| Author | Quote | Rank |
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| Martin Luther | Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.  | 101 |
| Pope John Paul II | 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. | 101 |
| Homer | 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. | 101 |
| Jackie Kennedy | 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? | 101 |
| Julia Child | 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. | 101 |
| Mae West | Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. | 101 |
| Michel de Montaigne | A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. | 101 |
| Alain de Botton | What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married. | 101 |
| Elizabeth Gilbert | 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. | 101 |
| Ellen Key | Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. | 101 |
| Foster Friess | If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe it's inappropriate, we should not demonize those people - if we really believe in religious liberty. | 101 |
| Franz Schubert | Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. | 101 |
| Harold Nicolson | The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. | 101 |
| Henny Youngman | 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. | 101 |
| Lee Strobel | My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage - everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ. | 101 |
| Miroslav Volf | 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. | 101 |
| Nancy Astor | I married beneath me, all women do. | 101 |
| Neil Simon | 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. | 101 |
| Nick Jonas | My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that's the position I take. | 101 |
| Olivia Wilde | The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy. | 101 |
| Reese Witherspoon | 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. | 101 |
| Terry Gilliam | They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing. | 101 |
| William O. Douglas | Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred. | 101 |
| Booth Tarkington | An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband. | 101 |
| Bruce Forsyth | 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. | 101 |
| Dalton Trumbo | A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not. | 101 |
| Emmanuelle Seigner | In France, I guess there's something like a tyranny in mentalities - we accept success badly, beauty, money. People are certainly envious, and this creates negative energy. This is annoying. I suffered a great deal at one time. I had to fight harder than others. Add to that my marriage to Polanski. | 101 |
| Francois Englert | I was born in Belgium on 6 November 1932. I am married to Mira Nikomarow and have five children: Michele, Anne, Georges, from a first marriage with Esther Dujardin, and Sarah, Helene from a second one with Danielle Vindal. | 101 |
| Garret Dillahunt | But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous. | 101 |
| Harold Ford, Jr. | I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth. | 101 |
| Joan Collins | Having had five husbands, I guess I should know a thing or two about marriage. | 101 |
| Johnny Vegas | It's lovely being a parent and being in a strong marriage with somebody who is your best friend. | 101 |
| Keith O'Brien | Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father. | 101 |
| Pattie Boyd | 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. | 101 |
| Pete Gallego | I have never been in favor of gay marriage, and I am not in favor of gay marriage. | 101 |
| Rory Stewart | 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.' | 101 |
| Sacha Guitry | When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. | 101 |
| Vera Brittain | 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. | 101 |
| Barbara Mandrell | 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. | 101 |
| Carson Daly | 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. | 101 |
| Henry Allingham | I had 53 years of happy marriage and two daughters. These were the best things that happened in my life. | 101 |
| Joanna Lumley | I was 21 and had been going out with my boyfriend for two years when I found out I was pregnant - despite being told by doctors that I was sterile. Jamie's father and I hadn't discussed marriage, and to me, it wasn't something to be entered into just to stop gossip. | 101 |
| John Ridley | 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. | 101 |
| Ken Mehlman | If you look at attitudes today and where they are headed, it's clear to me that supporting equal rights, including the rights to civil marriage, is a net positive for winning elections, as well as the right thing to do. | 101 |
| Kendrick Meek | It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed. | 101 |
| Rod Parsley | It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land. | 101 |
| Ted Olson | 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? | 101 |
| Tsai Ing-wen | 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. | 101 |
| Anita Shreve | 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. | 101 |
| Enid Bagnold | 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. | 101 |
| Gerald Brenan | In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. | 101 |
| Helen Gahagan | When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place. | 101 |
| Ken Calvert | 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. | 101 |
| Matt Salmon | I don't support gay marriage. I'm just not there, as far as believing in my heart that we should change 2,000 years of social policy in favor of a redefinition of the family. | 101 |
| Patricia Arquette | I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship. | 101 |
| Edmond About | Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. | 101 |
| Jack Kingston | Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature. | 101 |
| Jim Samuels | A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life. | 101 |
| Anna Benson | 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. | 101 |
| Connie Willis | I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia. | 101 |
| Don Adams | I like getting married, but I don't like being married. | 101 |
| Jon Tester | Montanans believe in the right to make a good life for their families. How they define a family should be their business and their business alone. I'm proud to support marriage equality because no one should be able to tell a Montanan or any American who they can love and who they can marry. | 101 |
| Mary Cheney | It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate. | 101 |
| Shaun Cassidy | I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it. | 101 |
| Simone Signoret | Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. | 101 |
| Beverley Nichols | Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. | 101 |
| John Florio | A good husband makes a good wife. | 101 |
| Maxine Kumin | That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do. | 101 |
| Adam Goldberg | Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words. | 101 |
| Dan T. Cathy | As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.' | 101 |
| Matt Passmore | 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. | 101 |
| Robert Anderson | 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. | 101 |
| Marcel Achard | It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early. | 101 |
| Melina Kanakaredes | Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids. | 101 |
| John Selden | Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people. | 101 |
| Jo Beverley | 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. | 101 |
| John Sandford | There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting. | 101 |
| Max Schmeling | I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want? | 101 |
| Millicent Carey McIntosh | There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you. | 101 |
| Jane Ridley | 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. | 101 |
| Jerry Weller | 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. | 101 |
| Joan Fontaine | Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird. | 101 |
| Jennifer Dunn | Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death. | 101 |
| Socrates | 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. | 102 |
| Martin Luther | There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. | 102 |
| Indra Nooyi | 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. | 102 |
| Amy Grant | 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. | 102 |
| Barbara De Angelis | 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. | 102 |
| Billy Connolly | Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. | 102 |
| Charlie Sheen | 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. | 102 |
| Coretta Scott King | 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. | 102 |
| Earl Warren | 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. | 102 |
| Henny Youngman | The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. | 102 |
| Ian Mckellen | 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. | 102 |
| Kathryn Lasky | I think Sacajawea was caught in a series of tragic situations - her kidnapping as a child, her being passed from tribe to tribe, being sold into marriage. However, I never thought of her as a tragic figure. I do not think she was a victim in the way we think of tragic figures. | 102 |
| Lawrence M. Krauss | 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. | 102 |
| Mignon McLaughlin | A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. | 102 |
| Myles Munroe | It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it. | 102 |
| Olivia Williams | My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one. | 102 |
| Pete Wentz | 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. | 102 |
| Seamus Heaney | 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. | 102 |
| Vanessa Kerry | I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country. | 102 |
| Brooke Elliott | I think a lot of times we're so told in our world that marriage is everything, and having a partner is everything. If you look at our movies and things, it's all directed around that love, and if you don't have that love, how sad you are. | 102 |
| Catherine Zeta-Jones | For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end. | 102 |
| Dada Vaswani | Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship. | 102 |
| Donald Johanson | When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit. | 102 |
| James Dobson | Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. | 102 |
| Jim Wallis | The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue. | 102 |
| Kim Alexis | I did not have a personal relationship with Jesus until I met my nanny, who helped me through a failing marriage and raising my two boys in a New York City apartment. She showed me by example what it was like to be able to talk to Jesus and bring all my cares and worries to Him. That was in 1990. | 102 |
| Larry Kramer | I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community. | 102 |
| Liz Smith | The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great. | 102 |
| Mickey Rooney | I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern. | 102 |
| Cass Sunstein | I think that every state in the union should recognize same-sex marriage. | 102 |
| Dax Shepard | I think I'm a combination of very simple pleasures and the fact I've read a lot of books. I don't think it's a binary opposition across the board in humans and I think I'm an example that it's not. I'm hosting gay marriage rallies and I have tons of guns at home. There's a lot of middle ground in the world and I'm one of those people. | 102 |
| Garcelle Beauvais | 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. | 102 |
| Ken Mehlman | The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesn't believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people. | 102 |
| Kenneth G. Wilson | My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage. | 102 |
| Margaret Sanger | 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. | 102 |
| Michelle Pfeiffer | Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right? | 102 |
| Prince Philip | When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. | 102 |
| Samantha Shannon | I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman, and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager, and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings, one from my mom's marriage and three from my dad's marriage, so we are kind of scattered. | 102 |
| Sydney Smith | 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. | 102 |
| Todd Tiahrt | 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. | 102 |
| Catherine Helen Spence | I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both. | 102 |
| Matthew Weiner | 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. | 102 |
| Stephanie Mills | I enjoy being single, but I loved being married. | 102 |
| Anita Ekberg | The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably. | 102 |
| Ariel Gore | Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone. | 102 |
| Bob Casey, Jr. | I don't support gay marriage, but I also don't support a constitutional amendment banning it. However, I do support same sex unions that would give gay couples all the rights, privileges and protections of marriage. | 102 |
| Dora Russell | Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. | 102 |
| Eddie Cantor | A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers. | 102 |
| Estelle Getty | If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice. | 102 |
| Gary Chapman | 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. | 102 |
| Tichina Arnold | I call myself taking control of a situation, but sometimes you really have to learn to humble yourself and to submit yourself. I'm not really good with submission, so that's the part of marriage and relationships that I've found very hard to deal with. | 102 |
| Burt Reynolds | Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done. | 102 |
| Rosamunde Pilcher | People today expect too much from marriage. Getting married is really like taking on a big new job. | 102 |
| Salvatore J. Cordileone | The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology. | 102 |
| David Jeremiah | 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. | 102 |
| Jasper Carrott | I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfaction in life is difficult. Maybe being happy is as simple as not being unhappy. | 102 |
| Jeremy Sisto | You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage. | 102 |
| Amy Levy | We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God. | 102 |
| Juan Antonio Samaranch | Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture. | 102 |
| Jonathan Silverman | 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. | 102 |
| Ann Landers | Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. | 103 |
| Frank Carson | I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance. | 103 |
| Herman Cain | I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act. | 103 |
| Honore de Balzac | One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. | 103 |
| Isla Fisher | I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make. | 103 |
| Joe Rogan | Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends. | 103 |
| Kyle Chandler | I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage. | 103 |
| Mary Karr | 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. | 103 |
| Mel Gibson | 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. | 103 |
| Mignon McLaughlin | 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. | 103 |
| Robert Dallek | Whatever the long-term legal prospects for same-sex marriage, President Obama's willingness to put the matter front and center in an election year can at least make him a candidate for inclusion in Kennedy's Profiles in Courage. | 103 |
| Sarah Jessica Parker | 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. | 103 |
| St. Jerome | Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. | 103 |
| Stephen Leacock | Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. | 103 |
| Tim Johnson | After lengthy consideration, my views have evolved sufficiently to support marriage equality legislation. This position doesn't require any religious denomination to alter any of its tenets; it simply forbids government from discrimination regarding who can marry whom. | 103 |
| Bill Frist | 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. | 103 |
| Boris Pasternak | Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. | 103 |
| Carnie Wilson | 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. | 103 |
| Chelsea Handler | 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. | 103 |
| David Steinberg | I used to have a theory actually that, if you've had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of money in the bank, you're going to make a lousy comedian. | 103 |
| Donald Trump, Jr. | 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? | 103 |
| Gene Robinson | 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. | 103 |
| Irwin Corey | Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. | 103 |
| Keith O'Brien | Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense. | 103 |
| Laura Wasser | The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy. | 103 |
| Neil Strauss | While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them. | 103 |
| Paul Martin | 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. | 103 |
| Phil Spector | Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. | 103 |
| Sacha Guitry | An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. | 103 |
| Adam Davidson | 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. | 103 |
| Alana Stewart | 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. | 103 |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne | Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives. | 103 |
| Christopher Hampton | To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious? | 103 |
| Greta Scacchi | I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage. | 103 |
| Linda Fiorentino | Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already. | 103 |
| Richard Armour | 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. | 103 |
| Scott Anderson | The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered over the church in the early 1840s, after rumors spread that its founder, Joseph Smith, had taken up the practice of polygamy. While denying the charge in public, by 1843 Smith had shared a revelation with his closest disciples. | 103 |
| Ashley Judd | I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids. | 103 |
| Carla Bruni | Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity. | 103 |
| Lawrence Bender | I am not married yet, but I think ultimately in a good marriage it is the relationship which is the most important thing. It is not a matter of who is right and who is wrong; it is a one plus one equals more than two. | 103 |
| Marvin Gaye | Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking. | 103 |
| Princess Margaret | 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. | 103 |
| Richard G. Scott | There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage. | 103 |
| Tim Huelskamp | Marriage can be tough. It really is. But God is calling you to do everything you can. It's just not you and your spouse. There's a third person in your marriage. And God would like to bless and protect that marriage, and give you many fruitful days ahead. | 103 |
| Tracy Pollan | Michael and I had great role models. Though his father has passed away, his parents had an amazingly strong marriage, as do mine. Both weathered really tough times. For us it has been normal to stay together through difficulties. We grew up witnessing that firsthand. | 103 |
| Eddie Cantor | Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own. | 103 |
| George Jessel | Marriage is a mistake every man should make. | 103 |
| John Naisbitt | 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. | 103 |
| Scott Fujita | 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? | 103 |
| Amanda Holden | I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage. | 103 |
| Mark Leibovich | If you look at issues like immigration, gay marriage, gun regulation - these are all things that probably wouldn't be a source of much discussion at all in D.C., if they weren't sources of self-perpetuation. | 103 |
| James Ellroy | 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. | 103 |
| Jenna Elfman | I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television. | 103 |
| Joey Adams | A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. | 103 |
| Marge Piercy | Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats. | 103 |
| Richard Harris | 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. | 103 |
| Rick Wright | Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation. | 103 |
| Joe Murray | Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. | 103 |
| Raymond Hull | All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. | 103 |
| Judy Biggert | No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages. | 103 |
| Julie London | I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone. | 103 |
| Milton Sapirstein | The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction. | 103 |
| Jane Harrison | Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning. | 103 |
| Gloria Steinem | I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. | 104 |
| Frances Conroy | Marriage is an exercise in torture. | 104 |
| Hedy Lamarr | 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. | 104 |
| Kinky Friedman | I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us. | 104 |
| Linda Evans | I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing. | 104 |
| Loretta Lynn | 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. | 104 |
| Mel Gibson | Marriage is marriage. Everybody has problems. | 104 |
| Ogden Nash | Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them. | 104 |
| Tony Campolo | I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us. | 104 |
| Vicki Baum | Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. | 104 |
| Vidya Balan | I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage. | 104 |
| Zsa Zsa Gabor | A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. | 104 |
| Arlie Russell Hochschild | 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. | 104 |
| James Dobson | I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them. | 104 |
| Robin Morgan | We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage. | 104 |
| Sandra Lee | I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength. | 104 |
| Sri Mulyani Indrawati | 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. | 104 |
| Sumner Redstone | Sometimes divorce is better than marriage. | 104 |
| Aasif Mandvi | 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. | 104 |
| Mario Cantone | Our black president can't say that he's for gay marriage. That is upsetting to me. | 104 |
| Michael Enzi | If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family. | 104 |
| Rani Mukerji | Marriage happens; it can't be planned. When it has to happen, it will happen. Normally, what we always believe is that however prepared you are, if it's not meant to happen, it won't. And however much we have not planned, it will still happen if it's destined. | 104 |
| Shane Filan | When you realise that money doesn't actually make you happy, it's a quick fix to have things you've always wanted, but then when you have it, you realise that's not what actually makes you happy. It's more about having a great marriage and happy children; that's what life's all about. | 104 |
| Ted Olson | The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution. | 104 |
| Willow Bay | 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. | 104 |
| Andrew Sullivan | When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary. | 104 |
| Brigitte Nielsen | All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it. | 104 |
| Kay Robertson | One of the great tragedies I see is people not putting every effort into the foundation of their marriage. My grandmother told me that it's one man and one woman for life and that your marriage is worth fighting for. | 104 |
| Maximilian Schell | First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment. | 104 |
| Thomas Love Peacock | Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond. | 104 |
| Jack Kingston | Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children. | 104 |
| Riteish Deshmukh | It's such a lovely feeling to be in love, to marry the person you love and finally to be with that person. I feel the romance should never go out of any marriage. Even after one has had kids, etc. Love never ends, na? | 104 |
| Dodie Smith | There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means. | 104 |
| Jason Sudeikis | Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go. | 104 |
| Jessi Klein | I find it extremely ironic that Bush says that personal opinion should not be a tool in the interpretation of the Constitution, when he's the one who's lobbying for a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. If that doesn't stem from personal opinion, I don't know what does. | 104 |
| Mary McCormack | I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness. | 104 |
| Jasmine Guy | 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. | 104 |
| Alexander Theroux | There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage. | 104 |
| Jared Polis | Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today. | 104 |
| Jenna McCarthy | 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. | 104 |
| John Sentamu | There is a difference between civil partnerships and marriage. That difference does not mean one is better than another. | 104 |
| Barack Obama | 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. | 105 |
| W. H. Auden | 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. | 105 |
| Carrie Underwood | It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed. | 105 |
| Finley Peter Dunne | The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married. | 105 |
| Glenn Greenwald | I've praised Obama's record on same-sex equality as enthusiastically as anyone: it's one area where his record has been impressive. I understand, and have expressed, the emotional importance for LGBT Americans of his marriage announcement as well as its political significance. | 105 |
| Harry Connick, Jr. | Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day. | 105 |
| Hesiod | Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. | 105 |
| Imtiaz Ali | I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world. | 105 |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it. | 105 |
| Johnny Carson | Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die. | 105 |
| Kirk Cameron | 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. | 105 |
| Lisa Marie Presley | I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare. | 105 |
| Nate Berkus | 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. | 105 |
| Nikki Haley | 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. | 105 |
| Pearl S. Buck | A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. | 105 |
| Pierce Brosnan | 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. | 105 |
| Ratan Tata | I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place. | 105 |
| Red Skelton | All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner. | 105 |
| Rita Rudner | Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry. | 105 |
| Rick Perry | 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. | 105 |
| Zoe Lister-Jones | We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage. | 105 |
| Debra Winger | A good marriage is different to a happy marriage. | 105 |
| George Carey | 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. | 105 |
| Howard Stringer | Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage? | 105 |
| Jeff Miller | The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience. | 105 |
| Laura Kightlinger | I guess I just feel bad that I'm still going on bad dates when I should really be in a bad marriage by now. | 105 |
| Leslie Mann | They say that when a woman wants to end a relationship, she cuts off all of her hair. I've done that twice in my marriage but am still married. | 105 |
| Luanne Rice | '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. | 105 |
| Menander | Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil. | 105 |
| Portia de Rossi | I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been. | 105 |
| Roger Stone | 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. | 105 |
| Rory Bremner | I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage. | 105 |
| Taya Kyle | 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. | 105 |
| Theodore Zeldin | The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things. | 105 |
| Cass McCombs | Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead. | 105 |
| Dave Gahan | I really believe that the more distractions and fixes I remove from my life, the better I'll feel about myself. The biggest of those is Depeche Mode. It's the one marriage that survived, but I'm not sure it works - for me, anyway. Jumping on a plane to go somewhere else and be told how wonderful I am doesn't feel good any more. | 105 |
| David Boreanaz | I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible. | 105 |
| Eleonora Duse | The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most. | 105 |
| Jesse Tyler Ferguson | Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don't want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don't think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority. | 105 |
| Kay Hagan | Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should ever have to conduct a marriage that is inconsistent with their religious beliefs. But I think as a civil institution, this issue's time has come and we need to move forward. | 105 |
| Lauren Groff | Marriage seems to be predicated on protecting a very deep and intimate form of mystery. | 105 |
| Shilpa Shetty | 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. | 105 |
| Sinbad | We all want something else other than what we have and don't realize what you got works. It works. It does work. You gotta work. Marriage is work. Marriage is a career. It's not an adventure. | 105 |
| Toni Braxton | In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them. | 105 |
| Anthony Storr | If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears. | 105 |
| Azar Nafisi | 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? | 105 |
| Candace Cameron Bure | 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. | 105 |
| Jacques Pepin | 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! | 105 |
| James Brolin | The fact is, I am in my third marriage and I do not believe in divorce. But I was half the problem, I guarantee you. More than half the problem. I couldn't negotiate with the other women. | 105 |
| Al Goldstein | 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. | 105 |
| Bede Griffiths | I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage. | 105 |
| Jack Kingston | Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society. | 105 |
| Judith Viorst | 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. | 105 |
| Michael Bergin | I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom. | 105 |
| Steve Garvey | I did commit adultery, if adultery is having a relationship in a marriage with another woman. I learned from that. | 105 |
| Susan Faludi | A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship. | 105 |
| Arsenio Hall | I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally. | 105 |
| Jean Kerr | 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. | 105 |
| John Sentamu | If the rights of civil partners are met differently in law to those of married couples, there is no discrimination in law, and if civil partnerships are seen as somehow 'second class' that is a social attitude which will change and cannot, in any case, be turned around by redefining the law of marriage. | 105 |
| Gloria Steinem | 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. | 106 |
| Alec Baldwin | 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. | 106 |
| Brigitte Bardot | Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras? | 106 |
| Caroline Kennedy | 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. | 106 |
| Francis Spufford | In a hundred years, Christianity will have mutated into something utterly unpredictable which, nevertheless, we'd recognize immediately. And same-sex marriage will be one of the fine old God-given traditions that conservatives leap to defend. | 106 |
| Helen Rowland | A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. | 106 |
| Henry Louis Gates | 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? | 106 |
| Honore de Balzac | The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. | 106 |
| Isadora Duncan | Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. | 106 |
| Lewis Grizzard | Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house. | 106 |
| Prince William | We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that. | 106 |
| Queen Victoria | 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. | 106 |
| Robert Dallek | Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights. | 106 |
| Warren Beatty | Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius. | 106 |
| Warren Farrell | When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. | 106 |
| Andre Maurois | A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. | 106 |
| Ann Romney | I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer. | 106 |
| Anthony Foxx | I support same-sex marriage. | 106 |
| Carl Honore | Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse. | 106 |
| Cheech Marin | My marriage was breaking up, and my marriage with Chong was breaking up. I had to come back and kind of start on my own again. | 106 |
| Deborah Moggach | 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. | 106 |
| Faith Evans | 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. | 106 |
| Herbert Samuel | It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure. | 106 |
| James Dobson | I would like to thank those who spoke boldly against the 'gay marriage float' in the 2014 Rose Parade. Apparently, that vigorous opposition came from perhaps millions of people, and it had a significant influence on how the matter was handled on network and cable television. | 106 |
| Jean Rostand | Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. | 106 |
| Keith O'Brien | I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage. | 106 |
| Malcolm Turnbull | 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. | 106 |
| Mika Brzezinski | 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. | 106 |
| Paul Martin | The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so. | 106 |
| Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt | I am not married anymore. I hate marriage... but it's okay now. | 106 |
| Guy de Maupassant | It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both. | 106 |
| Jennifer Garner | I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage. | 106 |
| Kendrick Meek | Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families. | 106 |
| Penn Badgley | For a while I didn't believe in marriage. But I think I do believe in having a love. I'm not saying only one love ever, but in having a good, solid relationship. I think that's possible. | 106 |
| Stuart Rose | 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. | 106 |
| Rachel Joyce | We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it. | 106 |
| Seth Green | I firmly believe in marriage. It's a real important decision that takes a lot of dedication and time. If you're thinking about divorce. You shouldn't get married. | 106 |
| Shane Koyczan | Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley. | 106 |
| Stockwell Day | Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional. | 106 |
| Barbara Cartland | 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. | 106 |
| Jennifer Jason Leigh | I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do. | 106 |
| John Lyly | Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. | 106 |
| Roger Wicker | 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. | 106 |
| A. P. Herbert | The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time. | 106 |
| John Gay | The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. | 106 |
| John Sentamu | Would we be a better society if we made marriage simply a private contract between two individuals, with no wider implications of kinship and family? I do not believe that we would. | 106 |
| Alan King | 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. | 107 |
| Ben Shapiro | 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. | 107 |
| Brad Paisley | There may be people in my audience who may not agree with me on some particular issue - you know, say, as a gun owner, they may not agree with me, or, you know, someone may not agree with me on a gay marriage topic. Any of those things. But those shouldn't be the reasons you listen to my music. | 107 |
| Candace Bushnell | My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like. | 107 |
| Dick Gregory | Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten. | 107 |
| Edmund White | Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting. | 107 |
| Florence King | 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. | 107 |
| George Gobel | College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. | 107 |
| Gus Van Sant | Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay. | 107 |
| Helen Rowland | In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued. | 107 |
| Honore de Balzac | Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. | 107 |
| L. Ron Hubbard | 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. | 107 |
| Ogden Nash | To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up. | 107 |
| Tony Dorsett | Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life. | 107 |
| William Congreve | Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. | 107 |
| Andre Maurois | A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. | 107 |
| Jeffrey Kluger | 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? | 107 |
| Joni Eareckson Tada | 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. | 107 |
| Joyce Brothers | Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all. | 107 |
| Kabir Bedi | Whether people choose to have same sex relationships or relationships outside the marriage - whatever happens between two consenting adults should be purely their business, not the state's or the society's. | 107 |
| Kajol | 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. | 107 |
| Keith O'Brien | No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage. | 107 |
| Pat Benatar | It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along. | 107 |
| Phyllis McGinley | Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. | 107 |
| Pope Shenouda III | Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature. | 107 |
| Richard LaGravenese | Every marriage is weird! That's what it is - we just all need to start embracing the fact that there is no normal. | 107 |
| Ricky Schroder | 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. | 107 |
| Sacha Guitry | The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place. | 107 |
| Mary Wesley | People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier. | 107 |
| Michael Ian Black | I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.' | 107 |
| Patsy Kensit | Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve. | 107 |
| Suzanne Brockmann | Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you. | 107 |
| Andy Garcia | 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. | 107 |
| Joan Cusack | 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. | 107 |
| Malaika Arora Khan | 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. | 107 |
| Randy Neugebauer | Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman. | 107 |
| Jenna Fischer | You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time. | 107 |
| Maggie Gallagher | Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement. | 107 |
| Scott Fujita | For some of my friends who raise personal objections to marriage equality, they still recognize the importance of being accepting. And many of them also recognize that regardless of what they choose to believe or practice at home or at their church, that doesn't give them the right to discriminate. | 107 |
| Alan Keyes | 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. | 107 |
| Joey Adams | Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway. | 107 |
| Julie Christie | I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure. | 107 |
| Ava Gardner | I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two. | 107 |
| Jackie Kennedy | 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. | 108 |
| Jerry Seinfeld | 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. | 108 |
| Michel de Montaigne | If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. | 108 |
| Ashton Kutcher | As marriage goes, I think most people sort of set being - you know getting married as the goal as opposed to being married. | 108 |
| Bonnie Tyler | 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. | 108 |
| Curtis Jackson | Obama is for same-sex marriage. If the president is saying that, then who am I to go the other way? | 108 |
| Diane von Furstenberg | Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over. | 108 |
| Dick Morris | Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it. | 108 |
| Edwin Louis Cole | Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth. | 108 |
| Gary Johnson | 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. | 108 |
| Gordon B. Hinckley | 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. | 108 |
| Marlee Matlin | 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. | 108 |
| Nicolas Chamfort | Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. | 108 |
| Omar Khayyam | 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. | 108 |
| Paul Bloom | 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. | 108 |
| Rita Rudner | I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. | 108 |
| Timbaland | Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home. | 108 |
| Tom Petty | 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. | 108 |
| Wanda Sykes | The government shouldn't be involved in this because it's very simple. If you don't believe in same-sex marriage, then don't marry somebody of the same sex. | 108 |
| Adam McKay | The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia. | 108 |
| Camila Alves | I respect marriage, and I think it's beautiful that people do it. But for me, more important than anything is having a peaceful life and a peaceful home. | 108 |
| David Gest | She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over. | 108 |
| Eva Gabor | Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once. | 108 |
| Garrett Hedlund | 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.' | 108 |
| Kitty Kelley | Gay marriage has jumped out of the closet on to the front page. Everyone from the president of the U.S. to retired four-star general Colin Powell is embracing the issue, now supported by most Americans. Still, a few people, like former First Lady Laura Bush appear to be conflicted. | 108 |
| Linda McCartney | 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. | 108 |
| Rick Santorum | 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. | 108 |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich | A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage. | 108 |
| Abraham Verghese | 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. | 108 |
| Jon Anderson | I've got a great life. I'm in love, I have a happy, wonderful, beautiful time with my marriage, and I have a beautiful home. I want to spend time here working and creating. | 108 |
| Kelly Brook | I've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I'd like to have children; marriage I have a bit of an issue with. | 108 |
| Stephen Harper | 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. | 108 |
| James Lafferty | The whole Haley-Nathan marriage deal was a pretty good twist huh? I hope we got all of you with it. That particular story line even suprised me when I read it, it's a good one and it'll provide for some good stories to come. | 108 |
| Jeffrey Eugenides | Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people. | 108 |
| Maureen Dowd | Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn't realize is that legalizing gay marriage is like electing a black president. Before you do it, it seems inconceivable. Once it's done, you can't remember what all the fuss was about. | 108 |
| Steve Winwood | A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems. | 108 |
| Alan Autry | I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights. | 108 |
| Ali Larter | 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.' | 108 |
| Douglas William Jerrold | Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass. | 108 |
| Jack Kingston | So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment. | 108 |
| Robert Burton | One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague. | 108 |
| Doug Stanhope | The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society. | 108 |
| Shonda Rhimes | I've learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are. | 108 |
| Benjamin Spock | 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. | 109 |
| Bob Newhart | 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. | 109 |
| Cher | Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended. | 109 |
| Dianne Feinstein | 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. | 109 |
| Elizabeth Edwards | It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home. | 109 |
| Elizabeth Taylor | Marriage is a great institution. | 109 |
| Gail Collins | 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. | 109 |
| Gloria Vanderbilt | I believe in marriage and fidelity. | 109 |
| Hugh Hefner | 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. | 109 |
| Karen DeCrow | Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners. | 109 |
| Natasha Trethewey | 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. | 109 |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office. | 109 |
| Tia Mowry | 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. | 109 |
| Glenn Turner | I met my wife in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years. That's a great old term, 'courting.' And we had to do it quietly, of course, because you would know the difficulties one might have with Indian parents. She was advised by her father that people in the West don't take marriage seriously. | 109 |
| John Boehner | And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way. | 109 |
| Ann Bancroft | The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it. | 109 |
| Anthony Weiner | 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. | 109 |
| Bernadette Peters | I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted. | 109 |
| Bill Shuster | President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage. | 109 |
| David Mixner | Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing the issue of marriage equality to the forefront of our struggle for civil rights. He is a courageous pioneer who has been relentless in this battle for marriage equality. | 109 |
| John Ridley | The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done such a marvelous job of debasing marriage on their own all these many years. | 109 |
| Mark Udall | I support allowing gay couples to marry because of - not in spite of - my values. And many of those values are the same ones deeply held by those who do not believe in gay marriage. | 109 |
| Meir Soloveichik | Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission. | 109 |
| Peter Criss | I finally got a chance to talk to my daughter from my previous marriage. I just got married May 3 to my beautiful wife, but we don't see each other much. | 109 |
| Robert Graves | Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued. | 109 |
| Allan Sherman | Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage. | 109 |
| Jane Asher | People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.' | 109 |
| Joe Klein | I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about the Clintons' marriage than you do. | 109 |
| Masaharu Morimoto | 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. | 109 |
| Judith Wright | Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth. | 109 |
| Jane Austen | It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. | 110 |
| Alphonse Karr | Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end. | 110 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. | 110 |
| Bob Newhart | I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage. | 110 |
| Giacomo Casanova | Marriage is the tomb of love. | 110 |
| Jerry Falwell | 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. | 110 |
| Jimmy Dean | Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage. | 110 |
| Margaret Cho | To me, marriage is really important and what we build families on. That's why gay marriage is really important. | 110 |
| Oliver Goldsmith | All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little. | 110 |
| Dada Vaswani | 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. | 110 |
| Jason Mraz | 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. | 110 |
| Kristin Chenoweth | I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people. | 110 |
| Marc Chagall | 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. | 110 |
| Michele Bachmann | I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law. | 110 |
| Mickey Rooney | Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day. | 110 |
| Rachel Cusk | The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity. | 110 |
| Rick Santorum | Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage? | 110 |
| David Boreanaz | In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you. | 110 |
| Ezra Cornell | I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race. | 110 |
| Rose McGowan | I think gay marriage should be the national law. | 110 |
| Sherwin B. Nuland | I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage. To use the word 'bad' would be perhaps the understatement of the year. It was dreadful. | 110 |
| Jack Kingston | Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights. | 110 |
| Woody Allen | Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. | 111 |
| Jackie Kennedy | The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. | 111 |
| Alfred Russel Wallace | What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters. | 111 |
| Angela Carter | What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? | 111 |
| Barbara Ehrenreich | Marriage is socialism among two people. | 111 |
| Bette Davis | 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. | 111 |
| Doris Lessing | I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. | 111 |
| Francis Picabia | God invented concubinage, satan marriage. | 111 |
| Gary Johnson | 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. | 111 |
| Herbert Spencer | Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'. | 111 |
| Joseph Joubert | Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. | 111 |
| Kate Adie | I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage. | 111 |
| Nick Cave | 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. | 111 |
| Peter De Vries | The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. | 111 |
| Queen Victoria | A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. | 111 |
| Rose Kennedy | I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it. | 111 |
| Aisha Tyler | Marriage isn't a carnival ride. | 111 |
| Ayelet Waldman | During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning. | 111 |
| Jimmy Carr | 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. | 111 |
| Rachel Cusk | What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things. | 111 |
| Tori Spelling | I'm all for same-sex marriage. | 111 |
| Ariel Pink | I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was defined as between one man and one woman. It was anti-polygamy, in effect saying no man can hoard his women. | 111 |
| Carole Bouquet | 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. | 111 |
| Philip Hammond | 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. | 111 |
| Rani Mukerji | 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. | 111 |
| Sam Ewing | Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career. | 111 |
| Marc Webb | I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them. | 111 |
| James Carville | I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one. | 111 |
| H. L. Mencken | Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. | 112 |
| Marilyn Monroe | 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. | 112 |
| George Eliot | Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. | 112 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | 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. | 112 |
| Princess Diana | There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded. | 112 |
| Iris Murdoch | 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. | 112 |
| Iyanla Vanzant | 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. | 112 |
| Alanis Morissette | I was so ready to become a mom. Actually, I was ready secondarily to become a mom. I was so ready to have the intimacy and commitment of marriage. | 112 |
| Barbara Bush | I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up. | 112 |
| Ben Shapiro | 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. | 112 |
| Ellen Key | The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. | 112 |
| Halle Berry | 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. | 112 |
| Ken Ham | The doctrine of marriage depends on Genesis being true. If there's an absolute authority, and if God's the Creator, He made one man and one woman. Jesus came and said that marriage is between a man and woman. If Genesis is not true, we're just animals, and marriage is just whatever you want to make it to be. | 112 |
| Megyn Kelly | Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage. | 112 |
| Monica Bellucci | 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. | 112 |
| Pearl S. Buck | Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. | 112 |
| Sonia Sotomayor | 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. | 112 |
| Ted Cruz | 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. | 112 |
| Tommy Cooper | Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience! | 112 |
| Vir Das | Anybody with a sharp brain and a mic can become a comedian, but there's a need to move beyond it. The audience wants to witness the marriage of theatre, comedy and something more. | 112 |
| Ernest Istook | Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America. | 112 |
| Joanna Lumley | 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. | 112 |
| Timothy Murphy | Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped. | 112 |
| June Carter Cash | 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. | 112 |
| Sam Brownback | 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. | 112 |
| Stockwell Day | Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage. | 112 |
| Joseph Barbera | My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned. | 112 |
| Marilyn Monroe | 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. | 113 |
| Gary Vaynerchuk | 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. | 113 |
| Joseph Campbell | When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. | 113 |
| Rumi | May these vows and this marriage be blessed. | 113 |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | 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. | 113 |
| Barbara De Angelis | 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. | 113 |
| Halle Berry | I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage. | 113 |
| Helen Mirren | The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership. | 113 |
| Marina Abramovic | 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. | 113 |
| Michael Douglas | During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life. | 113 |
| Penelope Cruz | I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children. | 113 |
| Raquel Welch | We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise. | 113 |
| Rowan Williams | 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. | 113 |
| Tim Allen | 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. | 113 |
| Ann Romney | In marriage, it's always that give and take and rebalancing that we have to do in how we can help each other. But, I have been known at times by my sons, that is the name that they call me-the Mitt stabilizer. | 113 |
| Dan Savage | Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage. | 113 |
| Giuliana Rancic | I never thought my marriage could be stronger, or I could be closer to Bill. We prayed on our own, but now we prayed together and you'll never know how much that means until you do it. | 113 |
| Helen Reddy | Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it. | 113 |
| James Dobson | 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. | 113 |
| Mike Nichols | I am drawn to the mystery of marriage. You can never know what the contract is between two people, and that is a very strong subject. I think it may be my subject. | 113 |
| Patti Stanger | I'm an advocate for gay marriage. I have more gay friends than Carter has pills. | 113 |
| Ranbir Kapoor | I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages. | 113 |
| Samuel Richardson | 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. | 113 |
| Jacqueline Bisset | Marriage has just never interested me. | 113 |
| Jean Giraudoux | Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. | 113 |
| Jim DeMint | Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now. | 113 |
| Marie Osmond | When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned. | 113 |
| Steve Chabot | 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. | 113 |
| James Lafferty | Although we hardly see each other off the set, Joy and I get along well when we do. As far as the marriage between Nathan and Haley, I think they are young and will see the reality of the situation eventually. | 113 |
| Maggie Gallagher | Same-sex marriage is not the future. | 113 |
| H. Jackson Brown, Jr. | Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning. | 114 |
| Michel de Montaigne | Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. | 114 |
| Alan King | If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. | 114 |
| Alveda King | People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death. | 114 |
| Francoise Sagan | Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance. | 114 |
| Ginger Rogers | I yearned for a long, happy marriage with one person. | 114 |
| Ingrid Bergman | Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough. | 114 |
| Mark Ruffalo | 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. | 114 |
| Nadia Comaneci | My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment. | 114 |
| Pope Benedict XVI | 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. | 114 |
| Thomas Moore | 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. | 114 |
| Dada Vaswani | 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. | 114 |
| Donny Osmond | I believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon, we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard, if you make it work, it's blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn't working can be painful. | 114 |
| Joyce Brothers | Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash. | 114 |
| Matt Damon | My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her. | 114 |
| Rick Santorum | Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships. | 114 |
| Suzi Quatro | Even though my first marriage broke up, I'd say that I've had two good marriages and two good men. I've been very lucky. I like to think it's karma because, in a relationship, I give 300 per cent. I'm straight with my men, and I like to think it comes back. | 114 |
| Anna Held | 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.' | 114 |
| Kelly Slater | Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thing in the world. | 114 |
| Stockwell Day | Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on. | 114 |
| Jimmy Swaggart | I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman. | 114 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | 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. | 115 |
| Alan King | Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers. | 115 |
| Ann Landers | 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. | 115 |
| Brendan Behan | Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. | 115 |
| Catherine Deneuve | I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce. | 115 |
| Charlize Theron | Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance. | 115 |
| Henny Youngman | 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. | 115 |
| J. Paul Getty | Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there. | 115 |
| Jean Cocteau | Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. | 115 |
| Josh Billings | Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. | 115 |
| Kellan Lutz | I love the idea of marriage. I definitely want marriage and little Kellans running around. | 115 |
| Mark McKinnon | You know, Republicans should have a consistent philosophy. And if your philosophy is about limited government and not intruding in people's lives, you shouldn't just inconveniently take a social issue like gay marriage and say, 'Well, unless we think - actually we should be intruding your life.' | 115 |
| Mike Birbiglia | 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. | 115 |
| R. Kelly | They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me. | 115 |
| Sam Levenson | If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother. | 115 |
| Spike Milligan | It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't. | 115 |
| A. R. Rahman | 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. | 115 |
| Dan Savage | The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity. | 115 |
| Jeremy Taylor | Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself. | 115 |
| Jon Meacham | The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord. | 115 |
| Lynn Johnston | I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage. | 115 |
| Malcolm Turnbull | 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. | 115 |
| Margaret Cavendish | Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit. | 115 |
| Nadine Velazquez | Whatever's missing in your relationship, including a marriage, is what you're not bringing to it. | 115 |
| Carol Vorderman | My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby. | 115 |
| Stockwell Day | My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected. | 115 |
| Jeff Greenfield | 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? | 115 |
| Meg Ryan | It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain. | 115 |
| Max Frisch | Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug. | 115 |
| John Bradshaw | In my family, as in all dysfunctional families, instead of parents who act as strong and nurturing role models for their children, you get these needy people who use their children. I was the kid who tried to take on the marriage. | 115 |
| Rainer Maria Rilke | More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed. | 116 |
| Bette Davis | Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did. | 116 |
| Christopher Lee | The secret to a long marriage in the film industry? Marry someone wonderful, as I did. And always have her come along on location. | 116 |
| Elizabeth Edwards | I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage. | 116 |
| Frank Bruno | I still believe in marriage. | 116 |
| Honore de Balzac | A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. | 116 |
| Johnny Carson | If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. | 116 |
| Joseph B. Wirthlin | 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. | 116 |
| Ken Ham | There's a slippery slope in regard to authority. If you say that the history in Genesis is not true, then you can just take man's ideas as true. When you go outside of Scripture, why shouldn't you just reinterpret what marriage means? So our emphasis is on the slippery slope regarding authority. | 116 |
| Madonna Ciccone | 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. | 116 |
| Nancy Pearcey | We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.' | 116 |
| Noah Feldman | Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community. | 116 |
| Sheri L. Dew | 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. | 116 |
| Sophia Bush | Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person. | 116 |
| Sydney J. Harris | 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. | 116 |
| William Shatner | I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage. | 116 |
| Harriet Martineau | 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. | 116 |
| John le Carre | 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. | 116 |
| Karan Johar | Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own. | 116 |
| Julia Ward Howe | Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature. | 116 |
| Kevin Hart | 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.' | 117 |
| Elbert Hubbard | Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake. | 117 |
| Chris Kyle | 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. | 117 |
| David A. Bednar | 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. | 117 |
| David Copperfield | Marriage is like a formality for me. | 117 |
| Edmund White | If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else. | 117 |
| Gisele Bundchen | When I'm weak, you can be strong; when I'm strong, you can be weak. That's what I believe marriage is. | 117 |
| Henrik Ibsen | Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man. | 117 |
| Kirk Cameron | 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. | 117 |
| Michael J. Fox | 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. | 117 |
| Mitt Romney | 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. | 117 |
| Niecy Nash | Although my marriage left me with three beautiful children, it also left me with a healthy dose of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and an extreme desire to be loved again. I was operating on empty, expecting to be paid in full. | 117 |
| Richard Pryor | Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers. | 117 |
| Jeremy Taylor | He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows. | 117 |
| John le Carre | 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. | 117 |
| Keith Urban | 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. | 117 |
| Tony Kushner | The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it absolutely should be decided by the Supreme Court as quickly as possible. It's a 14th Amendment issue. There's no argument about it. | 117 |
| Jesse Tyler Ferguson | As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it. | 117 |
| James McGreevey | Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection. | 117 |
| Robert Mugabe | 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. | 118 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. | 118 |
| Andrew Cuomo | Marriage equality changed life for people. | 118 |
| Dennis Miller | Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash? | 118 |
| Edmund White | 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. | 118 |
| Gary Numan | I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the right girl, the life I had before - being single, in a band, girls everywhere - would be over. | 118 |
| Hubert H. Humphrey | 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. | 118 |
| Lauren Bacall | 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. | 118 |
| Lilly Singh | I swear Kim Kardashian's first marriage lasted longer than some of my iPhone chargers. | 118 |
| Peter De Vries | 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. | 118 |
| Tim O'Brien | 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. | 118 |
| Mike Myers | Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death. | 118 |
| Rashida Jones | I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy. | 118 |
| Groucho Marx | Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. | 119 |
| Camille Paglia | 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. | 119 |
| Denis Diderot | 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. | 119 |
| Dennis Miller | Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch. | 119 |
| Emma Goldman | 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. | 119 |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability. | 119 |
| Greg Boyle | 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.' | 119 |
| John Updike | Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. | 119 |
| Peter De Vries | The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. | 119 |
| Robin Wright | You have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a strong foundation of love. | 119 |
| Jessica Savitch | In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent. | 119 |
| Toni Morrison | I like marriage. The idea. | 120 |
| Snoop Dogg | 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'. | 120 |
| Amy Grant | The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes. | 120 |
| Brad Paisley | When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise. | 120 |
| Drew Barrymore | Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage. | 120 |
| Faith Hill | Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over. | 120 |
| George Muller | 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. | 120 |
| John Updike | The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. | 120 |
| Marlo Thomas | In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time. | 120 |
| Myles Munroe | 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. | 120 |
| Nancy Gibbs | The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before. | 120 |
| Shakira | The truth is that I'm more afraid of marriage than of death. | 120 |
| Zsa Zsa Gabor | Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. | 120 |
| Maeve Binchy | I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky. | 120 |
| Rick Santorum | I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot. | 120 |
| Edmund White | Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom. | 121 |
| Frans de Waal | I was raised Catholic. Not just a little bit Catholic, like my wife, Catherine. When she was young, many Catholics in France already barely went to church, except for the big three: baptism, marriage, and funeral. And only the middle one was by choice. | 121 |
| Kirk Cameron | Do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't. | 121 |
| Martin Seligman | 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. | 121 |
| Thornton Wilder | Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. | 121 |
| William Penn | 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. | 121 |
| Jeb Bush | Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned. | 121 |
| Jessica Valenti | My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy. | 121 |
| Antonin Scalia | 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. | 122 |
| Elizabeth Edwards | 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. | 122 |
| Hedy Lamarr | 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. | 122 |
| Helen Rowland | A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting. | 122 |
| Hugh Hefner | 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. | 122 |
| J. Paul Getty | A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement. | 122 |
| Mikhail Baryshnikov | My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War. | 122 |
| James Dobson | If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist. | 122 |
| John Boehner | 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. | 122 |
| Jesse Tyler Ferguson | The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia. | 122 |
| Mark Udall | When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner 'til death do you part.' | 122 |
| Jessica Valenti | 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. | 122 |
| John C. Maxwell | 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. | 123 |
| Keith Richards | I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage. | 123 |
| Jamie Lee Curtis | 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. | 123 |
| Adam Levine | I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody. | 123 |
| Cory Booker | Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right. | 123 |
| Evangeline Lilly | I have an American son and an American partner, so marriage might logistically make sense at one point. My partner is a stay-at-home father, so if he wants to be on my health plan, or tax wise, or maybe on paper we want to have our I's dotted and our T's crossed, but emotionally, neither of us really feels the need for it. | 123 |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. | 123 |
| Gary Bauer | 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. | 123 |
| Marco Rubio | 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. | 123 |
| Robert Kiyosaki | Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing. | 123 |
| William Hazlitt | 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! | 123 |
| Daphne Guinness | A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities. | 123 |
| Stacy Schiff | For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier. | 123 |
| Erma Bombeck | 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. | 124 |
| Aishwarya Rai Bachchan | 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. | 124 |
| Andrew Cuomo | I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality. | 124 |
| E. W. Howe | Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising. | 124 |
| Gary Johnson | I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches. | 124 |
| Hesiod | 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. | 124 |
| Jean de la Bruyere | Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank. | 124 |
| Jerry Falwell | Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law. | 124 |
| Tim Allen | In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship. | 124 |
| Tony Campolo | But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government. | 124 |
| Andre Maurois | A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. | 124 |
| Malcolm Turnbull | 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? | 124 |
| Sonam Kapoor | I'd like to have a successful marriage, not for the sake of labelling or branding, but because I believe in the institution of marriage. | 124 |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman. | 125 |
| Joseph Campbell | 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. | 125 |
| Alain de Botton | 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. | 125 |
| Gary Bauer | Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and a woman. | 125 |
| Gordon B. Hinckley | 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. | 125 |
| Manny Pacquiao | I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God. | 125 |
| Ethan Hawke | 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. | 125 |
| John Boehner | Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family. | 125 |
| Socrates | As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. | 126 |
| Henry Ward Beecher | Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles. | 126 |
| Maria Montessori | The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage. | 126 |
| Henny Youngman | She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face. | 126 |
| Navjot Singh Sidhu | After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful. | 126 |
| Norman Mailer | 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. | 126 |
| Dan Savage | Most Americans don't care about gay marriage. | 126 |
| Joan Collins | I am a fan of marriage and a fan of being committed to the right person. | 126 |
| Martin O'Malley | 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. | 126 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. | 201 |
| Clint Eastwood | There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. | 201 |
| Kim Kardashian | 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. | 201 |
| Anna Quindlen | 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. | 201 |
| Anne Hathaway | You have to want to be married to someone. You have to feel that reciprocated. Marriage for marriage's sake doesn't make any sense to me, and I found someone with whom I could put my money where my mouth is, I guess. | 201 |
| Bob Newhart | 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. | 201 |
| Helen Rowland | 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. | 201 |
| J. B. Priestley | Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes. | 201 |
| J. C. Watts | In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing. | 201 |
| Suresh Raina | I had a girlfriend when I was 17-18, and when she was 21, she wanted us to get married. I couldn't do that, because my game was my priority. We had to part ways, and there was no guilt because I had never committed to marriage. | 201 |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton | Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. | 202 |
| Zig Ziglar | Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage. | 202 |
| Kyle Chandler | I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage. | 202 |
| Moliere | Love is often the fruit of marriage. | 202 |
| Ringo Starr | And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned. | 202 |
| Patti Stanger | On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying, 'Let's date.' Everyone knows those aren't the same things. | 202 |
| Sarah McLachlan | Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. | 202 |
| Sean Penn | Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time. | 202 |
| Jane Smiley | In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known. | 202 |
| John Ridley | 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. | 202 |
| Katharine Hepburn | If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. | 203 |
| Iris Murdoch | 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. | 203 |
| John Steinbeck | A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. | 203 |
| Anne Morrow Lindbergh | How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone. | 203 |
| Catherine Deneuve | Marriage is obsolete and a trap. | 203 |
| Faith Hill | 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. | 203 |
| Ian Mckellen | 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. | 203 |
| Naomi Wolf | 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. | 203 |
| Tori Amos | A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh. | 203 |
| Amy Grant | I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye. | 204 |
| Ben Shapiro | 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. | 204 |
| Elizabeth Gilbert | 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. | 204 |
| Gene Simmons | The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage. | 204 |
| Helen Rowland | Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty. | 204 |
| Rita Rudner | I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. | 204 |
| Simon Cowell | I couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people. | 204 |
| Tony Campolo | Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state. | 204 |
| Roseanne Barr | Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce. | 204 |
| Suzi Quatro | There comes a crossroads in every marriage where you grow together or grow apart. I outgrew Len. He wanted me to be in that leather jumpsuit for the rest of my life and do nothing else. He constrained me. It got to a point where the marriage died or I did. | 204 |
| Pope Francis | 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. | 205 |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue. | 205 |
| Kyle Chandler | My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together, as a team. | 205 |
| Tony Abbott | I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don't know that they can be recognised as marriage. | 205 |
| Anna Held | If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow. | 205 |
| Phil McGraw | 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. | 206 |
| Joel Osteen | I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people. | 206 |
| Hugh Jackman | 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. | 206 |
| John Burroughs | A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost. | 206 |
| Kyle Chandler | Marriage is hard work, period. | 206 |
| Max Lucado | 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. | 206 |
| James Taylor | Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand. | 206 |
| Rick Santorum | When I say things like 'Marriage should be between one man and one woman,' I'm called a bigot. | 206 |
| Stephen Harper | I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage. | 206 |
| Barack Obama | 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. | 207 |
| Audrey Hepburn | If I get married, I want to be very married. | 207 |
| Colin Powell | 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. | 207 |
| Ellen DeGeneres | 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. | 207 |
| Rodney Dangerfield | My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend. | 207 |
| Charles Caleb Colton | Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. | 207 |
| Elizabeth Gilbert | Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order. | 207 |
| Herbert Spencer | Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. | 207 |
| Tony Abbott | I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage. | 207 |
| Sherri Shepherd | I'd love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, 'How do you make your marriage work?' I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He's this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor. | 207 |
| George Bernard Shaw | 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. | 208 |
| Katharine Hepburn | Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about. | 208 |
| Jane Austen | It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. | 208 |
| Elizabeth Gilbert | 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. | 208 |
| Lindsay Lohan | Marriage is a big deal, but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for a minute? | 208 |
| Martin Freeman | Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything. | 208 |
| Melissa Etheridge | I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce. | 208 |
| Groucho Marx | Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? | 209 |
| H. Jackson Brown, Jr. | Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture. | 209 |
| Princess Diana | I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work. | 209 |
| Conan O'Brien | 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. | 209 |
| Erica Jong | 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. | 209 |
| Hugh Hefner | 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. | 209 |
| Gwen Stefani | A miracle... my biggest accomplishment is my marriage so far. Because it's hard, everyone knows it's hard. | 209 |
| Martin O'Malley | Doing difficult things like passing marriage equality, passing the Dream Act, doing common sense things that allow new American immigrants to fully participate, pay their taxes, play by the rules and take care of their families. That's the inclusive America that I believe all of us want to move to. | 209 |
| Colin Powell | 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. | 210 |
| Phil McGraw | 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. | 210 |
| David A. Bednar | 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. | 210 |
| Ryan Reynolds | I'll say this: The media wasn't invited to my marriage, and they're definitely not invited into the divorce. | 210 |
| Martin O'Malley | I believe marriage is a human right, not a state right. | 210 |
| Michele Bachmann | I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008. | 210 |
| Nikola Tesla | 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. | 211 |
| Jane Austen | Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. | 211 |
| Annie Lennox | Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is. | 211 |
| Germaine Greer | 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. | 212 |
| Helen Rowland | Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it. | 212 |
| Yoko Ono | 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. | 212 |
| C. S. Lewis | There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. | 213 |
| Selena Gomez | 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. | 213 |
| Charlie Sheen | 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. | 213 |
| Chris Rock | A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage. | 213 |
| Helen Rowland | 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. | 213 |
| Jennifer Aniston | 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. | 213 |
| Viggo Mortensen | 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. | 213 |
| Winston Churchill | My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. | 214 |
| John Wooden | 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. | 214 |
| Pope Francis | 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. | 214 |
| Adam Lambert | Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage. | 214 |
| Gene Simmons | Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it. | 214 |
| Rita Rudner | In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. | 214 |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. | 214 |
| Beth Ditto | 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. | 215 |
| James E. Faust | 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. | 215 |
| Jeff Bridges | Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man. | 215 |
| Richard Pryor | I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right. | 215 |
| Yoko Ono | Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest. | 215 |
| Elvis Presley | When I get married, it'll be no secret. | 216 |
| Iyanla Vanzant | 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. | 216 |
| David Byrne | It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix. | 216 |
| David Cameron | 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. | 216 |
| Washington Irving | Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three. | 216 |
| Ellen DeGeneres | 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. | 217 |
| Helen Rowland | Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. | 217 |
| Tony Campolo | President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people? | 217 |
| Claire Danes | I like marriage. I feel very secure. It helps when you are in love with the person you are married to. | 218 |
| Rodney Dangerfield | We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together. | 219 |
| Bill Cosby | The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods. | 219 |
| Hillary Clinton | I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships. | 220 |
| Phil McGraw | 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. | 220 |
| Rumi | May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise. | 220 |
| Soren Kierkegaard | Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. | 220 |
| J. Paul Getty | 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. | 220 |
| Kyle Chandler | My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. | 220 |
| Sheryl Sandberg | 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. | 220 |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | 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. | 221 |
| Mary J. Blige | 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. | 221 |
| Pink | 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. | 221 |
| Rodney Dangerfield | It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass. | 222 |
| Robert Downey, Jr. | 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? | 222 |
| Ron Paul | Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty. | 222 |
| Jeffrey Kluger | 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. | 222 |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. | 223 |
| Alanis Morissette | I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children. | 223 |
| Jack Nicholson | 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. | 223 |
| Katy Perry | 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. | 223 |
| Robert Kiyosaki | 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. | 223 |
| Steve Carell | I had a friend who, after 25 years of marriage, found himself trying to date again, and it was completely different. Everything had changed, and he had to reacquaint himself. It was funny even talking to him about it. For someone who has been out of the loop, it's a different world. | 223 |
| Iyanla Vanzant | 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. | 224 |
| Gerard Way | I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked. | 224 |
| Jada Pinkett Smith | 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. | 224 |
| Natalie Portman | 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. | 224 |
| Sandra Bullock | 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. | 224 |
| Dennis Prager | 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. | 225 |
| Al Franken | 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. | 225 |
| Ellie Goulding | The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone. | 225 |
| Robbie Williams | There aren't many great adverts for marriage or parenthood. It always looks so stressful, and that's what I've been scared of. What you don't realise is how much you're going to get back. | 225 |
| H. L. Mencken | 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. | 226 |
| Oscar Wilde | The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. | 226 |
| Euripides | It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. | 226 |
| David A. Bednar | 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. | 226 |
| Gloria Steinem | A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. | 302 |
| Bono | Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously. | 302 |
| Gertrude Stein | What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage. | 302 |
| Hope Solo | I've had marriage proposals, invitations to military balls and even a few prom offers from 18-year-old boys. | 302 |
| Ellen G. White | 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. | 303 |
| Jim Carrey | 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. | 303 |
| Cate Blanchett | 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. | 304 |
| Mitt Romney | 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. | 304 |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police. | 305 |
| Nas | I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it. | 306 |
| Henry Rollins | 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? | 307 |
| Gary Johnson | I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman. | 307 |
| Franz Kafka | Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms. | 309 |
| H. L. Mencken | Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest. | 310 |
| Karl Pilkington | 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? | 310 |
| Mae West | He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of. | 310 |
| Samuel Johnson | Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. | 311 |
| Tori Amos | I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen. | 312 |
| Abraham Lincoln | Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. | 313 |
| Erma Bombeck | Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. | 314 |
| Isabel Allende | 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. | 314 |
| Benjamin Disraeli | No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. | 316 |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. | 316 |
| Oscar Wilde | One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. | 317 |
| Henry Rollins | 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. | 317 |
| Michel de Montaigne | Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance. | 317 |
| Dolly Parton | The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone. | 318 |
| Mark Twain | Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation. | 319 |
| George W. Bush | I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman. | 319 |
| Lady Gaga | Gay marriage is going to happen. It must. | 320 |
| Voltaire | Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. | 321 |
| Eminem | 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. | 321 |
| Woody Allen | Marriage is the death of hope. | 321 |
| Shia LaBeouf | I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me. | 323 |
| Benjamin Franklin | Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. | 324 |
| Bertrand Russell | Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. | 326 |
| Ezra Taft Benson | 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. | 326 |
| Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song. | 326 |
| Benjamin Franklin | Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. | 403 |
| Alanis Morissette | I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second. | 404 |
| Mitt Romney | 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. | 405 |
| Samuel Butler | Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? | 405 |
| H. L. Mencken | Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution? | 407 |
| Ted Cruz | There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage. | 408 |
| William Shakespeare | Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. | 409 |
| Ted Cruz | We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage. | 409 |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. | 410 |
| Louis C. K. | 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. | 412 |
| Bill Cosby | Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge. | 414 |
| Marianne Williamson | Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true. | 414 |
| George W. Bush | Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. | 415 |
| Marianne Williamson | 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. | 415 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | 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. | 418 |
| H. L. Mencken | Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. | 419 |
| George Eliot | Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. | 419 |
| Alexander Pope | They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. | 419 |
| Sylvester Stallone | 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. | 419 |
| Billy Graham | The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman. | 421 |
| Marilyn Manson | Marriage changes everything. | 421 |
| George Bernard Shaw | There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. | 425 |
| George Bernard Shaw | Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. | 426 |
| Ezra Taft Benson | The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage. | 426 |
| Hillary Clinton | Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility? | 501 |
| Joseph B. Wirthlin | The sweet companionship of eternal marriage is one of the greatest blessings God has granted to His children. | 501 |
| John Lydon | 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. | 507 |
| Oscar Wilde | How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. | 508 |
| Mitt Romney | 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. | 509 |
| Oscar Wilde | There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. | 510 |
| Barack Obama | 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. | 516 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | 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. | 516 |
| Barack Obama | I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right. | 517 |
| Barack Obama | 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. | 518 |
| Joel Osteen | I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be. | 520 |
| Richard Dawkins | To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham. | 525 |
| Hillary Clinton | Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it. | 609 |
| Voltaire | Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient. | 614 |
| Marilyn Monroe | Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men. | 709 |
| Benjamin Franklin | Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. | 813 |
| Joyce Meyer | 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. | 814 |
| George Bernard Shaw | Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us. | 909 |
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