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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
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
'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
Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?
— Michelle Pfeiffer
I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.
— Vidya Balan
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
Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too. 
— H. L. Mencken
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
— Joey Adams
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
— Katharine Hepburn
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
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
There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
— Princess Diana
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
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
— Mark Twain
They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.
— R. Kelly
The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.
— Olivia Wilde
You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.
— Jeremy Sisto
The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.
— Helen Mirren
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
My views are very fluctuating. I have very contradictory takes on the subject. Dating is easier, while marriage is hard work. You see your friends having early divorces, and on the other hand, you see your parents having a successful marriage.
— Kangana Ranaut
I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called.
— Ellen DeGeneres
The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, America could turn permanently blue.
— Ben Shapiro
People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie... you know, we didn't always have the greatest days. For at least half the length of our marriage we were separated, so everyday was definitely not a good day.
— Faith Evans
I think men are mainly unfaithful because as they get older, they feel the urge to prove to themselves that they are still attractive. They need proof from outside the marriage. It's really sad. It's all about them. It's not about their wives at all.
— Pattie Boyd
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
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
— Queen Victoria
The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.
— Anita Ekberg
You can't wake up one day and say 'I'm for gay marriage,' and wake up the next day and say 'I'm against it.' Wake up one day and say, 'I'm pro-choice,' and the next day wake up and say, 'I'm pro-life.' There's no credibility there.
— Roger Stone
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
— Andre Maurois
Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.
— Joyce Brothers
Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
— Eddie Cantor
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
Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
— Jean Giraudoux
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
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
— Red Skelton
It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
— Woody Allen
Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.
— Cher
Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.
— Joe Murray
But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.
— Anna Benson
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
— Herbert Spencer
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
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
— Marvin Gaye
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
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
Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.
— Malcolm Turnbull
When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.
— Rand Paul
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
More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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 may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
— Thomas Love Peacock
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
A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.
— Jim Samuels
I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
— Joel Osteen
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
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
— William Congreve
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
— Guy de Maupassant
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.
— Joel Osteen
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
Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?
— William Shatner
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
Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.
— Gary Bauer
The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds.
— Gene Robinson
One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case.
— Alana Stewart
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'
— Nancy Pearcey
The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips. What is involved is love for the entire family that one is marrying into.
— Dada Vaswani
Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.
— Joan Fontaine
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
Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.
— Melina Kanakaredes
I'm in love with love and totally believe in marriage, but that's not even on my radar right now. I am not putting energy into dating.
— Selena Gomez
My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that - well, my father's family came as Puritans to Massachusetts.
— Phil Jackson
I would love to get married, first of all, from my children's perspective. People don't think of children when they think of gay marriage, but I do have children, and for them to see their family validated as other families are validated and protected by our government, yes.
— Judy Gold
People should be allowed to marry, and gay marriage should be out there. If a man or a woman has a good partner and they love each other with their heart and soul, let them marry. I am very much for gay marriage.
— Pierce Brosnan
The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore.
— Ian Mckellen
It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it.
— Myles Munroe
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
People today expect too much from marriage. Getting married is really like taking on a big new job.
— Rosamunde Pilcher
It is disgusting that 'Life & Style' and 'InTouch' magazines continue to print these false stories about my life: the status of my marriage, false reports about a miscarriage, the horrible lie that my dad is not my biological father, jealousy over my sisters' lives, etc.
— Khloe Kardashian
TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children.
— Lucille Ball
I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
— Nancy Reagan
The United States is in a time of transition. Courts have redefined marriage, and beliefs about human sexuality are changing. Will the right to dissent be protected? Will the right of Americans to speak and act in accord with what the United States had always believed about marriage - that it's a union of husband and wife - be tolerated?
— Edwin Meese
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
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
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
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
Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!
— Tommy Cooper
Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
— Helen Rowland
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 think that every state in the union should recognize same-sex marriage.
— Cass Sunstein
I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.
— Hillary Clinton
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
A song like 'Once in a Lifetime' is inspired by my marriage - it's a good, life-changing happening in my life. I think when you find your once-in-a-lifetime love, that's what everybody's looking for.
— Keith Urban
My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.
— Salma Hayek
I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.
— Kajol
The rise of Breitbart is directly tied to being the voice of that center-right opposition. And, quite frankly, we're winning many, many victories. On the social conservative side, we're the voice of the anti-abortion movement, the voice of the traditional marriage movement, and I can tell you we're winning victory after victory after victory.
— Stephen Bannon
The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.
— Ezra Taft Benson
I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.
— Tori Amos
When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.
— Peter Capaldi
Marriage is a mystery, and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
— Aisha Tyler
We make no greater voluntary choice in this life than the selection of a marriage partner. This decision can bring eternal happiness and joy. To find sublime fulfillment in marriage, both partners need to be fully committed to the marriage.
— James E. Faust
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
If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else.
— Edmund White
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.
— Steve Carell
Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again!
— Karen Salmansohn
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
— Ogden Nash
The sweet companionship of eternal marriage is one of the greatest blessings God has granted to His children.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.
— Lady Gaga
Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.
— Margaret Cavendish
Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.
— Henry Rollins
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
Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
— Martin Freeman
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
— Doris Lessing
When you don't have access to a subject, and all you have is ex-members and critics, there is this gravitational pull toward telling a certain version of events. Scientology would say this, and they have a point, that it's like doing a portrait of a marriage in which you're only hearing from the ex-wife and not the ex-husband.
— Louis Theroux
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
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
— Joyce Brothers
Families are not merely constructs of outdated convention, and traditional marriage laws were not based on animosity toward homosexuals. Rather, I believe that the traditional family structure - centered on a lawful union between one man and one woman - comports with nature and with our Judeo-Christian moral tradition.
— Charles T. Canady
A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.
— Debra Winger
For someone to say that marriage is only about procreation is a joke. I didn't marry my husband to have children. I married my husband because I love my husband.
— Aisha Tyler
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
When I'm weak, you can be strong; when I'm strong, you can be weak. That's what I believe marriage is.
— Gisele Bundchen
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
— Jane Austen
I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.
— William Shatner
It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.
— Garcelle Beauvais
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
— Honore de Balzac
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
Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.
— Joe Rogan
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
My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.
— Hugh Hefner
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
I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.
— Hugh Hefner
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
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
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
For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
— Henrik Ibsen
I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself.
— Halle Berry
I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.
— George W. Bush
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
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
— Billy Connolly
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
No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
— H. L. Mencken
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
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
— George Bernard Shaw
That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do.
— Maxine Kumin
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
Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.
— Carl Honore
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
— Alexander Pope
Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.
— Dennis Miller
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
— Euripides
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
— Mae West
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
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
— Sam Levenson
She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.
— Henny Youngman
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
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
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
Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should ever have to conduct a marriage that is inconsistent with their religious beliefs. But I think as a civil institution, this issue's time has come and we need to move forward.
— Kay Hagan
There is a difference between civil partnerships and marriage. That difference does not mean one is better than another.
— John Sentamu
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
I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time.
— John Naisbitt
I'm 58 years old. I got married for the first time - it's about time, right? Growing up as a gay woman, you just don't ever think about that, and then I thought, about 10 years ago, 'You know, I think within 10 years gay marriage will be legal.' And here we are, 10 years later, making it legal.
— Martina Navratilova
I don't really care how or why Obama got to the right place on gay marriage. I'm just glad he got there.
— Mark McKinnon
The Constitution of the United States has absolutely nothing to say about a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. Were the federal courts to recognize such a right, it would be completely without constitutional basis.
— Newt Gingrich
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
— Alan King
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
— Barbara Bush
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
When I get married, it'll be no secret.
— Elvis Presley
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.
— Herbert Spencer
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
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
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
All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
— Raymond Hull
Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
— Yoko Ono
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
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
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
— Maria Callas
I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.
— Mickey Rooney
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
— Rita Rudner
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
— Gloria Steinem
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
— C. S. Lewis
My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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
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
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
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.
— Rick Wright
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
— Maggie Gallagher
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 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
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
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
God invented concubinage, satan marriage.
— Francis Picabia
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
— Marge Piercy
I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.
— Richard Pryor
The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.
— Eleonora Duse
Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.
— Sumner Redstone
Marriage isn't a carnival ride.
— Aisha Tyler
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
— George Bernard Shaw
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
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
— Iris Murdoch
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
— John Updike
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
Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.
— Jeff Bridges
I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.
— Anthony Weiner
Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us.
— Jon Heder
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
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
The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
— Dan Savage
You can't know about marriage until you try it.
— Greg Evigan
The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.
— Ellie Goulding
Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
There are going to be peaks and valleys in everything - in your marriage, in your job, in your life. So just enjoy the peaks and ride out the valleys. Just try not to do anything too rash.
— Ricky Schroder
I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
— Kareena Kapoor Khan
I met my wife in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years. That's a great old term, 'courting.' And we had to do it quietly, of course, because you would know the difficulties one might have with Indian parents. She was advised by her father that people in the West don't take marriage seriously.
— Glenn Turner
I had 53 years of happy marriage and two daughters. These were the best things that happened in my life.
— Henry Allingham
Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He's called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He's in favor of open borders.
— James Dobson
Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic.
— Jemima Khan
Singles have a purpose that is higher than any earthly relationship. Marriage is honorable, but so is being single.
— Monica Johnson
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
Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.
— Noah Feldman
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
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
I don't want to make any judgments, and I don't want to preach, but I'm hoping that marriage can work: that when people do fall in love, when people do find their soul mate, everyone sticks to it. It has the potential to be a very powerful thing, marriage.
— Jonathan Silverman
A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really.
— Richie Sambora
Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It's all about who you pick; in that first moment, did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who's more interested in being married than in getting married.
— Rob Lowe
My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long.
— Michael Douglas
My feelings on homosexuality are unequivocal. I have absolutely no problem with it whatsoever. My only reservation is marriage.
— Carl Paladino
After my second marriage failed... I said, 'You know, could I have a relationship with a man? A loving relationship with a man that would involve intimacy?' For a while, before I did get into a relationship, I saw, for a few years, either women or men. And I found that I could be attracted to both.
— Clive Davis
Just because marriage didn't work for us doesn't mean we don't believe in the institution. Just because our own marital track records are mixed doesn't mean our hearts don't lift at the sight of our daughters' Tiffany-blue wedding invitations.
— Sandra Tsing Loh
My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. The band broke up and the marriage dissolved, and my mother, my sister and I moved to Southern California. And I didn't see my dad a lot growing up; he was on the road a lot. I'd see him every couple years.
— Jenny Lewis
We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
— Ted Cruz
Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission.
— Meir Soloveichik
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
It means a lot to me, the sanctity of marriage.
— Darlene Love
An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.
— G. Willow Wilson
I am very proud to have kept my commitment to introduce the married couples' tax allowance. I think it will prove very popular. I think it's absolutely right that we recognise marriage in the tax system properly, and I would like to see that expanded.
— David Cameron
Romantic love came under attack, first from the Freudians and then from the neuroscientists, who said that being in love was a chemical reaction in the brain. Marriage is no longer seen as a lifetime commitment.
— Jane Ridley
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 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
We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.
— Ingmar Bergman
Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
— Susan B. Anthony
There are lots of different ideas, lots of different opinions about the First Amendment Defense Act and what it should be. There were a lot of different forms of it while I was on the Hill. But I would say that I agree that the decision on gay marriage does mean that we need to take some steps to defend religious liberty.
— Evan McMullin
Marriage is tough. I can tell my wife all day long that I love her, but it doesn't mean anything if you don't show that.
— Jeff Nichols
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
My advice to Robin is listen to your heart, do what you feel. Follow your heart in love and marriage as you would in careers, and you'll be fine. Robin has a great heart. He's a fabulous father.
— Alan Thicke
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
I don't regret any decision in my life... not my career, not marriage. Every experience has been so fulfilling in so many ways.
— Amrita Singh
Marriage is scary to me, man.
— The Weeknd
I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
— James Dobson
I think there was a time in my life, probably in college, that I wished every guy was gay because it meant more women for me! I don't know what everyone's problem with it is. I wish everyone was gay! That's always the way I thought about it. I have no issue with it. If I have to suffer through marriage, why shouldn't they?
— Donald Trump, Jr.
I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?
— Max Schmeling
Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels like the soul of our nation has been taken from us.
— David Jeremiah
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
We're used to boy meets girl, boy likes girl, instant attraction on TV. But you throw a son in there, you throw a marriage in there, and you've got some really good character stuff.
— Matt Passmore
Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life.
— Kajol
What sort of job can you hold in America in which it is safe to hold the personal conviction that same-sex marriage is wrong? The answer: there is no such job. Except Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. Then you're fine.
— Ben Shapiro
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
'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
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
— William Shakespeare
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
— Oscar Wilde
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
— George Bernard Shaw
I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have.
— Theresa May
I never even had a bachelorhood: I went straight from my parents' home to a marriage.
— Dick Van Dyke
Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so.
— Timothy Noah
The death of marriage has been announced so often and would seem so normal, in a sense. So what's surprising is the sheer longevity and tenacity of this institution.
— Alain de Botton
We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration.
— Alain de Botton