Marriage Quotes

I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.

I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.

I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people want to make sure that this definition of marriage remains secure, because after all, the family is the fundamental unit of government.

For a while I didn't believe in marriage. But I think I do believe in having a love. I'm not saying only one love ever, but in having a good, solid relationship. I think that's possible.

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.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was never going to happen to me again. I made a brave step to walk out in a society when you didn't walk out of an abusive marriage. It was mental and physical abuse.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

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

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.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

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

I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.

To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.

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.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

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.

Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.

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.

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.

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?

I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married.

Our black president can't say that he's for gay marriage. That is upsetting to me.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

People say, 'What's the secret to a marriage?' There's no secret - I think you get lucky.

I had a friend who, after 25 years of marriage, found himself trying to date again, and it was completely different. Everything had changed, and he had to reacquaint himself. It was funny even talking to him about it. For someone who has been out of the loop, it's a different world.

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.

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.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

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.

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.

I like marriage. I feel very secure. It helps when you are in love with the person you are married to.

My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

This marriage is no one's business but our own.

Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.

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.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

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

I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called.

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.

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

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, 'You can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.'

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.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

I was obsessed with The Who. I would have accepted a marriage proposal from Roger Daltrey on the spot. I went to all of their shows in San Francisco and some in L.A. That was as close as I got to being a groupie.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.

My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.

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.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.