! William Hazlitt
Liberty University is pro-life and believes that marriage between one man and one woman provides the best environment for children. Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning. Jane Harrison
Righteous marriage is a commandment and an essential step in the process of creating a loving family relationship that can be perpetuated beyond the grave. David A. Bednar
Spanglish is the encounter: perhaps the word is marriage or divorce of English and Spanish, but also of Anglo and Hispanic civilizations - not only in the United States but in the entire continent and, perhaps, also in Spain. Ilan Stavans
There are many things that keep me from getting married. But there will be a time when marriage makes sense to me. Adam Levine
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of. Mae West
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us. George Bernard Shaw
I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation. Henry Rollins
Marriage is not easy. You have to decide to work. That's what it really comes down to: two people deciding to stay together or not. Darius Rucker
I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that. Jack Nicholson
If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage. Bob Newhart
I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be. Anna Kendrick
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. Joey Adams
Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. Mitt Romney
We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together. Rodney Dangerfield
I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget. Bianca Jagger
Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior. Gary Bauer
Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever. Kevin Gates
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. John Updike
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. Ben Shapiro
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement. J. Paul Getty
Marriage is scary to me, man. The Weeknd
Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career. Sam Ewing
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. Katharine Hepburn
I believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman. Mitch McConnell
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth. Edwin Louis Cole
Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well. Anita Shreve
The United States Constitution does not one time even mention marriage. It neither requires Congress or the states to adopt same-sex marriage laws nor does it forbid them from maintaining traditional marriage laws. Trent Franks
Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it. Marianne Williamson
Proponents of same-sex marriage regularly label opponents 'radical' and 'extremist.' However, given that no society in thousands of years has allowed same-sex marriage, it is, by definition, the proponents of same-sex marriage whose position is radical and extreme. Dennis Prager
Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die. Johnny Carson
When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned. Marie Osmond
Every single person suffers; every marriage has some major battles. Life pulls you in different directions. But if you try, and you're lucky, you can find your way back to each other. Taya Kyle
People might be surprised because I settled for an arranged marriage, but that's what's chosen for us. Karan Patel
I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone. Faith Hill
If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist. James Dobson
In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, 'Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn't understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn't fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn't want it to get any worse. You're the mother of my kids - I don't want to hate you.' Kevin Hart
Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch. Dennis Miller
I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children. Salma Hayek
I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way. Elizabeth Edwards
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'. Herbert Spencer
If someone wants to marry you outside the temple, whom will you strive to please - God or a mortal? If you insist on a temple marriage, you will be pleasing the Lord and blessing the other party. Ezra Taft Benson
Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union. Coretta Scott King
Marriage was never my goal, because I've never been very traditional. Chrissy Teigen
I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman. George W. Bush
When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person. Allison Pearson
TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children. Lucille Ball
I think it's important for people to understand that this started with President Bill Clinton. He, as president, thought it was such a big priority, he passed the defense of marriage - defense of traditional non-gay marriage - that we have it as a federal law. Kellyanne Conway
In articulating all my feelings about marriage equality, I almost don't know where to begin. And perhaps that's part of the problem. Why do we have to explain ourselves when it comes to issues of fairness and equality? Why is common sense not enough? Scott Fujita
The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage. Al Goldstein
The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had legalized gay marriage, despite intense opposition from the religious right. Edmund White
I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you. Faith Evans
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. Hesiod
I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all. Lauren Bacall
I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman. Rand Paul
Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex? Malcolm Turnbull
My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish. Alec Baldwin
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. George Carey
I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage. Stephen Harper
Marriage changes everything. Marilyn Manson
Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage. Stockwell Day
When I'm weak, you can be strong; when I'm strong, you can be weak. That's what I believe marriage is. Gisele Bundchen
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. Franz Schubert
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both. Guy de Maupassant
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. George Bernard Shaw
Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends. Joe Rogan
In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage. Arlie Russell Hochschild
A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance. Tullian Tchividjian
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. Zsa Zsa Gabor
From the new hate crimes law to the repeal of DOMA and 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' to the emerging popular support for marriage equality, we are making progress at breakneck speed. As someone who has dedicated most of my career to civil rights law, I am deeply moved by this sea change and proud to have done my part. Thomas E. Perez
The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight. Paul Bloom
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient. Voltaire
Marriage has been a way of attempting to ensure the replication of power and wealth from one generation of another, passing it down from men to men. Rebecca Traister
I believe that the essence of marriage is choosing someone who loves you for who you are, embraces everything about you, and building a life with that person. Whether that life is with children or without children - it's honestly immaterial to building a life with someone that you love fully. Aisha Tyler
I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others. Princess Margaret
Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution. Jeff Sessions
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. Ian McShane
My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage. Salma Hayek
It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.' Garrett Hedlund
I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them. Marc Webb
Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit. Brian Littrell
Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it. Gene Simmons
I never looked at my parents' marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, 'I gotta get me some of that!' Mike Birbiglia
The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave. Rick Santorum
Marriage is a walk in the park compared to being a single mother or father. I'll take that walk later. Sophie B. Hawkins
I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this. Jim Carrey
I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination. Dennis Rodman
While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them. Neil Strauss
Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird. Joan Fontaine
Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be. Elizabeth Gilbert
The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans. Elliott Abrams
I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law. Paul Martin
To me marriage is for five or ten years. Cher
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. George Eliot
I support anyone who supports what's in the Republican platform, which includes support for traditional marriage. Scott Garrett
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred. William O. Douglas
There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage. Ted Cruz
In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow. Iyanla Vanzant
It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix. David Byrne
There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. Norman Mailer
Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it. Hillary Clinton
I'm in love with love and totally believe in marriage, but that's not even on my radar right now. I am not putting energy into dating. Selena Gomez
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. Henry Adams
TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives; it's like a marriage. Joss Whedon
You will often be in despair. You will sometimes think it's the worst decision in your life. That's fine. That's not a sign your marriage has gone wrong. It's a sign that it's normal; it's on track. And many of the hopes that took you into the marriage will have to die in order for the marriage to continue. Alain de Botton
Marriage is the death of hope. Woody Allen
With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits. Eleanor Holmes Norton
Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words. Adam Goldberg
Everyone's marriage is different. But everyone's marriage is a compromise. Ariel Levy
'Marriage' was not that big a deal, to be honest! I mean, it makes life easier for technical reasons: insurance, next-of-kin stuff, joint tax filing, etc. The real shocker was falling in love with the man I'm married to. I was 32 when we met, and I had really never been in a functional relationship before, had never been deeply in love. Rebecca Traister
I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman. Bill Frist
If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada. Mary Karr
There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have. P. J. O'Rourke
I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked. Gerard Way
If you have a difficult marriage, it's the hard times that make it better. If you have a relationship, it's the hard times that actually make it better, and that goes for life as well. Kerry Stokes
I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them. James Dobson
I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling. Hugh Jackman
You won't believe it, but for the first two years of our marriage I lived off my wife. Like every self-respecting man, I hated it. Ram Kapoor
Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It's all about who you pick; in that first moment, did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who's more interested in being married than in getting married. Rob Lowe
Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels like the soul of our nation has been taken from us. David Jeremiah
Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice. Anthony Weiner
Marriage isn't about a collection of scenes over ten years of two people telling each other that they love each other. It's about commitment. Jeff Nichols
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows. Jeremy Taylor
Marriage has just never interested me. Jacqueline Bisset
Divorce is not the end of the world. It's worse to stay in an unhealthy marriage. That's a worse example for the children. Jerry Hall
Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously. Bono
Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit. Margaret Cavendish
I've had two terrific relationships, but both ended in marriage. Jane Seymour
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation. Abraham Verghese
Marriage is a mystery, and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish. Aisha Tyler
Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage. Drew Barrymore
Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed. Isabel Allende
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse. Benjamin Spock
I think it's important to remember that you go into something like marriage knowing that you don't know very much about it at all. But I do look at the marriage of my mother and stepdad, and what makes it work for them is that it's a team effort. Justin Timberlake
Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view? William Shatner
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. Mel Gibson
I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married. Alec Baldwin
If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state? Tony Campolo
I may get married later or may never get married. But I want babies, so I'll have to get married. I want fat, cute babies. Every girl has to think about it at some point. For me, marriage is about family, and that's why I find it necessary. Till then, it's normal to have a partner and do your own thing. Alia Bhatt
The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage. Gene Simmons
Even prior to marriage and motherhood, it's always been about prioritising and focusing on what you can commit to. That's been my approach to every aspect of my life, be it my relationships or my professional commitments. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it. Brigitte Nielsen
I have a very intense marriage. James Ellroy
She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face. Henny Youngman
I love marriage. Jeff Bridges
Marriage isn't a carnival ride. Aisha Tyler
As you are not yet married, and as marriage is the fundamental state of life as well as the unity of the commonwealth, make up your mind whether you are called to this state. If you make up your mind to marry, do not marry merely a good wife: marry a good mother to your children. Vincent McNabb
When you don't have access to a subject, and all you have is ex-members and critics, there is this gravitational pull toward telling a certain version of events. Scientology would say this, and they have a point, that it's like doing a portrait of a marriage in which you're only hearing from the ex-wife and not the ex-husband. Louis Theroux
It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous. Ian Mckellen
My marriage to Marjorie is the most rewarding thing that ever happened to me. She gave me a life and a relationship that I didn't know existed. Steve Harvey
It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't. Spike Milligan
I've got two young sons who, when I ask them and their friends how they feel about gay marriage, kinda give me one of those looks like, 'Gosh, Mom, why are you even asking that question?' Lisa Murkowski
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. Samuel Johnson
I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution. Barack Obama
My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate. Carnie Wilson
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. W. H. Auden
I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage. Keith Richards
When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore. Louis C. K.
I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman. Arnold Schwarzenegger
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. Gloria Steinem
I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in. Kajol
When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails; I let it go off the rails. Stuart Rose
My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other. Marina Abramovic
My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one. Olivia Williams
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. Gloria Steinem
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance. Michel de Montaigne
A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other. Jessica Simpson
I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called. Ellen DeGeneres
Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. Rose George
Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity. Gary Bauer
I'm the person that I always was, but in terms of how I approach my living, I'm not the same person at all. At all. I've buried a child, I've ended a marriage, and the grandson that I was raising is now grown. My family has totally shifted. Iyanla Vanzant
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up. Les Dawson
'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song. Luanne Rice
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them. Barack Obama
For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure. Mariella Frostrup
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. Denis Diderot
Before, back in the '50s, women didn't have as many rights as men, so they had to be that stay-at-home wife and take care of the kids all day. But now, with marriage, it's a partnership. It's not like this old traditional marriage that it once was. Kendra Wilkinson
One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make. Max Lucado
I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes. Hugh Hefner
Nothing scares me about marriage. Divyanka Tripathi
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. Pearl S. Buck
I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me. Elizabeth Edwards
Marriage helps young couples to raise themselves towards God. The bond of marriage unites two souls so firmly that though they are physically two separate entities, their souls are merged into one harmonious whole. Dada Vaswani
Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again. Eddie Murphy
Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned. John Ridley
Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage. Henry Rollins
I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits. Elizabeth Gilbert
While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything! Lake Bell
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right. Barack Obama
I have a lady, she's a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We're on the same page. Whenever that day happens when we're not on the same page we'll move forward with it. We're interested in having our lives be our lives right now and not a third person's vis-a-vis marriage and whatever that means. Jon Hamm
I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed. Alain de Botton
Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school. Nate Berkus
The best dating advice I can give is... are you going in it for marriage, or are you going in it for just a date? You've got to be open about it right away, because the other person could be in it for marriage, but you're not. Kendra Wilkinson
Does God feel like that same-sex marriage could happen? I don't think anybody who has a connection to God and God's understanding and depth of compassion who's gonna say 'no.' Greg Boyle
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female. Anna Quindlen
I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations. Candice Olson
It's important to show each other your marriage is a priority. Zoe Foster Blake
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. Robert Louis Stevenson
Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life. Kajol
Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray
Those first few years of marriage, before the war interrupted all our lives, Phil and I had a very happy time. I grew up considerably, mostly thanks to him. Katharine Graham
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. Andre Maurois
I say to my children, the reason that marriage - and having children - is so important is that it stops you thinking about yourself. The way to happiness is to give yourself to others and to think of others before you think of yourself. Terry Wogan
I'm totally against straight marriage - even though I'm married. I don't think heterosexual marriage is any of the government's business. Penn Jillette
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up. Barbara Bush
My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way. NeNe Leakes
Marriage is a great institution. Elizabeth Taylor
I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great. Mary J. Blige
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. Samuel Richardson
The country is increasingly culturally conservative, with a small C. Every time marriage is on the ballot, it passes. People are increasingly pro-life. They don't like taxes. Kellyanne Conway
Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God's great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life! Russell M. Nelson
Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie. Denise Richards
At the end of the day, I know that I would rather be alone and occasionally lonely and unhappy than in a miserable marriage and lonely and unhappy all the time. I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it. Alana Stewart
Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right? Katherine Heigl
There is a difference between civil partnerships and marriage. That difference does not mean one is better than another. John Sentamu
For me, personally, marriage is a man and a woman living together. Angela Merkel
A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion. Lawrence M. Krauss
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. Ambrose Bierce
In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country. Colin Powell
There is great mystery in a church. For me, there is a great privilege to be confronted with the design of a church because it shelters the most powerful themes of humanity: birth, marriage, death. Mario Botta
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. Jane Austen
You can be in love and raise a family wonderfully by not being married, but actually, marriage does give us a strength, because it's quite hard to get out of, and so it makes us fight more to keep it together. If divorce becomes dead easy - which it sort of has - then we don't have that backup. Because, for everybody, relationships are hard. Jeremy Irons
We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration. Alain de Botton
When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage - in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments. Joseph B. Wirthlin
Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge. Bill Cosby
I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax? Jackie Kennedy
I definitely do not support a constitutional amendment that has to do with prohibiting gay marriage. Dina Titus
For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do. Al Goldstein
In terms of my involvement in 'don't ask, don't tell' and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools - these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans. Lady Gaga
I've never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple - gay or straight - should be able to get married. Al Franken
Marriage is a unique cultural relationship that has a long-standing tradition and societal meaning, which should not be redefined by the courts. James Lankford
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. Thornton Wilder
When it comes to discrimination, Americans pride ourselves on how far we've come. Racial segregation is history. Explicit sex discrimination is banned. Same-sex marriage is the law of the land. But amidst all the progress, the male-female wage gap persists, and it's big. Cass Sunstein
If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment. Sonia Sotomayor
I am not married anymore. I hate marriage... but it's okay now. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
I couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people. Simon Cowell
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. Hesiod
Compassion, not passion, keeps a marriage together. Betty Wright
When Stephen Harper was elected as the new Conservative Prime Minister - and he talked about repealing gay marriage and putting it to a vote in the House of Commons - Elton and I talked about getting married in Canada to make a statement, for ideological and political reasons. David Furnish
I support same-sex marriage. Anthony Foxx
You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage. Jeremy Sisto
My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father. Usher
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. Coretta Scott King
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest. H. L. Mencken
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. David Furnish
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. Jean Cocteau
Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it. Helen Rowland
Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over. Diane von Furstenberg
My characters always start well in movies. Almost every movie I've done starts with a happy marriage, it's all beautiful, wealthy, whatever... and then of course my husband leaves me, and everything falls apart. Carole Bouquet
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. Michel de Montaigne
If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow. Anna Held
As my friend said to me, when you have children, typically in a second marriage, when you're older and you get married again to a woman who would have children, you must always remember that you make sure the children attend a college where the commencement ceremonies are held in a facility with a wheelchair accessible ramp. Alec Baldwin
I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde. Hugh Hefner
Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch. Yoko Ono
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking. Marvin Gaye
On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on. Madonna Ciccone
I feel people naturally have a brightness. When that is extinguished by circumstances - be it a wrong marriage or a situation that you cannot leave psychologically - there's something about that dying spark that I'm drawn to playing. Vanessa Kirby
Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally. L. Ron Hubbard
To me, marriage is really important and what we build families on. That's why gay marriage is really important. Margaret Cho
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. Warren Farrell
I don't think it's more difficult for actors to have a good marriage than anyone. I think, in the end, a really important component of any relationship is honesty, and it also comes down to luck. Cate Blanchett
I think there was a time in my life, probably in college, that I wished every guy was gay because it meant more women for me! I don't know what everyone's problem with it is. I wish everyone was gay! That's always the way I thought about it. I have no issue with it. If I have to suffer through marriage, why shouldn't they? Donald Trump, Jr.
I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was never going to happen to me again. I made a brave step to walk out in a society when you didn't walk out of an abusive marriage. It was mental and physical abuse. Joyce Banda
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed. Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that's the position I take. Nick Jonas
You can't wake up one day and say 'I'm for gay marriage,' and wake up the next day and say 'I'm against it.' Wake up one day and say, 'I'm pro-choice,' and the next day wake up and say, 'I'm pro-life.' There's no credibility there. Roger Stone
Marriage does figure in my life, as I do want to have children. But I could also consider having children without getting married. The primary thing is having a good father, a partner who could be there with me through that journey. Jacqueline Fernandez
Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage. Zig Ziglar
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it. Lyndon B. Johnson
If the present Mrs. Wogan has a fault - and I must tread carefully here - if she has a fault, this gem in the diadem of womanhood is a hoarder. She never throws anything out. Which may explain the longevity of our marriage. Terry Wogan
Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want, abolish laws against homosexual conduct. That's how the change in a society occurs. Society doesn't change through a Constitution. Antonin Scalia
Everyone knows marriage is tough. Lindsey Vonn
The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding. Margaret Sanger
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. Oscar Wilde
Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that. Nick Cave
Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce. Roseanne Barr
What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? Angela Carter
Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true. Marianne Williamson
I enjoy being single, but I loved being married. Stephanie Mills
Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers. Richard Pryor
During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage. Conan O'Brien
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. Joseph Campbell
Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage. John le Carre
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. Ellen Key
There are going to be peaks and valleys in everything - in your marriage, in your job, in your life. So just enjoy the peaks and ride out the valleys. Just try not to do anything too rash. Ricky Schroder
The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it. Ann Bancroft
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. George Eliot
I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make. Isla Fisher
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. W. Somerset Maugham
In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I think people should be authentic and who they are. If that calls people to same-sex attraction and same-sex marriage, then they should be true to who they are, and I think that the world could benefit by more love. Chris Gibson
After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love. Monica Bellucci
Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare. Gary Johnson
There are lots of different ideas, lots of different opinions about the First Amendment Defense Act and what it should be. There were a lot of different forms of it while I was on the Hill. But I would say that I agree that the decision on gay marriage does mean that we need to take some steps to defend religious liberty. Evan McMullin
I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be. Joel Osteen
In Hungary, if homosexuals would like to live together, they can do so under the civil code. But what we call marriage is exclusively for one man and one woman. We are a Christian country. That's a historical fact. Viktor Orban
I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying. Barack Obama
With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught me patience. They've also taught me that I don't need to feel guilty about being happy. My emotional seasons are less extreme. Pete Wentz
The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, America could turn permanently blue. Ben Shapiro
When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage. Queen Victoria
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. Zsa Zsa Gabor
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. Charles Caleb Colton
We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time. Pope Francis
My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don't have one. Robert Kiyosaki
Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
You're not just going out there, maybe sacrificing your own life. There's also sacrifices still going on at home. You can serve in the military and have a good marriage, but you just need to be aware of it so you can take those steps to take care of it. Chris Kyle
The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework? Henry Louis Gates
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. Mae West
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner. Red Skelton
I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more. Marc Chagall
I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage. June Carter Cash
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. Robert Louis Stevenson
I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible. David Boreanaz
I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage. William Shatner
My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War. Mikhail Baryshnikov
I always like to say that our brand or our philosophy has always been kind of this marriage between the 'food as indulgence,' and it's also been about 'food as health,' that food is vitality. John Mackey
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. Friedrich Nietzsche
Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman. Randy Neugebauer
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. Ann Landers
We got Defense of Marriage Act as a federal law from President Bill Clinton. And it was passed with bipartisan support. Kellyanne Conway
The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage. Ezra Taft Benson
I think Liberty students ought to date a lot without commitment in mind. If you're thinking commitment - and you probably shouldn't until you're a senior - you don't want to start your marriage off under the constraints of poverty and schooling. Jerry Falwell
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. H. L. Mencken
I think that's what makes a successful marriage: a mindful sense of self and the ability to make clear choices to stay together or choices not to. Goldie Hawn
Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood. Ezra Taft Benson
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. Oscar Wilde
I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - my male friends in particular. And I started wondering if my wife, who was certainly my best friend, supplanted those relationships. Matthew Weiner
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. Billy Connolly
Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree. Richard Harris
I had been living in Ohio in my own house with my own life when my marriage abruptly came to an end. I had nowhere to go with my two sons, very little money, and not much to do in Ohio except be someone's ex-wife. My parents instantly and very generously invited my family to move back home to New York, where I could begin again. Isabel Gillies
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle. Jerry Falwell
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. Gloria Steinem
Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue. Malcolm Turnbull
I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers. Charlie Sheen
I think marriage works for some people, but I just don't think it could work for me. I don't see it. Romeo Santos
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. Imran Khan
Marriage is wonderful. Jennifer Aniston
I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out. Reese Witherspoon
My husband was adopted, and we had difficulty having both of my children, so we know the gift that life is. We do believe marriage is between a man and a woman. It's how you stand on that kind of thing or how you vote that really makes a difference. Nikki Haley
Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. Edmond About
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome. Jerry Seinfeld
Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other's strengths. Sheri L. Dew
It is a mistake for women to think that life begins only with marriage. A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do. James E. Faust
Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person. Sophia Bush
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. Jeremy Corbyn
I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage. Rob Delaney
I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight. Mark Ruffalo
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. Stephen Leacock
Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine; the groom, in this scenario, is nothing but a prop. Naomi Wolf
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know. Bette Davis
What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married. Alain de Botton
The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life. Jeffrey Kluger
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. Socrates
In my long life I have found peace, joy, and happiness beyond my fondest hopes and dreams. One of the supreme benedictions of my life has been my marriage to an elect daughter of God. I love her with all my heart and soul. James E. Faust
Marriage is marriage. Everybody has problems. Mel Gibson
Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion. Roger Wicker
Men are literally lying in bed with their wives when the marriage is essentially over, thinking, 'I've got to get the hell out of here', and have a fantasy woman in mind. Then you get divorced, meet a woman, marry her, and by the time all that goes by, you've aged a few years and are ready to go back to your ex-wife. Alec Baldwin
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. Jackie Kennedy
Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong? Jeffrey Kluger
Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief. Malcolm Turnbull
Gay rights are not primarily marriage rights, and for the millions who live in unaccepting places with no resources, dignity remains elusive. I am lucky to have forged meaning and built identity, but that's still a rare privilege. And gay people deserve more, collectively, than the crumbs of justice. Andrew Solomon
I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26. Jimmy Carr
Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all. Joyce Brothers
Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this. Henry Rollins
I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them. Rand Paul
Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway. Joey Adams
I swear Kim Kardashian's first marriage lasted longer than some of my iPhone chargers. Lilly Singh
She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over. David Gest
There are many deaf people who couldn't imagine living in a marriage without someone who doesn't speak their language. For me, I believe that hearing or deaf is fine as long as both parties are willing to communicate in each other's language. But if there's no communication, then the marriage, I believe, will be difficult if not doomed. Marlee Matlin
The storm and stress period of women and the new social and psychological formations thereby entailed must indeed extend far into the twentieth century. This period of conflict will cease only when woman within and out of marriage shall have received legal equality with man. Ellen Key
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him. Marilyn Monroe
Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions. Henry Rollins
Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California. Rick Perry
By the time I had reached the age of 16, in the 10th grade, my parents, after 22 years of marriage, one day decided to get a divorce. Frank Abagnale
I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the symptoms worse and everyone in the house paid the price. Mika Brzezinski
Marriage has made me safer. Kate Winslet
I made a very poor decision in my first marriage. I know God's forgiven me. Scott DesJarlais
Republicans need to stay strong on the fact that marriage is between a man and a woman. Those are values that are true to the party and true to who we are. They could focus on jobs and the economy, but we all know that keeping the family structure intact is very important in our country. Nikki Haley
A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life. Jim Samuels
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. Henny Youngman
She has been more than a mother than me - not much, but definitely more... She's been an unsolicited stylist, interior decorator and marriage counselor... Admittedly, I found it difficult to share my mother with her adoring fans, who treated her like she was part of their family. Carrie Fisher
In retrospect, I'm grateful for the break-up of my marriage because it forced me to deal with all the buried issues I probably wouldn't have otherwise faced. I'm a better, kinder, happier person today because of the spiritual and emotional growth I've experienced. Alana Stewart
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. Peter De Vries
But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together. Michael J. Fox
Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is. Annie Lennox
Supporting the definition of marriage as one man and one woman is not anti-gay: it is pro-traditional marriage. And if support for traditional marriage is bigotry, then Barack Obama was a bigot until just before the 2012 election. Marco Rubio
Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed. Laura Wasser
I definitely have a happy marriage and family life. Viola Davis
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. Robert Anderson
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I've heard that we come on earth in pairs, get separated only to meet once again through marriage. So whoever is there on this earth for me will eventually get paired with me. Till then, I'll enjoy my singlehood. Rani Mukerji
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen
Marriage is like a formality for me. David Copperfield
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. Alana Stewart
Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. Susan B. Anthony
Books and marriage go ill together. Moliere
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. Halle Berry
When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam. Ezra Taft Benson
Vivek is a very supportive man. If I am in the kitchen doing something, he comes and helps. I don't think marriage will change anything for us. Our careers will not be affected after marriage. He believes in gender equality and is a man of today's time. Divyanka Tripathi
It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it. Myles Munroe
There's so much fakeness in the fashion world, but Mum and Dad have always given us a good work ethic and were quite worried at first about whether I could make a living from acting. They've been together for 29 years and share the same values. I really do want to have that kind of marriage myself. Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? Groucho Marx
For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities. Dianne Feinstein
Marriage is the tomb of love. Giacomo Casanova
Obama is for same-sex marriage. If the president is saying that, then who am I to go the other way? Curtis Jackson
The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds. Gene Robinson
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. H. L. Mencken
I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman. Mitt Romney
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. Euripides
To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone. Alain de Botton
The institution of marriage works better when there's a spiritual connection. If you're marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective. A. R. Rahman
I have always maintained a strong opposition to marriage because I would have to be in serious denial to pretend I wasn't born with a personality for divorce. Whatever the opposite of amicable is, that's how my breakups tend to play out. Chelsea Handler
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it. Ben Carson
Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws. Germaine Greer
One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist. Rand Paul
Some of the best advice I got from a close friend is marriage is always looked at from the world as 50/50 as to working together to make that 100 percent. Brian Littrell
Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me you're playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us? Henry Rollins
I'm doing 'Rock of Ages' one day, making out with Russell Brand. Soon after that, I'm advocating with Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Cynthia Nixon for marriage equality. Alec Baldwin
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. Colin Powell
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. Henny Youngman
The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year. Hedy Lamarr
But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating. Linda McCartney
Even after marriage, our home is important for us. Mahesh Babu
Rooney was like marrying a high school sweetheart. And then you're like, 'I think we need some time to see other people,' and those other people are new musicians. Starsystem is like a new marriage with new musicians. Robert Coppola Schwartzman
Romantic love came under attack, first from the Freudians and then from the neuroscientists, who said that being in love was a chemical reaction in the brain. Marriage is no longer seen as a lifetime commitment. Jane Ridley
Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already. Linda Fiorentino
I am very proud to have kept my commitment to introduce the married couples' tax allowance. I think it will prove very popular. I think it's absolutely right that we recognise marriage in the tax system properly, and I would like to see that expanded. David Cameron
Marriage can be expensive, and if I lose millions then it'll be the best millions I've spent. Seth Rogen
Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have. Gordon B. Hinckley
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.' Archie Panjabi
Just going through a marriage and a divorce - which I essentially did by 21 - will give you an insane amount of perspective on life. Solange Knowles
My wife - I married my onscreen girlfriend from 'Growing Pains', Mike Seaver's girlfriend, and we've been married for 17 years - so marriage is very important to us. Kirk Cameron
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three. Washington Irving
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats. Marge Piercy
To see two couples that are battling to make it work just shows that love is in a marriage, but there are also trials and things that you have to make it through and showing women and men how to keep it spicy. Kyla Pratt
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. Bruce Forsyth
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. Michel de Montaigne
Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission. Meir Soloveichik
I have trouble with long-term things. I tend to get obsessed with stuff and then move on. Roles, songs, video games. That's why I was afraid of marriage. Because it was like a lifelong game of 'Madden.' Paul Rudd
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. Abraham Lincoln
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. P. J. O'Rourke
I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war. J. D. Vance
To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it? Karl Pilkington
By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fulness of glory. Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities, males and females each bring to a marriage relationship unique perspectives and experiences. David A. Bednar
It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself. Sylvester Stallone
Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage. Natasha Trethewey
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. Erma Bombeck
A good husband makes a good wife. John Florio
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. Josh Billings
A song like 'Once in a Lifetime' is inspired by my marriage - it's a good, life-changing happening in my life. I think when you find your once-in-a-lifetime love, that's what everybody's looking for. Keith Urban
When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education. Andie MacDowell
The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone. Theodore Zeldin
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. James Dobson
I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage. Jeff Bridges
I don't know if I believe in marriage - I believe in love. Romeo Santos
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued. Robert Graves
I married beneath me, all women do. Nancy Astor
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. Thomas Moore
I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right. Richard Pryor
A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost. John Burroughs
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did. Bette Davis
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. John Lyly
Marriage is an ongoing thing, man. You continue to work at it. But it's joyful. And joyous. I don't care if people are living without a marriage certificate. It's just about people, in some way, saying to each other, 'I commit to you. I will help you in this life.' James McAvoy
I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking. Teri Garr
I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president. Elizabeth Gilbert
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. Barbara De Angelis
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home. Elizabeth Edwards
You can block a marriage, but you cannot force a marriage. Emmanuel Macron
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. Honore de Balzac
Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us - the Supreme Court, President Obama - against traditional religion. Ben Shapiro
It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana's 'head and master rule,' that the husband was head and master of the house. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. St. Jerome
Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye. P. J. O'Rourke
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. Enid Bagnold
I think men are mainly unfaithful because as they get older, they feel the urge to prove to themselves that they are still attractive. They need proof from outside the marriage. It's really sad. It's all about them. It's not about their wives at all. Pattie Boyd
Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble. Mira Nair
There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded. Princess Diana
If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There's plenty of time for that after marriage. Zsa Zsa Gabor
A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be. Barbara Cartland
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. C. S. Lewis
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! Jacques Pepin
I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage. Keith O'Brien
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. Boris Pasternak
My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage. Kareena Kapoor Khan
My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend. Rodney Dangerfield
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. Steve Chabot
Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death. Jackie Kennedy
Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing. Robert Kiyosaki
Forever, it was just soccer - passion, life, love. Then I got married, and I had to transfer some of my energy. I want to be my best for my country, but I also made a really big promise and choice to be the best in my marriage. That has not always been the easiest thing to manage. Abby Wambach
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. Pope John Paul II
And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion. Mitt Romney
While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage. John Boehner
I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted. Bernadette Peters
I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce. Melissa Etheridge
I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people. Joel Osteen
I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved. Gary Chapman
Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance. Charlize Theron
Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thing in the world. Kelly Slater
My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself. Kim Kardashian
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. Benjamin Disraeli
By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority arms well every challenger to a state law restricting marriage to its traditional definition. Antonin Scalia
What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life. Tom Petty
I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it. Rose Kennedy
Of course I love being in love - but it is marriage that really fulfills me. But not in every case. Zsa Zsa Gabor
Until the courts put a stop to it, public debate over same-sex marriage displayed American democracy at its best. Individuals on both sides of the issue passionately, but respectfully, attempted to persuade their fellow citizens to accept their views. Antonin Scalia
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. Honore de Balzac
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. John Gay
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. Jean Rostand
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. Rita Rudner
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. Helen Rowland
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? Samuel Butler
When you see a merger between two giants in a declining industry, it can look like the financial version of a couple having a baby to save a marriage. Adam Davidson
In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms. Jeff Bridges
We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman. Ken Calvert
Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners. Rowan Williams
There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government, any government, thinks it has the ability to change the definition of an institution like marriage. Philip Hammond
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. Winston Churchill
Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people. Erica Jong
I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage. Stephen Harper
It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed. Carrie Underwood
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. Oscar Wilde
The Obama years will be remembered as a cultural - and legal - tipping point for equality for all people who do not identify as strictly heterosexual, arguably the civil rights movement of our times. The president signed the bill repealing 'don't ask, don't tell.' The Defense of Marriage Act was struck down by the Supreme Court. Charles M. Blow
I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed. Kirstie Alley
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. Hubert H. Humphrey
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage. Gertrude Stein
I think that with marriages, people have to understand that you have to look at your marriage and understand what is needed in your marriage - not what people think your marriage should be or what people want your marriage to be. Jada Pinkett Smith
When you genuinely feel like that was the right relationship, you're supposed to give it all you can. That's what marriage is about. Khloe Kardashian
Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided. John Wooden
Old white guys can be a funny bunch, can't they? The same anti-same-sex marriage, anti-affirmative action cadre can flower into the biggest supporters of 'equality' the minute they get a whiff of minority empowerment. John Ridley
In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you. Andy Garcia
I don't know about marriage as much as I do know that I'd be a great father. Tyler Perry
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them. Ogden Nash
Marriage isn't always cupcakes and Jesus juice, but it's important to show each other your marriage is a priority and that you still love them. Zoe Foster Blake
I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman. James Ellroy
The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens. Ted Cruz
What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir? Asif Ali Zardari
The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips. What is involved is love for the entire family that one is marrying into. Dada Vaswani
I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people. Kristin Chenoweth
Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids. Melina Kanakaredes
Before I go on selling the joy of working with your spouse, I should make something clear: Although we have a great marriage, it is as trying as anyone's. Christa Miller
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. Prince Philip
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. John Updike
There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies. Iyanla Vanzant
Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people. Pope Benedict XVI
It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age. Frances McDormand
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. Jamie Lee Curtis
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank. Jean de la Bruyere
Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children. Jonathan Haidt
You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process. Viggo Mortensen
Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement. Maggie Gallagher
By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us. Barbara Mandrell
I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work. Princess Diana
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. John Steinbeck
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. Martin Luther
Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so. Timothy Noah
I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me. Shia LaBeouf
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. Pink
My views are very fluctuating. I have very contradictory takes on the subject. Dating is easier, while marriage is hard work. You see your friends having early divorces, and on the other hand, you see your parents having a successful marriage. Kangana Ranaut
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. Sacha Guitry
My greatest concern is that Mitt Romney seldom addresses the social issues publicly... I'm referring to the sanctity of human life, the traditional definition of marriage, and religious liberty. James Dobson
I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred. Natalie Portman
I got my green card and everything through my work, even before marriage or anything like that, so you really have to follow the rules and do everything the right way to be able to accomplish that, so it was big... I had my green card for so long. Camila Alves
We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people. Pope Benedict XVI
We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage. Ted Cruz
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means. Henny Youngman
I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want? Max Schmeling
But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall. Anna Benson
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society. Jack Kingston
Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker. Mary Douglas
It's lovely being a parent and being in a strong marriage with somebody who is your best friend. Johnny Vegas
On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife. Rachel Swirsky
When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage. Kevin Hart
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. Miroslav Volf
First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment. Maximilian Schell
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.' Nancy Pearcey
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. Honore de Balzac
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. Sacha Guitry
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. Voltaire
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. Todd Tiahrt
There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage. Phil McGraw
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. Ann Landers
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. Hedy Lamarr
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. William Shakespeare
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. Herbert Spencer
I don't want to make any judgments, and I don't want to preach, but I'm hoping that marriage can work: that when people do fall in love, when people do find their soul mate, everyone sticks to it. It has the potential to be a very powerful thing, marriage. Jonathan Silverman
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. Michel de Montaigne
In general, everybody should admit the world is changing really fast, and it's hard for the conversations to keep up. I mean, it's hard to remember now, but when Barack Obama ran for president, he was against gay marriage. Bill Haslam
Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry. Rita Rudner
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms. Franz Kafka
My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family. Lisa Bonet
As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility. Dick Van Dyke
You have to continue to grow and evolve as individuals in order for your marriage to evolve. It takes two pillars to support a structure. If those two pillars become one, you have a structure that teeters. Tamara Tunie
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. Leonardo da Vinci
I want a happy marriage and whatever it takes to achieve that. But I think the main prerequisite would have to be respect. He would have to respect me and vice-versa. And, that would be more important than being in love. I think respect really goes a long way. And he would have to keep me happy. And he'd have to be very, very, secure. Shilpa Shetty
I learned to cook in self-defense. My wife doesn't know what a kitchen is. In the first month of our marriage, she broiled lamb chops 26 nights in a row. Then I took over. I used to mind her not caring about food, but no more - as long as I can eat what I want. Alan King
As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father 'giving' the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to 'obey' the groom. And that only covers the wedding. Jessica Valenti
My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way. Mitt Romney
The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore. Ian Mckellen
For someone to say that marriage is only about procreation is a joke. I didn't marry my husband to have children. I married my husband because I love my husband. Aisha Tyler
I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention. Linda McCartney
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. Iris Murdoch
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage. Sydney J. Harris
It is essential that God created men and women to be one, as it is said in the first chapters of the Bible. So I think even if our culture is against marriage as essential form of relations between human beings, between women and men. I think our nature is always present, and we can understand it if we will understand it. Pope Benedict XVI
I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage. Vidya Balan
My grandfather used to write one sentence every day in his journal: 'I love Anne more than ever today.' I think that was his meditation - keeping him in his marriage, and also his appreciation for it. It was very touching. Justin Theroux
American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them. Florence King
In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do. Earl Warren
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. Marilyn Monroe
A lasting relationship isn't about marriage. It's about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work. Goldie Hawn
Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right? Michelle Pfeiffer
What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child. Qandeel Baloch
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued. Helen Rowland
Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order. Elizabeth Gilbert
When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved. Gordon B. Hinckley
I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't. Diane Abbott
If we are going to realise our ambition of ending the harmful practices of FGM and forced marriage, the role of young people in pushing for change is crucial. We also need to ensure that everyone, from government to civil society, is playing their part. Theresa May
Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate. Joe Moore
To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham. Richard Dawkins
Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage. Kate Braverman
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting. Helen Rowland
My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds. Hugh Hefner
Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage? Rick Santorum
I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage. Sarah Jessica Parker
As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God's definition of marriage, between a man and a woman. Billy Graham
I've just concluded - since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people, and enjoys an attractive countenance - thus if it becomes necessary, I shall travel to Washington, D.C., get down on my knee, and ask his hand. Robert Mugabe
For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate. Aasif Mandvi
On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between two logical views of the universe: the Catholic-Christian and the Individualistic Monist. And bridges are made to go over, not to stand upon. Ellen Key
Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake. Elbert Hubbard
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten. Dick Gregory
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments. Maggie Gallagher
At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Sam Brownback
A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is, somebody owes somebody money. Goldie Hawn
My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that - well, my father's family came as Puritans to Massachusetts. Phil Jackson
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time. Julia Child
May these vows and this marriage be blessed. Rumi
'Revolutionary Road' is a fascinating study of the human condition of a fragmenting marriage and the torment that these two people put themselves through in their efforts to try and find happiness and try and stay together, actually. Kate Winslet
A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage. Chris Rock
A good marriage is different to a happy marriage. Debra Winger
My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman. Ben Carson
Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle. Lindsey Vonn
We're used to boy meets girl, boy likes girl, instant attraction on TV. But you throw a son in there, you throw a marriage in there, and you've got some really good character stuff. Matt Passmore
What sort of job can you hold in America in which it is safe to hold the personal conviction that same-sex marriage is wrong? The answer: there is no such job. Except Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. Then you're fine. Ben Shapiro
In Indonesia, where I am from, the Dutch-imposed Civil Code dating back to the colonial 1870s prevailed until the 1974 Law on Marriage granted married women greater rights, including the ability to open individual bank accounts. Sri Mulyani Indrawati
I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage. Sade Adu
I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do. Queen Latifah
It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass. Rodney Dangerfield
Academia is very flexible, but I had a spouse who was very committed to being a completely full partner in our marriage. I think if you counted up how many hours each one of us logged in, he certainly gets more than 50%. Janet Yellen
Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Like the marriage contract you entered into, your divorce is a legal transaction. Treat it that way. Try not to let emotion, hurt, fear or anger dictate the circumstances of your discussions or negotiations. Laura Wasser
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. Vera Brittain
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. Susan B. Anthony
I'll say this: The media wasn't invited to my marriage, and they're definitely not invited into the divorce. Ryan Reynolds
The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards. Samuel Adams
Marriage has always been a state and local issue. Rand Paul
I think what's dangerous about marriage is the way it can make you feel like you've got it all wrapped up. Like you're done: you've found your spouse, you've married him or her, and you don't need to think too much more about it. Ariel Levy
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. Andre Maurois
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. Iris Murdoch
I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard. Ethan Hawke
I married my husband because I loved him, and I don't feel like there's anybody missing from our marriage, but when you think about this person that you love, and you think about what a wonderful thing it would be to bring another person like that into this world, I think that's the hardest part about all of it. Aisha Tyler
What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness! Elizabeth Bibesco
I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages. John Mahoney
If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right. Simon Cowell
My father, a refugee from Eastern Europe, was preparing a fraudulent marriage to an American citizen as a route to this country when he was sponsored, making fraud unnecessary. My wife's grandfather bought papers from another Chinese villager to be able to come to the United States. Nicholas Kristof
My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her. Matt Damon
The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage. Maria Montessori
Marriage was never a destination with me. Diane von Furstenberg
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. Clint Eastwood
I am shamed to realize that in my marriage, my daughters never heard their father and me fight, which also meant, perhaps, that we didn't truly communicate. Sandra Tsing Loh
I am not into marriage. You look at all the marriages breaking down and all the people cheating on their marriages, and you become cynical. Marriage is nothing but a label. Nargis Fakhri
Many queer and trans people live - and lived - in our prison and jails, in our homeless shelters, in run-down houses and apartment buildings, and on the corners of every major city. Marriage equality doesn't help them; and the potential loss of momentum for trans/queer rights after this win could well hurt them. Chelsea Manning
Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own. Eddie Cantor
If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine. Shelley Long
I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage. Elizabeth Edwards
We live too long for one marriage. Yoko Ono
I do believe that God blessed me in life with a wonderful family, a successful career, and a loving marriage, and remain thankful for that blessing. Bonnie Tyler
What your beliefs are about anything creates your actions. What you believe about marriage creates the way you handle your marriage. What you believe about raising kids creates the way you do that. Dave Ramsey
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. Joseph Campbell
When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William's marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. 'Wet' is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin'. Snoop Dogg
Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage. Jimmy Dean
Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner. Candace Cameron Bure
Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke. Joyce Meyer
Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. George Will
I think Donald Trump's interpretation of marriage is something that he himself doesn't really believe in. 'Traditional marriage' is where two people love each other, commit to each other, care for each other over the years. It is a meaningful ceremony, and his interpretation of that is not recognizing what real marriage is. George Takei
I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much. Pat Travers
American liberals have become addicted to the courtroom, relying on judges and lawyers rather than elected leaders and the ballot box, as the primary means of effecting their social agenda on everything from gay marriage to assisted suicide to the use of vouchers for private-school education. Neil Gorsuch
I'm an advocate for gay marriage. I have more gay friends than Carter has pills. Patti Stanger
When you form a band, you form a real relationship that's like a marriage. It's an emotional connection, especially when you're young... because you don't know what's out there. Robert Coppola Schwartzman
I never even had a bachelorhood: I went straight from my parents' home to a marriage. Dick Van Dyke
I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily. J. Paul Getty
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother. Sam Levenson
I don't discriminate against any fans. Fans are fans, and gay men are great. I support gay marriage and the whole bit. I think everybody should be able to be with who they want to be with. Scott Eastwood
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles. Henry Ward Beecher
A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing to protect traditional marriages. Coretta Scott King
There's lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it's an inspiring rally point. Ty Burrell
If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure. Phil McGraw
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. Simone Signoret
There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage. Jill Scott
When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a 'good man' before they are all taken. Sheryl Sandberg
I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected. Billy Graham
Singles have a purpose that is higher than any earthly relationship. Marriage is honorable, but so is being single. Monica Johnson
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. Benjamin Franklin
Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth. Gary Vaynerchuk
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. Robert Louis Stevenson
I think marriage is all about timing. Cate Blanchett
The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family. Eminem
In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me. Caroline Kennedy
When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage. Rand Paul
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. Peter De Vries
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end. Alphonse Karr
I like the idea of marriage. I like the idea that I have a best friend. It's just really comforting. I remember being single and trying to date, and it was just stressful and hard. It wasn't fun. Armie Hammer
Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again! Karen Salmansohn
Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant. Loretta Lynn
It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others. Helen Rowland
Families are not merely constructs of outdated convention, and traditional marriage laws were not based on animosity toward homosexuals. Rather, I believe that the traditional family structure - centered on a lawful union between one man and one woman - comports with nature and with our Judeo-Christian moral tradition. Charles T. Canady
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. Gerald Brenan
If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is legal to enjoy the same economic advantages that federal laws now grant to straight couples? Or is it a 'conservative' ruling, limiting the federal government's ability to override state power? Jeff Greenfield
I've had marriage proposals, invitations to military balls and even a few prom offers from 18-year-old boys. Hope Solo
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. Honore de Balzac
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. Benjamin Franklin
In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship. Tim Allen
It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage. Garcelle Beauvais
For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in the air as our lives filled up and praying they wouldn't come crashing down on our heads. Willow Bay
I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public. Kareena Kapoor Khan
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. Andre Maurois
When you're so close to material, it would be as if you had come out of a bad marriage. You would be so close to it that you would be paying attention to detail that may not mean a whole lot for the reader. Tim O'Brien
Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages, whether it's living together, or being with six partners, or dedicating your life to taking care of flowers. Sandra Bullock
The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place. Sacha Guitry
I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific. Jeff Bridges
No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office. Rutherford B. Hayes
My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage - everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ. Lee Strobel
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. Alain de Botton
When I get married, it'll be no secret. Elvis Presley
For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end. Catherine Zeta-Jones
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. Carson Daly
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation. Mark Twain
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man. Henrik Ibsen
I do think your personal life has an impact on your tennis. If your private life is up and down, and you're thinking about what is going on back home, then you aren't solely focused on your job, but when things are good back home, it's so much easier when you're on court. It's not necessarily marriage; it's more having a stable relationship. Andy Murray
One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again. Judith Viorst
We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy. Joyce Meyer
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house. Jean Kerr
In the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality. Tsai Ing-wen
The fact that what we believe about marriage - that it should be between a man and a woman - and that we're pro-life, somehow that becomes radical? Why is that? It's because our culture has changed. But the truth is, culture may change, people change, but the Word of God never changes, and that's what we rest our belief system on. Robert Jeffress
To enter upon the marriage union is one of the most deeply important events of life. It cannot be too prayerfully treated. Our happiness, our usefulness, our living for God or for ourselves afterwards, are often most intimately connected with our choice. Therefore, in the most prayerful manner, this choice should be made. George Muller
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. Harold Nicolson
The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power. Ted Cruz
People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.' Jane Asher
Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity. Carla Bruni
It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards. John Lydon
Marriage is a blood sport. Marriage is jousting. It's disembowelment. It's just terrible, terrible visceral injuries. It's not for everybody. Aisha Tyler
To me, this is the perfect marriage. There's no friction. There's just, we have what they need, they have what we need. And so IBM is in the process, with our help, of designing many different apps for many different verticals. Tim Cook
When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity. Robert Anton Wilson
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. John C. Maxwell
My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art. J. Robert Oppenheimer
Marriage is a mistake every man should make. George Jessel
Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box. Jennifer Aniston
Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest. Yoko Ono
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. George Bernard Shaw
The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time. A. P. Herbert
If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does. Phil McGraw
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. Doris Lessing
We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage. Robin Morgan
I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it. Nas
There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage. Alexander Theroux
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. Samuel Butler
I like marriage. The idea. Toni Morrison
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. Alan King
I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance. Frank Carson
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Every girl should be married at least once in her life. It's a must. Because once you have been married, you are a Mrs., and even if the marriage doesn't work out, they can't take that away from you. Zsa Zsa Gabor
When a gently born spinster has little money, her choices are few. She might receive an offer of marriage, but it's unlikely to be from a wealthy man, so she'll have a hard life trying to make ends meet for her growing family. Jo Beverley
No persons professing to be Christians should enter the marriage relation until the matter has been carefully and prayerfully considered from an elevated standpoint, to see if God can be glorified by the union. Ellen G. White
Just as the unique characteristics of both males and females contribute to the completeness of a marriage relationship, so those same characteristics are vital to the rearing, nurturing, and teaching of children. David A. Bednar
I wanted to be the first girl in my class to get married. From the seventh grade on, I used to write in my yearbook under each senior's picture, 'married' or 'engaged.' I had marriage on the brain. Shirley Temple
If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice. Estelle Getty
Anyone who watched George W. and Karl Rove while the former was governor of Texas will recognize a familiar pattern. Like much of Bush's social policy - from faith-based social services to railing against gay marriage - women's issues are one of the bones they've decided they can throw to the Christian right. Molly Ivins
When someone comes up to me and says, 'Mary, you helped save my marriage', or, 'Mary, you helped me get out of this abusive relationship', I'm in it, really in their lives. And I'm so passionate about my feelings, but also about showing people the way through theirs. Mary J. Blige
Marriage is something I'd recommend everyone to try, if you find the right person, of course. Vidya Balan
I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society. Brigitte Bardot
Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot... I've seen all these marriages that failed. Those people are always hollering at each other. That doesn't work. Jim Harrison
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. Queen Victoria
New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture. Wendell Pierce
If a relationship is going wrong, if a marriage is going wrong, the answer cannot simply be to say, 'You can't afford to break up because you are going to lose the house.' The answer has to be only one thing, which is 'I love you.' Rory Stewart
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. Emma Goldman
It's nice to be able to work; I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it. Joan Cusack
Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, 'It is not good for a woman to live alone.' Anna Held
I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there's nothing wrong with it. Tia Mowry
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce
Of course I dream to have this perfect man who does not want to change me. And I'm so not marriage material, it's terrible. But my dream is to have those Sunday mornings, where you're eating breakfast and reading newspapers with somebody. Marina Abromovic
The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married. Finley Peter Dunne
I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It's not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I'll do it because it's a moment that will stick with me forever. Tim Allen
Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit. Cate Blanchett
Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom. Edmund White
Marriage is the hardest work you're ever going to do. Julie Andrews
Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day. Harry Connick, Jr.
When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place. Helen Gahagan
I like getting married, but I don't like being married. Don Adams
What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job. Barack Obama
I'm definitely willing to film it for sure. I feel like I've taken people on this incredible journey on 'Total Divas' and 'Total Bellas.' They have seen me cry, get angry, and be so many different ways about marriage. I feel like for my fan base, my Bella Army, I should let them tune in to my wedding. Nikki Bella
Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist. Masaharu Morimoto
All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. Raymond Hull
I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do. Marilyn Manson
With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal government be telling adults who love one another that they cannot get married simply because they happen to be gay? Lisa Murkowski
In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage. Vendela Kirsebom
The United States is in a time of transition. Courts have redefined marriage, and beliefs about human sexuality are changing. Will the right to dissent be protected? Will the right of Americans to speak and act in accord with what the United States had always believed about marriage - that it's a union of husband and wife - be tolerated? Edwin Meese
I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen. Tori Amos
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. Oscar Wilde
Marriage is something that needs to be worked on every day. I don't know if I'm the one to give marital advice since I've only been married for a little over a year, but marriage is certainly easier if you are open, trusting and loving. Emily Blunt
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. Alexander Pope
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. Joseph Joubert
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond. Thomas Love Peacock
But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean? Robert Downey, Jr.
Isn't that sort of what happened with gay marriage? Right before gay marriage was legalized, everybody was just losing their minds and, like, the worst possible things were happening, and it was just all like it couldn't get any worse, and then it suddenly got a lot better. Megan Mullally
Marriage is becoming sort of fake. It's almost like a handbag. Everybody wants the newest, greatest and latest. It becomes an event, and it's definitely a status symbol in our society. I'm not saying it shouldn't be; it absolutely should be - but you shouldn't be focusing on that. Rob Lowe
Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys. Camille Paglia
Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. Dora Russell
The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone. Dolly Parton
I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year. Bette Davis
This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? Azar Nafisi
But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous. Garret Dillahunt
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. John Updike
I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us. Kinky Friedman