Marriage Quotes

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

‘A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.’ – Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

‘Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?’ – Groucho Marx

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

‘It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.’ – Jackie Kennedy

‘Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.’ – Andre Maurois

‘Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.’ – Benjamin Franklin

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

‘There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.’ – Homer

‘Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.’ – Martin Luther

‘The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.’ – Henny Youngman

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

‘Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton

‘Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.’ – Princess Diana

‘A good husband makes a good wife.’ – John Florio

‘Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.’ – Billy Connolly

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

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

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

‘If I get married, I want to be very married.’ – Audrey Hepburn

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

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

‘When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.’ – Prince Philip

‘If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.’ – Katharine Hepburn

‘When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.’ – Joseph Campbell

‘Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.’ – John Lyly

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

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

‘Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.’ – St. Jerome

‘Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.’ – Erma Bombeck

‘Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.’ – Johnny Carson

‘In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.’ – Gerald Brenan

‘Marriage should be a duet – when one sings, the other claps.’ – Joe Murray

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

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

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

‘Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.’ – Ambrose Bierce

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

‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.’ – Jane Austen

‘All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.’ – Red Skelton

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

‘An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.’ – Booth Tarkington

‘Marriage is a great institution.’ – Elizabeth Taylor

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

‘Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person.’ – Sophia Bush

‘In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.’ – Iris Murdoch

‘I married beneath me, all women do.’ – Nancy Astor

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

‘When I get married, it’ll be no secret.’ – Elvis Presley

‘Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.’ – Joyce Brothers

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

‘I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

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

‘Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it’s not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.’ – Amy Grant

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

‘Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.’ – W. H. Auden

‘But marriage goes in waves. You’ve got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don’t put the work and the effort into it. You’ve got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.’ – Anna Benson

‘All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.’ – Oliver Goldsmith

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

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

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

‘Marriage is a mistake every man should make.’ – George Jessel

‘Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage – they’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.’ – Rita Rudner

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

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

‘Marriage – a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.’ – Beverley Nichols

‘Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.’ – Alexander Pope

‘Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.’ – Catherine Zeta-Jones

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

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

‘A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.’ – Honore de Balzac

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

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

‘Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.’ – Jane Austen

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

‘The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don’t find very often, then that is what love is all about.’ – Bruce Forsyth

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

‘Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.’ – Jean Giraudoux

‘When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘Marriage is an exercise in torture.’ – Frances Conroy

‘Love is often the fruit of marriage.’ – Moliere

‘I’ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.’ – Rose Kennedy

‘Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.’ – Groucho Marx

‘Daddy was real gentle with kids. That’s why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.’ – Loretta Lynn

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

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

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

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

‘I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.’ – Bette Davis

‘A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.’ – Eddie Cantor

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

‘A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.’ – Andre Maurois

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

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

‘In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.’ – Rita Rudner

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

‘For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.’ – Erma Bombeck

‘All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest – never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.’ – Ann Landers

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

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

‘It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.’ – Jasmine Guy

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

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

‘When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.’ – Helen Gahagan

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

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

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

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

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

‘Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.’ – Katharine Hepburn

‘On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.’ – Emma Goldman

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

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

‘It isn’t tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it’s separating himself from all the others.’ – Helen Rowland

‘Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.’ – Marilyn Monroe

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

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

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

‘Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.’ – Linda Fiorentino

‘The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.’ – A. P. Herbert

‘A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.’ – Helen Rowland

‘A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.’ – Andre Maurois

‘Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘Marriage is a gamble, let’s be honest.’ – Yoko Ono

‘I think it’s something that needs to be said – that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there’s nothing wrong with it.’ – Tia Mowry

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

‘I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.’ – Michael Bergin

‘Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing… the secret of having it all is loving it all.’ – Joyce Brothers

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

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

‘I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don’t spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.’ – Reese Witherspoon

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

‘Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you’ll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.’ – Neil Simon

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

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

‘Perhaps my problem in marriage – and it is the problem of many women – was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.’ – Hedy Lamarr

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

‘When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.’ – Marie Osmond

‘It’s not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.’ – Euripides

‘Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.’ – Ellen Key

‘I like getting married, but I don’t like being married.’ – Don Adams

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

‘When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.’ – Warren Farrell

‘I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don’t regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can’t have it all.’ – Lauren Bacall

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

‘Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.’ – Robert Graves

‘Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.’ – 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.’ – Hesiod

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

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

‘Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.’ – Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

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

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

‘I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.’ – Stephanie Mills

‘A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.’ – Joey Adams

‘In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.’ – Enid Bagnold

‘Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.’ – Isadora Duncan

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

‘Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.’ – Jean de la Bruyere

‘Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.’ – John Boehner

‘Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted the whole day.’ – Mickey Rooney

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

‘Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it.’ – Josh Billings

‘Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

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

‘Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.’ – Jean Cocteau

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

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

‘Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.’ – Jerry Seinfeld

‘I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger

‘The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.’ – Julia Child

‘May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.’ – Rumi

‘I think marriage is a scary concept. It’s a scary concept for anybody. I’m not sure where I sit with that.’ – Hozier

‘Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.’ – George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

‘You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.’ – Omar Khayyam

‘Marriage is the death of hope.’ – Woody Allen

‘What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? – Angela Carter’ – Angela Carter

‘The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.’ – Dolly Parton

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

‘Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.’ – George W. Bush

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

‘My first marriage was ruined by feminist indoctrination.’ – Mike Cernovich

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

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

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

‘In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.’ – William Penn

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

‘The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make – not just on your wedding day, but over and over again – and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.’ – Barbara De Angelis

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

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

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

‘Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.’ – Voltaire

‘I was a Christian. I didn’t want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.’ – Jimmy Carr

‘Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.’ – John Updike

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

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

‘A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.’ – John C. Maxwell

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

‘Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.’ – Menander

‘Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.’ – Simone Signoret

‘Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.’ – Helene D. Gayle

‘Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.’ – Marilyn Monroe

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

‘Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.’ – Thomas Moore

‘Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.’ – Irwin Corey

‘Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.’ – Pope John Paul II

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

‘I like marriage. The idea.’ – Toni Morrison

‘I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.’ – Barack Obama

‘One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘The argument that gay marriage doesn’t affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.’ – Ben Shapiro

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

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

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

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

‘The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.’ – Peter De Vries

‘Marriage isn’t the end-point of a relationship. It’s just a stepping stone, one aspect of a long-term evolution between two people who have, for whatever reason, decided to take a leap of faith and say, ‘Well, hey, this is a person who I want to try with for the rest of my life.’ Which is not a guarantee of perfection – far from it.’ – Marjorie Liu

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

‘Gay marriage is absolutely something that I am in full support of and a big advocate of, and I think it’s an important issue, but there’s a reason that I don’t talk about politics and why I’ll never be in politics. I am not the person to ever do that.’ – Jamie-Lynn Sigler

‘A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.’ – Queen Victoria

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

‘I’ve just concluded – since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people, and enjoys an attractive countenance – thus if it becomes necessary, I shall travel to Washington, D.C., get down on my knee, and ask his hand.’ – Robert Mugabe

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

‘A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.’ – Helen Rowland

‘Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘I’m not for gay marriage, but I’m not for discriminating against people.’ – Joel Osteen

‘Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.’ – Dick Gregory

‘Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There’s immense happiness that can come from working towards that.’ – Nick Cave

‘Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.’ – Alan Arkin

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

‘Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner – the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It’s like opening Pandora’s box.’ – Jennifer Aniston

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

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

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

‘In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.’ – J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

‘More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.’ – Rainer Maria Rilke

‘Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?’ – H. L. Mencken

‘Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.’ – William Shakespeare

‘Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I’m afraid it did.’ – Bette Davis

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

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

‘As a devoted mother and private person, and with complete awareness that my daughter will one day be old enough to read the news about herself, I would only like to say that I will never, ever be commenting on the dissolution of my marriage.’ – Scarlett Johansson

‘I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.’ – Maria Callas

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

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

‘Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.’ – Zig Ziglar

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

‘Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.’ – Henny Youngman

‘Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.’ – Susan B. Anthony

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

‘I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.’ – Imtiaz Ali

‘Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.’ – Kevin Gates

‘The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.’ – Anita Ekberg

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

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

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

‘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.’ – Francois Englert

‘You can propose marriage naked or in handcuffs, but no one is going to agree to forsake all others for a man in shorts. You can’t declare war in shorts or deliver a eulogy in shorts.’ – A. A. Gill

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

‘One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that’s a real common mistake that we make.’ – Max Lucado

‘Marriage is socialism among two people.’ – Barbara Ehrenreich

‘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.’ – Dan Savage

‘Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.’ – William O. Douglas

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

‘Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.’ – Washington Irving

‘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.’ – Ratan Tata

‘Marriage does figure in my life, as I do want to have children. But I could also consider having children without getting married. The primary thing is having a good father, a partner who could be there with me through that journey.’ – Jacqueline Fernandez

‘Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It’s harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next.’ – Pink

‘I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.’ – Carson Daly

‘By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority arms well every challenger to a state law restricting marriage to its traditional definition.’ – Antonin Scalia

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

‘It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don’t want genocide. We don’t want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.’ – Alveda King

‘You know, that, with every choice you make there are consequences. And so if you have an amazing husband and you have a child, you go outside that marriage and outside that relationship, there are consequences that follow.’ – Heather Headley

‘Marriage is marriage. Everybody has problems.’ – Mel Gibson

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

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

‘Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.’ – Henrik Ibsen

‘Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what’s more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?’ – Dennis Miller

‘To me marriage is for five or ten years.’ – Cher

‘My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn’t have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 – a baby.’ – Carol Vorderman

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

‘I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, ‘I’ll arrange a marriage for you at 18,’ but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.’ – Indra Nooyi

‘Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.’ – Gene Simmons

‘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.’ – Portia de Rossi

‘I’m for same-sex marriage.’ – Stone Cold Steve Austin

‘It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.’ – Myles Munroe

‘It’s so important in marriage to let the little things go and let the pride go. Forgiveness is so important, and communication. Don’t major on the minors.’ – Kimberly Schlapman

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

‘Atul had a child from his first marriage but lost him when he was just 16 years old. His wife died 7-8 years later. He’s really had a tough life. Probably these experiences have made him a more sensitive, caring and loving person… Had we been 20 years younger, we definitely would have had children.’ – Suhasini Mulay

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

‘In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.’ – Miroslav Volf

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

‘Marriage, for whatever reason, has always both interested and terrified me.’ – Ryan Eggold

‘I’m so wrapped up in my work that it’s often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.’ – Jim Carrey

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

‘My first marriage ended after 24 years.’ – Jerry Della Femina

‘My mom, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage.’ – Alyson Hannigan

‘Does God feel like that same-sex marriage could happen? I don’t think anybody who has a connection to God and God’s understanding and depth of compassion who’s gonna say ‘no.” – Greg Boyle

‘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.’ – Lawrence Bender

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

‘Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.’ – Boris Pasternak

‘Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.’ – William Congreve

‘The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.’ – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

‘At the age of 23, I got married. I think it would’ve worked if I married a little later on, as a person with little more maturity and little more to understand about marriage how it works. May be it would have worked, you never know.’ – Amala Paul

‘I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.’ – Benjamin Spock

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

‘We can’t destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.’ – Robin Morgan

‘As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God’s definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.’ – Billy Graham

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

‘Marriage is the tomb of love.’ – Giacomo Casanova

‘Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.’ – Ben Carson

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

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

‘Cristiano Ronaldo respects the fans – it’s like a marriage. There are good days and bad days, but the important thing is that they love each other.’ – Luka Modric

‘In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.’ – Dennis Prager

‘Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.’ – Lady Gaga

‘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.’ – Anne Hathaway

‘Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it’s also a political and economic contract of the highest order.’ – Elizabeth Gilbert

‘I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.’ – Mark Ruffalo

‘I like the idea of marriage, but I think I’m a nomad.’ – Laila Rouass

‘In the perfect world, no one would need pre-nups. But all too often, a misty-eyed romancer at the altar transforms into a vengeful, avaricious fiscal predator when the marriage goes south.’ – Lionel Shriver

‘Marriage is not for everyone.’ – Michael J. Knowles

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

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

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

‘I don’t think marriage is in the cards for me. I think it’s an archaic institution.’ – CM Punk

‘I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.’ – Manny Pacquiao

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

‘My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage – everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.’ – Lee Strobel

‘After my marriage ended – a hundred years ago – I had a few memorable Christmases on my own: what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ – Douglas Henshall

‘Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they’ve all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there’s something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.’ – Bob Newhart

‘In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that’s ever happened to me.’ – Caroline Kennedy

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

‘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.’ – Donald Johanson

‘My parents’ marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren’t good for each other.’ – Gail Porter

‘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?’ – Riteish Deshmukh

‘As marriage goes, I think most people sort of set being – you know getting married as the goal as opposed to being married.’ – Ashton Kutcher

‘Marriage is a terrible institution, it creates such a regression of the mind.’ – Fela Kuti

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

‘What Andrew Cuomo said is, truly, a scandal. It’s a scandal if he actually thinks it – that those who hold conservative views on abortion, gun rights and marriage are extreme, anathema and have no place in the state.’ – Peggy Noonan

‘No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.’ – Johnny Weissmuller

‘You can block a marriage, but you cannot force a marriage.’ – Emmanuel Macron

‘I can say I’ve been a loyal husband. Marriage is based on trust.’ – Ranjeet

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

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

‘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.’ – Ken Ham

‘Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.’ – Helen Reddy

‘Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It’s about something greater. It’s about acceptance.’ – Charlize Theron

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

‘I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.’ – William Shatner

‘I believe all people, regardless of sexual orientation, should be guaranteed the full rights to the legal benefits and responsibilities of marriage under the Constitution.’ – Tim Kaine

‘I think we will have full marriage rights in Colorado. But in 1992, there was a very hateful Amendment 2 that basically made it legal for any institution to deny gays and lesbians access, whether it’s hospitals or restaurants or employment. Anybody could fire you or not let you in a restaurant because you were gay.’ – Martina Navratilova

‘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.’ – Halle Berry

‘I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time.’ – John Naisbitt

‘My ring represents a promise to myself and to God that I’ll stay pure until marriage.’ – Kevin Jonas

‘I always say now that I’m in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.’ – Hugh Hefner

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

‘For my family, belief in God and in the resurrection of Jesus Christ brings such hope and promise to our lives. It strengthens our family and our marriage as we focus on Christ as our example of pure love, compassion and tolerance towards others. This positive message is one that helps us become better people each day.’ – Mercedes Schlapp

‘We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.’ – Juan Antonio Samaranch

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

‘The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.’ – Ethan Hawke

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

‘Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.’ – Tertullian

‘I’ve yet to be on a campus where most women weren’t worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I’ve yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘Well I don’t know that I’m okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one – I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.’ – L. Ron Hubbard

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

‘I came from a happy family with loving parents, so my associations with marriage and children were all happy, positive things that brought me comfort as a child, which I wanted in my life.’ – David Furnish

‘The marriage equality ruling establishes for the American public where the majority already are – which is that love is love and discriminating against a human being based on love is idiotic.’ – Ted Lieu

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

‘In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.’ – Robert Anderson

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

‘How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.’ – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

‘As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.’ – Socrates

‘The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.’ – Amy Grant

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

‘I’ve always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them.’ – John Travolta

‘On the issue of the gay marriage, I believe if people want to have private ceremonies, that’s fine. I do not believe that gay marriages should be legal.’ – John McCain

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

‘May these vows and this marriage be blessed.’ – Rumi

‘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.’ – Kenneth G. Wilson

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

‘Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.’ – Camille Paglia

‘For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That’s why we didn’t sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions.’ – Katy Perry

‘Every single person suffers; every marriage has some major battles. Life pulls you in different directions. But if you try, and you’re lucky, you can find your way back to each other.’ – Taya Kyle

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

‘I don’t know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents’ marriage. And it’s interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.’ – Jhumpa Lahiri

‘I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24×7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.’ – Kajol

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

‘Marriage is a wonderful thing.’ – Patrick McGoohan

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

‘There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.’ – Martin Luther

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

‘Marriage is an ongoing thing, man. You continue to work at it. But it’s joyful. And joyous. I don’t care if people are living without a marriage certificate. It’s just about people, in some way, saying to each other, ‘I commit to you. I will help you in this life.” – James McAvoy

‘I have always maintained a strong opposition to marriage because I would have to be in serious denial to pretend I wasn’t born with a personality for divorce. Whatever the opposite of amicable is, that’s how my breakups tend to play out.’ – Chelsea Handler

‘Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.’ – George Eliot

‘It’s funny – I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I’m rounder in the face, I like to say, ‘This is my long-term look.’ Or ‘This is my wife-and-kids look right here.” – Garrett Hedlund

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

‘To be honest, marriage doesn’t scare me and that, it’s just once you’ve been together for so long, if you haven’t got any kids it’s just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn’t it?’ – Karl Pilkington

‘Just as the unique characteristics of both males and females contribute to the completeness of a marriage relationship, so those same characteristics are vital to the rearing, nurturing, and teaching of children.’ – David A. Bednar

‘Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.’ – Marilyn Monroe

‘The Obama administration came into Utah and said, ‘We’re not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. ‘We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,’ and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.’ – Ted Cruz

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

‘What is satire if not a marriage of civil disobedience to a laugh track, a potent brew of derision and lack of respect that acts as a nettle sting on the thin skin of the humourless?’ – Mona Eltahawy

‘Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour – an almost neutral environmental effect coupled with the ability to travel substantial distances without disturbing anybody. The bike is the perfect marriage of technology and human energy.’ – Jeremy Corbyn

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

‘My marriage to Chasten has made me a better man.’ – Pete Buttigieg

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

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

‘Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.’ – Helen Rowland

‘You don’t really need to get married, but marriage is awfully nice. Everybody I know who got married, they say it really makes a difference. They feel very, very happy about it.’ – Lily Tomlin

‘There’s not a lot of room anymore for what I call ‘made-up’ drama. The drama comes from real places now – marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don’t grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you’ve got some real drama.’ – Jeremy Sisto

‘Marriage is hard work, period.’ – Kyle Chandler

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

‘When you’re dating a rock star, it’s not about commitment and marriage.’ – Sonja Morgan

‘Having a baby will put your marriage through the ringer, and if you’re lucky, you’ll come out the other end stronger for it.’ – Rachel Hollis

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

‘Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.’ – Joan Fontaine

‘When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl – and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to – which you can’t deny is the penalty of marriage.’ – Queen Victoria

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

‘TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people’s lives; it’s like a marriage.’ – Joss Whedon

‘Just going through a marriage and a divorce – which I essentially did by 21 – will give you an insane amount of perspective on life.’ – Solange Knowles

‘I guess there were things about the Obamas I discovered that I do think are universal to marriage. I found it very interesting in my reporting that their most difficult periods in the White House almost never seemed to coincide. When one was down, the other one was holding it together. In my experience, that’s true of marriage generally.’ – Jodi Kantor

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

‘There has to be a mutual respect and trust for any marriage to work.’ – Amala Akkineni

‘I don’t know if I believe in marriage – I believe in love.’ – Romeo Santos

‘I don’t have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does – and I’m much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.’ – Jennifer Garner

‘When you’re both actors, it is feast or famine financially and emotionally in your marriage.’ – Nicola Walker

‘Marriage seems to be predicated on protecting a very deep and intimate form of mystery.’ – Lauren Groff

‘Gay marriage – it’s not about two people being gay: it’s about two people who love each other and who have decided to commit to each other for the exact same reasons any other couple would get married.’ – Luke Macfarlane

‘With my divorce, and even during the end of my marriage before it even got publicly bad, how I decided to cope with things was to go on the treadmill for an hour.’ – Khloe Kardashian

‘I’ve done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I’ve found no evidence that it brings happiness.’ – Mary McCormack

‘My second marriage to Jessica just fell apart. It was nothing to do with restaurants.’ – John Torode

‘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.’ – Gary Johnson

‘My father, a refugee from Eastern Europe, was preparing a fraudulent marriage to an American citizen as a route to this country when he was sponsored, making fraud unnecessary. My wife’s grandfather bought papers from another Chinese villager to be able to come to the United States.’ – Nicholas Kristof

‘Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.’ – Benjamin Todd Jealous

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

‘More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit.’ – Tim Murphy

‘As any opera fan knows, lawyers and judges do not fare well in most operas. Just consider the productions of ‘Andrea Chenier,’ ‘Aida, Norma,’ ‘Billy Budd,’ ‘Peter Grimes,’ ‘The Crucible,’ ‘Lost in the Stars,’ ‘The Marriage of Figaro,’ ‘The Makropulos Case’ and Wagner’s ‘Ring’ cycle. Around 1810, the theme of justice emerged in opera.’ – Karen DeCrow

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

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

‘I think marriage initially involves a lot of people who have nothing to do with your relationship, because it’s a legally binding contract, and that has a weight to it.’ – Scarlett Johansson

‘I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I’ve always thought that it’s counterproductive to have a theory on that.’ – Jack Nicholson

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

‘Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children.’ – Jonathan Haidt

‘If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.’ – Johnny Carson

‘Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man’s life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.’ – Lafcadio Hearn

‘I think marriage is all about timing.’ – Cate Blanchett

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

‘Same sex marriage, it’s not a big concern to me.’ – Tomi Lahren

‘Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.’ – Malcolm Gladwell

‘Marriage is scary to me, man.’ – The Weeknd

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

‘It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.’ – Herbert Samuel

‘Each couple’s version of intimacy is so fascinating to me. A friend will tell me about her marriage, and I’ll think, ‘Yikes, they have horrible communication! They’re going to get divorced!’ And then I’ll hear about them at another time and think, ‘Wow, they love each other so much!” – Miranda July

‘People often think of America as a classless society, but, of course, that isn’t true. Within immigrant communities, there’s an enormous distinction of class, depending on who your parents are, and that kind of thing comes out really quick in things like marriage and interpersonal relationships.’ – Min Jin Lee

‘Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.’ – Sumner Redstone

‘For me it’s also – the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.’ – Katey Sagal

‘There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.’ – Alexander Theroux

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

‘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.’ – Karan Johar

‘Marriage is not super-important to me – most end in divorce. I love the idea of being with someone forever, but I don’t think it happens very often.’ – Georgina Bloomberg

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

‘I support traditional marriage. I always have.’ – Rob Ford

‘I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.’ – Henry Rollins

‘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.’ – Tony Campolo

‘Conventional wisdom tells us we’ll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.’ – Ariel Gore

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

‘If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period… single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.’ – Susan B. Anthony

‘I 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.’ – Alanis Morissette

‘In a perfect world, nothing will happen to Obergefell. And as long as that remains the case, the Respect for Marriage Act would be little more than the legislative equivalent of insurance. It’s not the most comprehensive policy. But it’s better to have half a safeguard than nothing at all if disaster strikes.’ – Jonathan Capehart

‘When you’re suddenly pregnant and no one is standing by your side, even if you’re in your 30s, it’s a hard conversation. I’m a traditional girl, and I believe in marriage, and I just always thought that’s the way I’d be doing this.’ – Bridget Moynahan

‘I took the fear of marriage from my parents’ relationship, because I didn’t want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn’t carry it on into their own marriages.’ – John Mahoney

‘Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.’ – Helen Rowland

‘Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.’ – Jimmy Dean

‘As my friend said to me, when you have children, typically in a second marriage, when you’re older and you get married again to a woman who would have children, you must always remember that you make sure the children attend a college where the commencement ceremonies are held in a facility with a wheelchair accessible ramp.’ – Alec Baldwin

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

‘I believe the GOP should pitch its big-top tent around fiscal conservatism and a muscular foreign policy rather than carnival bark outside the sideshow tents of gay marriage and reproductive choice.’ – Roger Stone

‘But how can one criticise someone else’s mother? One shouldn’t, really… particularly as my first marriage failed.’ – Sarah Bradford

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

‘I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.’ – Richard Pryor

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

‘Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.’ – Warren Beatty

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

‘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.’ – Raquel Welch

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

‘I was married once. When the tinsel from Tum Bin’ was wearing off, so was the happiness from my first marriage. Ever since, I’ve been wary of marrying again.’ – Priyanshu Chatterjee

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

‘Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘I come from divorce. I’m only doing marriage once. It’s not a game for me.’ – Shia LaBeouf

‘I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman’s right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.’ – Andrew Cuomo

‘Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.’ – Hubert H. Humphrey

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

‘I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn’t make another person feel loved.’ – Gary Chapman

‘It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.’ – Guy de Maupassant

‘You’re not a victim of your divorce. What you decide to do with yourself and your personal life after your marriage ends is your decision, and completely under your control.’ – Emily V. Gordon

‘The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.’ – Eleonora Duse

‘Marriage is all about taking care of people, moving your needs for their needs.’ – Rev. Run

‘Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.’ – Jeremy Taylor

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

‘That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.’ – John Updike

‘I don’t care how handsome or fabulous or funny the groom is, or how sweet and accommodating the bride, or vice versa. Marriage is hard.’ – Jenna McCarthy

‘If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.’ – Gordon B. Hinckley

‘There are many deaf people who couldn’t imagine living in a marriage without someone who doesn’t speak their language. For me, I believe that hearing or deaf is fine as long as both parties are willing to communicate in each other’s language. But if there’s no communication, then the marriage, I believe, will be difficult if not doomed.’ – Marlee Matlin

‘Marriage? It’s like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.’ – Francoise Sagan

‘Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.’ – Randy Neugebauer

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

‘Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman.’ – Nick Lampson

‘God invented concubinage, satan marriage.’ – Francis Picabia

‘I think everyone has shame about something, whether it’s a lack of a relationship with a child or maybe their weight or a lack of communication within their marriage. Everyone can relate to that because we all have something that we’re like, ‘God, I can work on that,’ or, ‘I wish I was better at doing this.” – Chrissy Metz

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

‘My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.’ – Rodney Dangerfield

‘Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.’ – Thomas Love Peacock

‘Marriage is obsolete and a trap.’ – Catherine Deneuve

‘I don’t particularly think marriage is a sane thing.’ – Sean Young

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

‘Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn’t be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he’s the person I want to strain with.’ – Patricia Arquette

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

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

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

‘I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that’s been helpful in my marriage.’ – Sarah Jessica Parker

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

‘If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.’ – Phil McGraw

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

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

‘There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, ‘I’m going to introduce you to so-and-so – If you don’t like them, fair enough.” – Archie Panjabi

‘I feel people naturally have a brightness. When that is extinguished by circumstances – be it a wrong marriage or a situation that you cannot leave psychologically – there’s something about that dying spark that I’m drawn to playing.’ – Vanessa Kirby

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

‘I’ve always been suspicious of TV, I’ve always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.’ – Keith Richards

‘Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there’s a theatre element, a dramatic element. It’s right up my alley.’ – Shane Koyczan

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

‘I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.’ – Vanessa Kerry

‘I yearned for a long, happy marriage with one person.’ – Ginger Rogers

‘It will be very difficult for whoever will be with me, not even in marriage, whoever goes out with me seriously. Even if she doesn’t look remotely like my mother, she will be compared to her.’ – Albert II, Prince of Monaco

‘I have a best friend as a husband, and he is my number one supporter. He’s a family man, and he’s always giving back to God. That is what makes him a beautiful man. We’re not perfect by any means, but that makes us beautiful as well. We’re not afraid to say we’re not perfect. We have our disagreements, but that comes along with marriage.’ – Tamera Mowry

‘Marriage is a very important man-made institution. Once you are married, you need to honour that.’ – Kashmira Shah

‘I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church’s teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.’ – Princess Margaret

‘I have become more and more afraid about marriage and parenting. I think it’s because I am getting older. Of course, there will be a lot to learn, and I also know that the experience will help in my acting.’ – Gong Yoo

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

‘I don’t know what it takes to make marriage work, but I’m going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven’t given up on love or marriage.’ – Stephanie Mills

‘I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.’ – June Carter Cash

‘Kim Kardashian’s marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine; the groom, in this scenario, is nothing but a prop.’ – Naomi Wolf

‘My marriage to Marjorie is the most rewarding thing that ever happened to me. She gave me a life and a relationship that I didn’t know existed.’ – Steve Harvey

‘You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

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

‘I do believe that God blessed me in life with a wonderful family, a successful career, and a loving marriage, and remain thankful for that blessing.’ – Bonnie Tyler

‘Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed.’ – Laura Wasser

‘Anything that you do in life, whether it’s work or a relationship or marriage, you get into it with a lot of positivity.’ – Nayanthara

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

‘I think it’s unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.’ – Elizabeth Gilbert

‘To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.’ – Gillian Flynn

‘I’m 0 for 3 with marriage – the scoreboard doesn’t lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.’ – Charlie Sheen

‘Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.’ – Coretta Scott King

‘If dysfunction means that a family doesn’t work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners – the whole enchilada.’ – Mary Karr

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

‘I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.’ – Bernadette Peters

‘It’s always so hard when people assume someone cheated or broke up a marriage, when the truth may actually be much more complicated.’ – Christian Borle

‘My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.’ – J. Robert Oppenheimer

‘With the notion of marriage – an exclusive, emotional, binding ’til death do you part’ tie – becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal government be telling adults who love one another that they cannot get married simply because they happen to be gay?’ – Lisa Murkowski

‘How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork.’ – Gad Saad

‘Righteous marriage is a commandment and an essential step in the process of creating a loving family relationship that can be perpetuated beyond the grave.’ – David A. Bednar

‘I know I’m guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don’t really prepare for how much work marriage really is.’ – John Krasinski

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

‘I have an idea of marriage as being a sharing type of deal.’ – Troy Aikman

‘I am a pro-gay marriage conservative. And I’m pretty damn confident in my sexuality.’ – Will Cain

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

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

‘Marriage is work. Get it out of your thick skull that marriage is, ‘Oh, we got married and now we just live forever wonderfully.’ It’s work. It’s just like starting a business: You’re going to bicker with your business partner, but you don’t leave the business partner. You work it out.’ – Jim Breuer

‘A lasting relationship isn’t about marriage. It’s about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work.’ – Goldie Hawn

‘Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.’ – Peter De Vries

‘I’m not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.’ – Natalie Portman

‘The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.’ – Gene Simmons

‘Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.’ – Julia Ward Howe

”Revolutionary Road’ is a fascinating study of the human condition of a fragmenting marriage and the torment that these two people put themselves through in their efforts to try and find happiness and try and stay together, actually.’ – Kate Winslet

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

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

‘Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.’ – Dora Russell

‘I don’t believe in the institution of marriage anymore. It’s redundant; it’s an outdated institution. It’s like lanterns in a house, you don’t use them anymore.’ – Vikram Bhatt

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

‘Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.’ – Denise Richards

‘I had been living in Ohio in my own house with my own life when my marriage abruptly came to an end. I had nowhere to go with my two sons, very little money, and not much to do in Ohio except be someone’s ex-wife. My parents instantly and very generously invited my family to move back home to New York, where I could begin again.’ – Isabel Gillies

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

‘You’re not just going out there, maybe sacrificing your own life. There’s also sacrifices still going on at home. You can serve in the military and have a good marriage, but you just need to be aware of it so you can take those steps to take care of it.’ – Chris Kyle

‘Judaism doesn’t recognize gay marriage, just as we don’t recognize milk and meat together as kosher, and nothing will change it… I’m not a hypocrite; I state my positions.’ – Naftali Bennett

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

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

‘It is a mistake for women to think that life begins only with marriage. A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do.’ – James E. Faust

‘After marriage, I will have two sets of parents who are proud of me. And I also know that I won’t do anything that will embarrass them. That is the trust they have in me and the responsibility that I have as a wife, friend, and also as an artiste.’ – Shweta Tripathi

‘I think the idea of marriage is very romantic; it’s a beautiful idea, and the practice of it can be a very beautiful thing.’ – Scarlett Johansson

‘After marriage, the other man’s wife looks more beautiful.’ – Navjot Singh Sidhu

‘My parents’ long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.’ – Olivia Williams

‘Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor – they have children that they don’t want or they cannot feed.’ – Isabel Allende

‘I don’t think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.’ – Joel Osteen

‘Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!’ – Ben Affleck

‘I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.’ – Kyle Chandler

‘Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.’ – Drew Barrymore

‘The key to a happy marriage is myself being absent for long periods of time. My wife Leesa and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary next year, but if my comedy gigs petered out and I was around the house more, we’d 100% be getting divorced.’ – Romesh Ranganathan

‘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.’ – Keith O’Brien

‘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.’ – Dax Shepard

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

‘The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.’ – Ted Cruz

‘Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.’ – Talulah Riley

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

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

‘Simply put, if The Lord made homosexuals as well as heterosexuals, why should I discriminate against their civil marriage? I shouldn’t, and I won’t.’ – Bill Nelson

‘My marriage is far from perfect. We’re not hand-holdy and soft. We are snippy and bickery. We sleep in separate beds because we have no tolerance of each other’s night-time idiosyncrasies.’ – Lisa Jewell

‘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.’ – Jasper Carrott

‘Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.’ – Seamus Heaney

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

‘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.’ – Jhumpa Lahiri

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

‘Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.’ – J. B. Priestley

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

‘So many people prefer to live in drama because it’s comfortable. It’s like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship – it’s actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.’ – Ellen DeGeneres

‘Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.’ – Margaret Cavendish

‘If a man aspires for a political career, he can start at 18 and go on and on. This is not true about women, who fall back when marriage and children happen, which are equally important. That is not gender bias.’ – Jaggi Vasudev

‘Homosexuals can be, you know, committed to each other. And they have freedom to behave in the ways that they do, but they cannot be a family. They cannot be married. I mean, virtually every culture in the history of the world has considered marriage to be between one woman and one man.’ – James Dobson

‘I think marriage is ghastly.’ – Rupert Everett

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

‘Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.’ – Rashida Jones

‘I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.’ – Jennifer Garner

‘I do think about marriage, but it’s not the end-all goal.’ – Chelsea Handler

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

‘I don’t know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.’ – Michelle Williams

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

‘She has been more than a mother than me – not much, but definitely more… She’s been an unsolicited stylist, interior decorator and marriage counselor… Admittedly, I found it difficult to share my mother with her adoring fans, who treated her like she was part of their family.’ – Carrie Fisher

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

‘Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.’ – Samuel Richardson

‘There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place… But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.’ – Kajol

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

‘Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.’ – Phil Spector

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

‘I’m most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don’t have that, you really don’t have very much.’ – Bob Newhart

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

‘Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘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.” – Dan T. Cathy

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

‘By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fulness of glory. Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities, males and females each bring to a marriage relationship unique perspectives and experiences.’ – David A. Bednar

‘Of course I dream to have this perfect man who does not want to change me. And I’m so not marriage material, it’s terrible. But my dream is to have those Sunday mornings, where you’re eating breakfast and reading newspapers with somebody.’ – Marina Abramovic

‘New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It’s not just a residual of life; it’s a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It’s our culture.’ – Wendell Pierce

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

‘What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job.’ – Barack Obama

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

‘I guess when there’s a real void in your life and your marriage has become rotten, you fantasize a lot of things.’ – Anita Bryant

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

‘I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.’ – Ed Case

‘I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.’ – Vicki Lawrence

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

‘I chose ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ specifically ’cause I had just made ‘The Bourne Identity’ and made a film that glamorized being an action hero, and I wanted to make the exact opposite. I wanted to make a movie that glamorized maintaining a marriage, and that made the action hero part seem easy and made the marriage part seem hard.’ – Doug Liman

‘To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I’m not religious.’ – Alastair Campbell

‘The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.’ – John Updike

‘When I was being sold into marriage, it was hard to see a future for myself.’ – Sonita Alizadeh

‘I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.’ – Billy Graham

‘Marriage is a work in progress, but it’s beautiful.’ – Jurnee Smollett-Bell

‘Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.’ – George W. Bush

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

‘I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.’ – Ricky Skaggs

‘I don’t think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.’ – Ranbir Kapoor

‘Either somebody has equal rights, or they don’t. And certainly in the Irish constitution, marriage is genderless. There’s no mention of a man and a woman.’ – Hozier

‘It means a lot to me, the sanctity of marriage.’ – Darlene Love

‘Marriage was never a dream or an ambition for me. I thank my real mother for the fact that – unlike my sitcom mother – she never put any pressure on me or my sister to marry.’ – Miranda Hart

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

‘To enter upon the marriage union is one of the most deeply important events of life. It cannot be too prayerfully treated. Our happiness, our usefulness, our living for God or for ourselves afterwards, are often most intimately connected with our choice. Therefore, in the most prayerful manner, this choice should be made.’ – George Muller

‘It couldn’t be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn’t really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don’t gravitate to it.’ – Jon Hamm

‘At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.’ – Sam Brownback

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

‘Like the marriage contract you entered into, your divorce is a legal transaction. Treat it that way. Try not to let emotion, hurt, fear or anger dictate the circumstances of your discussions or negotiations.’ – Laura Wasser

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

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

‘It’s kind of frustrating when you’re watching something and you know what’s real and then people are telling you no. Fans are very into the idea of good old-fashioned marriage. They don’t like pretending when you’re married that you’re not.’ – Brandi Rhodes

‘Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want, abolish laws against homosexual conduct. That’s how the change in a society occurs. Society doesn’t change through a Constitution.’ – Antonin Scalia

‘For me, personally, marriage is a man and a woman living together.’ – Angela Merkel

‘After a stage in our marriage, me and Bob had passed being husband and wife… We came to be brother and sister and I had to accept his other sweethearts and the children they gave him.’ – Rita Marley

‘I’m not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don’t know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.’ – Marisa Tomei

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

‘As soon as love became the driving force behind marriage, people began to demand the right to remain single if they had not found love or to divorce if they fell out of love.’ – Stephanie Coontz

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

‘What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.’ – Gertrude Stein

‘I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.’ – Daryl Hall

‘Every marriage takes work. It doesn’t dilute our love or make our marriage any weaker, it actually makes it stronger because we’re willing to have those conversations.’ – Fearne Cotton

‘You have to fight for your marriage, do whatever it takes. The commitment has to be there. And if you don’t have a sense of humor, I don’t know how anybody makes it.’ – Kay Robertson

‘Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.’ – Helen Rowland

‘In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.’ – Tim Allen

”The Split’ is actually really hopeful – although it’s left me reeling slightly, thinking about what we do to each other in the name of love, within the contract of marriage.’ – Nicola Walker

‘Marriage is a risk; I think it’s a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.’ – Cate Blanchett

‘Despite my divorces, I still believe in marriage, and I have believed in all my marriages, although maybe not the one with Sylvester Stallone, as I was really pressured to marry him.’ – Brigitte Nielsen

‘I am much more open to plural marriage than I was before, and I now support it in certain situations. I do believe it is right for some people. But our example in America today is gross abuse – I can’t support it in fundamentalist compounds.’ – Ginnifer Goodwin

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

‘I remember, in the early days of my marriage, I thought I married the wrong person. We held to our own ideas of what the other should be and do, but neither of us lived up to those expectations.’ – Gary Chapman

‘I believe that anybody can cohabitate with whoever they want to, but marriage to me is, you know, between a man and a woman and I’m not going to be afraid to say it.’ – Mike Braun

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

‘The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.’ – Billy Graham

‘After marriage, a woman’s sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man’s so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.’ – Helen Rowland

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

‘After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.’ – Helen Rowland

‘I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.’ – Marc Chagall

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

‘There are four stages in a marriage. First there’s the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.’ – Norman Mailer

‘There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.’ – Millicent Carey McIntosh

‘In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don’t know, but they do.’ – Earl Warren

‘Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

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

‘When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I’d heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.’ – Courteney Cox

‘After about 20 years of marriage, I’m finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.’ – Mel Gibson

‘The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.’ – Demi Moore

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

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

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

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

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

‘Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.’ – Henry Adams

‘Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other’s faults.’ – Richard Armour

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

‘American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.’ – Florence King

‘The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.’ – Denis Diderot

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

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

‘In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving – instead of actually getting up and leaving.’ – Erica Jong

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

‘The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.’ – Harriet Martineau

‘The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.’ – Iris Murdoch

‘I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.’ – Vera Brittain

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

‘During last night’s debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.’ – Conan O’Brien

‘It’s about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.’ – Alan Keyes

‘Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.’ – Jeff Sessions

‘For the life of me, I don’t understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.’ – Dianne Feinstein

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

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

‘It’s only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.’ – Ian Mckellen

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

‘The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.’ – Jim Talent

‘The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.’ – Jim Bunning

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

‘Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.’ – Mike Rounds

‘If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.’ – Michael Enzi

‘I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social – or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.’ – Mitt Romney

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

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

‘Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require.’ – Robert Foster Bennett

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

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

‘I’m also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage – which no previous society has ever believed.’ – Alain de Botton

‘What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.’ – Alain de Botton

‘I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I’m not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.’ – Amy Grant

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

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

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

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

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

‘Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.’ – Michelle Shocked

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

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

‘There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.’ – Richard G. Scott

‘I firmly believe in marriage. It’s a real important decision that takes a lot of dedication and time. If you’re thinking about divorce. You shouldn’t get married.’ – Seth Green

‘Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.’ – Edmond About

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

‘I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.’ – Paul Martin

‘The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.’ – Paul Martin

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

‘Adultery – which is the only grounds for divorce in New York – is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.’ – Allan Sherman

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

‘I’m not eager to jump into marriage again. I’m in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.’ – Lisa Marie Presley

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

‘I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.’ – Stephen Harper

‘I’ve always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.’ – Stephen Harper

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

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

‘Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.’ – Stockwell Day

‘Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage.’ – Stockwell Day

‘Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone’s right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.’ – Stockwell Day

‘Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.’ – Stockwell Day

‘My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.’ – Stockwell Day

‘In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.’ – David Gest

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

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

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

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

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

‘The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesn’t believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people.’ – Ken Mehlman

‘I’m a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn’t legislate this matter.’ – Pete Coors

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

‘Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.’ – Jayne Meadows

‘It’s very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship – whether it’s a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.’ – Kathy Valentine

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

‘Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.’ – Nick Lachey

‘I never thought I’d spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I’d never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.’ – Sadie Frost

‘I have a very intense marriage.’ – James Ellroy

‘President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage.’ – Bill Shuster

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

‘My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.’ – Mary Wesley

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

‘Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.’ – Mary Douglas

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

‘I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good – which is the family.’ – Rachel Griffiths

‘I figure no matter how old you are, it’s always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.’ – Utada Hikaru

‘In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.’ – Michael Kinsley

‘I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.’ – Linda Evans

‘I’m not a marriage expert, quite clearly.’ – Cathy Freeman

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

‘I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody’s civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.’ – Alan Autry

‘I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.’ – Corrine Brown

‘Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.’ – Corrine Brown

‘I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.’ – Darrell Royal

‘I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.’ – Ezra Cornell

‘To us marriage is first, everything else is second.’ – Julie Benz

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

‘The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.’ – Gerrit Smith

‘It’s very trying on a marriage when you’re doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don’t have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.’ – Gavin MacLeod

‘Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.’ – LaToya Jackson

‘Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.’ – Madeleine Stowe

‘It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It’s the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.’ – Rod Parsley

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

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

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

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

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

‘My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.’ – Nadia Comaneci

‘The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman’s finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.’ – Margaret Sanger

‘The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn’t get a divorce for almost a year.’ – Hedy Lamarr

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

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

‘That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.’ – Jesse Helms

‘I 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.’ – Peter Criss

‘I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.’ – Anne Stevenson

‘I decided he’d changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn’t like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks.’ – Anthony Holden

‘Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.’ – Jack Kingston

‘If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won’t exclude anyone.’ – 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.’ – Jack Kingston

‘But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.’ – Jack Kingston

‘Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.’ – Jack Kingston

‘Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.’ – 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.’ – Jack Kingston

‘I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.’ – Kelly Preston

‘When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.’ – Maggie Gallagher

‘Same-sex marriage is not the future.’ – Maggie Gallagher

‘Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.’ – Maggie Gallagher

‘A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.’ – J. Paul Getty

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

‘I have never been given to envy – save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.’ – J. Paul Getty

‘I’m looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes.’ – Lisa Guerrero

‘I know there are a lot of readers that think I’ve got a very crappy marriage just because of the things going on with Rick and Lori but there’s really nothing that’s been like a mirror. I’m just making this stuff up.’ – Robert Kirkman

‘I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don’t exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.’ – Helen Reddy

‘I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.’ – Helen Reddy

‘I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.’ – Dennis Rodman

‘After a while in marriage, it doesn’t work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.’ – Monica Bellucci

‘I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?’ – Paul Begala

‘The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there.’ – James Denton

‘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.’ – Jeff Miller

‘My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the ’60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.’ – Lisa Bonet

‘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.’ – Dalton Trumbo

‘My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that’s how it was in those days.’ – Erika Slezak

‘First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.’ – Maximilian Schell

‘French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.’ – Lafcadio Hearn

‘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.’ – Terry Gilliam

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

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

‘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.’ – Jessica Savitch

‘This marriage is no one’s business but our own.’ – Bobby Darin

‘I love John Irving’s stuff. It’s that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It’s really terrific.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.’ – Pat Travers

‘There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.’ – Billie Burke

‘I’ve never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.’ – Julie Christie

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

‘I was made to believe there was a plan in place for ending Donald’s previous marriage. I pulled away because I wanted to allow him the time to deal with his wife.’ – Marla Maples

‘Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.’ – Eva Gabor

‘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.’ – Rory Bremner

‘I didn’t know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.’ – Mary Cheney

‘It won’t take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.’ – Mary Cheney

‘Marriage has just never interested me.’ – Jacqueline Bisset

‘Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That’s what it couldn’t stand.’ – James Taylor

‘My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.’ – Mercedes McCambridge

‘Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.’ – Steve Chabot

‘Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.’ – Augusten Burroughs

‘I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it’s time to have kids.’ – Ashley Judd

‘My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can’t commit myself for such a long time.’ – Kim Wilde

‘I guess because the shows were activist in their own way – the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know – people understand me very well. They also understand there’s a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.’ – Norman Lear

‘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.’ – Jenna Elfman

‘I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it’s just an idea.’ – Lara Flynn Boyle

‘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.’ – Tony Campolo

‘I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.’ – Faith Hill

‘My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.’ – Maria Monk

‘There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.’ – Charles Eastman

‘After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.’ – Kyra Sedgwick

‘While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.’ – John Boehner

‘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.’ – John Boehner

‘But I don’t think that it’s a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I’ve found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three.’ – Jeanne Tripplehorn

‘The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.’ – Anne Tyler

‘There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I’m never going to cross to the other side.’ – Lynn Redgrave

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

‘I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.’ – Catherine Helen Spence

‘I think there are some people in life who are not marriage material and Chris is one of them.’ – Sharon Gless

‘I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage.’ – Lynn Johnston

‘Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.’ – Jeanette Winterson

‘I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.’ – Bianca Jagger

‘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.’ – Timothy Murphy

‘Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.’ – Roger Wicker

‘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.’ – Kate Adie

‘My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.’ – Joseph Barbera

‘If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.’ – George Carey

‘We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can’t have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem.’ – Ernest Istook

‘Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.’ – Ernest Istook

‘I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn’t believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.’ – Connie Sellecca

‘My marriage? Up to now everything’s okay. But it’s a real marriage – imperfect and very difficult. It’s all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we’ve emotionally evolved.’ – Jamie Lee Curtis

‘My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it’s just a number.’ – Jamie Lee Curtis

‘I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us.’ – Sarah Michelle Gellar

‘There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn’t feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.’ – Dionne Warwick

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

‘There were many women around. We all had a relationship with each other that was very strong. And all of our minds kind of hooked up. We rejected the society. We rejected marriage because we didn’t like what our parents had.’ – Lynette Fromme

‘And in a marriage you can’t TRY and be married. You’re married or you’re not married… as far as I’m concerned.’ – Ringo Starr

‘Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?’ – Brigitte Bardot

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

‘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.’ – Jimmy Swaggart

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

‘Other than marriage, she doesn’t control me and I don’t control her.’ – Gavyn Davies

‘I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.’ – Adam Rickitt

‘Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.’ – Judy Biggert

‘Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.’ – 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.’ – Judy Biggert

‘I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.’ – Anne Heche

‘This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger.’ – Shelley Fabares

‘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.’ – Marlo Thomas

‘Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.’ – Randy Neugebauer

‘Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.’ – Randy Neugebauer

‘So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything – my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.’ – Kathy Mattea

‘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.’ – 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.’ – Kendrick Meek

‘But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren’t getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?’ – Robert Downey, Jr.

‘Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.’ – Todd Tiahrt

‘I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.’ – Barack Obama

‘Men act out like they’re horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.’ – Rachel Hunter

‘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.’ – Julie London

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

‘Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.’ – Joe Moore

‘Books and marriage go ill together.’ – Moliere

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

‘Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it’s our business.’ – Gwyneth Paltrow

‘Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.’ – Marge Piercy

‘Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.’ – E. W. Howe

‘How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?’ – Randall Terry

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

‘My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn’t when I started.’ – Andrew Sullivan

‘With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.’ – Eleanor Holmes Norton

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

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

‘Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.’ – Elsa Maxwell

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

‘The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.’ – Al Goldstein

‘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.’ – Meg Ryan

‘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.’ – Dodie Smith

‘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?’ – Howard Stringer

‘It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.’ – Agnes Macphail

‘Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.’ – Aisha Tyler

‘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.’ – Joe Klein

‘Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.’ – Samuel Richardson

‘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.’ – Jim Wallis

‘Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won’t even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.’ – Helen Rowland

‘A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.’ – Anthony Trollope

‘We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.’ – Daniel Drew

‘One doesn’t have to get anywhere in a marriage. It’s not a public conveyance.’ – Iris Murdoch

‘Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!’ – William Hazlitt

‘Of all actions of a man’s life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.’ – John Selden

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

‘Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.’ – Ron Paul

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

‘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.’ – Marcel Achard

‘Never again! I can see no reason for marriage – ever at all. I’ve had it. Three times is enough.’ – Ingrid Bergman

‘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.’ – Ava Gardner

‘A woman asking ‘Am I good? Am I satisfied?’ is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.’ – Barbara Cartland

‘Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn’t get done.’ – Arlie Russell Hochschild

‘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.’ – 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.’ – James Lafferty

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