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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
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
— Oscar Wilde
Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this.
— Henry Rollins
I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.
— Henry Rollins
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
Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.
— Hillary Clinton
Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?
— Hillary Clinton
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
— Barack Obama
I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.
— Barack Obama
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
My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way.
— Mitt Romney
Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.
— Mitt Romney
And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.
— Mitt Romney
Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.
— Marilyn Monroe
We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.
— Joyce Meyer
The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.
— Dolly Parton
Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves that is true. 
— Marianne Williamson
Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.
— Marianne Williamson
In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded of their failures and limited by the energies of another person. It is rife with judgment and blame.
— Marianne Williamson
Supporting the definition of marriage as one man and one woman is not anti-gay: it is pro-traditional marriage. And if support for traditional marriage is bigotry, then Barack Obama was a bigot until just before the 2012 election.
— Marco Rubio
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
— Voltaire
When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage - in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
— Lady Gaga
My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don't have one.
— Robert Kiyosaki
One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
— Rand Paul
I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
— Rand Paul
Marriage has always been a state and local issue.
— Rand Paul
I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.
— Rand Paul
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.
— Billy Graham
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
— H. L. Mencken
I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.
— Jeff Bridges
I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.
— Jeff Bridges
I love marriage.
— Jeff Bridges
In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.
— Jeff Bridges
Marriage has made me safer.
— Kate Winslet
I am a big believer in marriage.
— Kate Winslet
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
The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans.
— Elliott Abrams
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
When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage.
— Kevin Hart
There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.
— Ted Cruz
The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.
— Ted Cruz
The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.
— Ted Cruz
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
I don't think it's more difficult for actors to have a good marriage than anyone. I think, in the end, a really important component of any relationship is honesty, and it also comes down to luck.
— Cate Blanchett
I think marriage is all about timing.
— Cate Blanchett
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
When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.
— Ezra Taft Benson
If someone wants to marry you outside the temple, whom will you strive to please - God or a mortal? If you insist on a temple marriage, you will be pleasing the Lord and blessing the other party.
— Ezra Taft Benson
We live too long for one marriage.
— Yoko Ono
Marriage changes everything.
— Marilyn Manson
I'm totally against straight marriage - even though I'm married. I don't think heterosexual marriage is any of the government's business.
— Penn Jillette
It becomes dangerous for somebody who doesn't want their boss to know their sexual preference to use online networks to push for laws supporting gay marriage or same-sex partner rights if they can't do so with a pseudonym.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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
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 us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
— Bill Cosby
I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.
— Alanis Morissette
I was so ready to become a mom. Actually, I was ready secondarily to become a mom. I was so ready to have the intimacy and commitment of marriage.
— Alanis Morissette
I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.
— Shia LaBeouf
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
— Samuel Butler
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
It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.
— John Lydon
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
We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.
— Pope Francis
Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.
— Drew Barrymore
I've never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple - gay or straight - should be able to get married.
— Al Franken
Marriage is becoming sort of fake. It's almost like a handbag. Everybody wants the newest, greatest and latest. It becomes an event, and it's definitely a status symbol in our society. I'm not saying it shouldn't be; it absolutely should be - but you shouldn't be focusing on that.
— Rob Lowe
When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.
— Andie MacDowell
For me, it's sad to say, but I would probably have a spiritual marriage but not a legal marriage, because I think so much about marriage starts to become about finances. It has nothing to do with God or feelings or the romantic side of marriage. It's about who owns what, who gets what? So what's the point?
— Andie MacDowell
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
— Ambrose Bierce
A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.
— Tori Amos
It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself.
— Sylvester Stallone
When you genuinely feel like that was the right relationship, you're supposed to give it all you can. That's what marriage is about.
— Khloe Kardashian
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
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 you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise.
— Brad Paisley
There may be people in my audience who may not agree with me on some particular issue - you know, say, as a gun owner, they may not agree with me, or, you know, someone may not agree with me on a gay marriage topic. Any of those things. But those shouldn't be the reasons you listen to my music.
— Brad Paisley
Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.
— Jennifer Aniston
Marriage is wonderful.
— Jennifer Aniston
If we are going to realise our ambition of ending the harmful practices of FGM and forced marriage, the role of young people in pushing for change is crucial. We also need to ensure that everyone, from government to civil society, is playing their part.
— Theresa May
You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.
— Viggo Mortensen
There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.
— Jill Scott
I'm more afraid of marriage than death.
— Shakira
The truth is that I'm more afraid of marriage than of death.
— Shakira
I just don't find marriage a necessary step in a couple's life.
— Shakira
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
You will often be in despair. You will sometimes think it's the worst decision in your life. That's fine. That's not a sign your marriage has gone wrong. It's a sign that it's normal it's on track. And many of the hopes that took you into the marriage will have to die in order for the marriage to continue. 
— Alain de Botton
What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
— Alain de Botton
The romantic person instinctively sees marriage in terms of emotions, but what a couple actually gets up to together over a lifetime has much more in common with the workings of a small business. They must draw up work rosters, clean, chauffeur, cook, fix, throw away, mind, hire, fire, reconcile, and budget.
— Alain de Botton
To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.
— Alain de Botton
When you're unhappy in your marriage, your children are the ones who suffer.
— Christina Aguilera
I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.
— Gary Johnson
I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.
— Gary Johnson
Marriage is the hardest work you're ever going to do.
— Julie Andrews
The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before.
— Nancy Gibbs
You can block a marriage, but you cannot force a marriage.
— Emmanuel Macron
The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
— Adam McKay
For me, personally, marriage is a man and a woman living together.
— Angela Merkel
I never looked at my parents' marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, 'I gotta get me some of that!'
— Mike Birbiglia
I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of cynical about romance and marriage but ultimately embraced it. Because I feel like comedy is always cynical, inherently, because it's contrarian.
— Mike Birbiglia
It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.
— David Byrne
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
Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is, somebody owes somebody money.
— Goldie Hawn
I think that's what makes a successful marriage: a mindful sense of self and the ability to make clear choices to stay together or choices not to.
— Goldie Hawn
I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.
— Helen Fisher
In America, we are demanding everything from our marriage.
— Helen Fisher
Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.
— Helen Fisher
My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish.
— Alec Baldwin
I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.
— Alec Baldwin
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
Men are literally lying in bed with their wives when the marriage is essentially over, thinking, 'I've got to get the hell out of here', and have a fantasy woman in mind. Then you get divorced, meet a woman, marry her, and by the time all that goes by, you've aged a few years and are ready to go back to your ex-wife.
— Alec Baldwin
I like marriage. I feel very secure. It helps when you are in love with the person you are married to.
— Claire Danes
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
I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment.
— George Osborne
I have an American son and an American partner, so marriage might logistically make sense at one point. My partner is a stay-at-home father, so if he wants to be on my health plan, or tax wise, or maybe on paper we want to have our I's dotted and our T's crossed, but emotionally, neither of us really feels the need for it.
— Evangeline Lilly
I am a very basic person. I still believe marriage happens only once, and you have to sustain it.
— Anushka Sharma
I have done everything in my life very normally. And marriage is definitely there on my agendas in life. But I don't know when will it happen.
— Anushka Sharma
Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.
— George W. Bush
You know, Republicans should have a consistent philosophy. And if your philosophy is about limited government and not intruding in people's lives, you shouldn't just inconveniently take a social issue like gay marriage and say, 'Well, unless we think - actually we should be intruding your life.'
— Mark McKinnon
Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a union.
— Mark McKinnon
It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.
— Carrie Underwood
Marriage is hard. I'm not gonna lie.
— Aisha Tyler
Marriage is a blood sport. Marriage is jousting. It's disembowelment. It's just terrible, terrible visceral injuries. It's not for everybody.
— Aisha Tyler
I married my husband because I loved him, and I don't feel like there's anybody missing from our marriage, but when you think about this person that you love, and you think about what a wonderful thing it would be to bring another person like that into this world, I think that's the hardest part about all of it.
— Aisha Tyler
I believe that the essence of marriage is choosing someone who loves you for who you are, embraces everything about you, and building a life with that person. Whether that life is with children or without children - it's honestly immaterial to building a life with someone that you love fully.
— Aisha Tyler
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
Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
— Pope Benedict XVI
It is essential that God created men and women to be one, as it is said in the first chapters of the Bible. So I think even if our culture is against marriage as essential form of relations between human beings, between women and men. I think our nature is always present, and we can understand it if we will understand it.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.
— Jeb Bush
A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
— John Burroughs
Academia is very flexible, but I had a spouse who was very committed to being a completely full partner in our marriage. I think if you counted up how many hours each one of us logged in, he certainly gets more than 50%.
— Janet Yellen
I think marriage is a scary concept. It's a scary concept for anybody. I'm not sure where I sit with that.
— Hozier
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
When someone comes up to me and says, 'Mary, you helped save my marriage', or, 'Mary, you helped me get out of this abusive relationship', I'm in it, really in their lives. And I'm so passionate about my feelings, but also about showing people the way through theirs.
— Mary J. Blige
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
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
I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.
— Queen Latifah
Proponents of same-sex marriage regularly label opponents 'radical' and 'extremist.' However, given that no society in thousands of years has allowed same-sex marriage, it is, by definition, the proponents of same-sex marriage whose position is radical and extreme.
— Dennis Prager
By the time I had reached the age of 16, in the 10th grade, my parents, after 22 years of marriage, one day decided to get a divorce.
— Frank Abagnale
All I can think is that the owners of Chick-Fil-A have decided they have had enough, that they're just going to focus on selling chicken sandwiches to as many people as they can, and they figure that keeping their views about marriage to themselves is better than having a bunch of angry activists on your doorstep.
— Mike Gallagher
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
— Michel de Montaigne
I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.
— Brigitte Bardot
Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?
— Brigitte Bardot
I believe marriage is a human right, not a state right.
— Martin O'Malley
You have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a strong foundation of love.
— Robin Wright
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
I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.
— Salma Hayek
Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
— Bono
My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.
— Ben Carson
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
Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights.
— Robert Dallek
When Gingrich attacked CNN's John King for bringing up his alleged proposal of an open marriage to his second wife, Gingrich accused him of lowering the level of discourse in a presidential debate, suggesting that such a discussion is unworthy of consideration by voters.
— Robert Dallek
Vice President Biden's surprising declaration of unqualified support for gay marriage seems to have forced President Obama into a public endorsement of a controversial social issue. It is difficult not to suspect that Biden's pronouncement aimed to give the president some political cover.
— Robert Dallek
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
It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.
— David Duchovny
When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.
— Louis C. K.
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
— Mae West
If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right.
— Simon Cowell
I couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people.
— Simon Cowell
It is a mistake for women to think that life begins only with marriage. A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do.
— James E. Faust
Marriage is not easy. You have to decide to work. That's what it really comes down to: two people deciding to stay together or not.
— Darius Rucker
I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.
— Bob Newhart
If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.
— Bob Newhart
I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.
— Bob Newhart
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
When Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the same-sex marriage bill, my blood was boiling. I had been silent, but that night, Brad and I watched the news and saw all these young people pouring out on Santa Monica Boulevard venting their rage, and I said, 'I have to speak out.'
— George Takei
I think Donald Trump's interpretation of marriage is something that he himself doesn't really believe in. 'Traditional marriage' is where two people love each other, commit to each other, care for each other over the years. It is a meaningful ceremony, and his interpretation of that is not recognizing what real marriage is.
— George Takei
I'd like to think that, when I explain it, that Mr. Trump will understand marriage is defined by two people who love each other, commit to each other, and will care for each other through thick and thin.
— George Takei
When Brad and I got married in 2008, it got a lot of attention. And all the attention was over the fact that we were two men, but people were hardly conscious of the fact that we were entering into an interracial marriage. That's wonderful, because it was only 50 years ago with Loving v. Virginia that interracial marriages were made legal.
— George Takei
I spent most of my life from 24 to 31 at the office. I wasn't going to people's weddings I wasn't cultivating my marriage. I wasn't happy. 
— Megyn Kelly
Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.
— Megyn Kelly
My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.
— Nadia Comaneci
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.
— Michael Douglas
Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers.
— Michael Douglas
I try not to dwell too much on a bad marriage.
— Michael Douglas
My marriage and my families come certainly before my career.
— Michael Douglas
During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life.
— Michael Douglas
I have nothing against her, and in fact I'm very fond of my first wife. But we should have ended that marriage eight or 10 years earlier.
— Michael Douglas
It took me too long to realise that if you go to a marriage counsellor to resolve problems, it's in his interest to keep the marriage going.
— Michael Douglas
California is a bellwether state. California was the first state in the United States to overturn the laws against interracial marriage. It took 19 years for the rest of the country to come around to that point of view.
— Gavin Newsom
Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.
— Gavin Newsom
Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
— Gavin Newsom
It's like, 'Oh, well of course you want gay marriage, you're gay.' I think when heterosexual people are talking to their peers and they're like, 'This is an equal rights thing,' it's a little bit easier.
— Jillian Michaels
You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.
— Carly Fiorina
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 don't know about marriage as much as I do know that I'd be a great father.
— Tyler Perry
I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues.
— Walter Cronkite
I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.
— Albert Brooks
To me, marriage is really important and what we build families on. That's why gay marriage is really important.
— Margaret Cho
I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.
— Teri Garr
I think there's something unromantic about marriage. You're closing yourself off.
— Hugh Grant
I think marriage is only necessary if you've got children. It's quite nice for them.
— Hugh Grant
When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a 'good man' before they are all taken.
— Sheryl Sandberg
I 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
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
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?
— Tony Campolo
If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?
— Tony Campolo
Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.
— Tony Campolo
I can't imagine having a real personal thing, like divorce and marriage, all those things, being in the public eye. I try to not talk about anything personal, and then nobody has the fire to throw back at you, like 'You said this back then!'
— Kirsten Dunst
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
Getting a divorce is always horrible because you feel you've failed. Everyone hates to give up on a marriage. You think your family's broken up.
— Jerry Hall
The only reason I got married in 2003 was for my children. I had a therapist who said marriage is really a container for a family, and that made sense to me.
— Julianne Moore
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
I do think about marriage, but it's not the end-all goal.
— Chelsea Handler
With homosexual marriage gaining converts among the young, the party of the Moral Majority declines to stand with Chick-fil-A.
— Pat Buchanan
Well, you know, I just - I believe marriage should between a man and a woman.
— Victoria Osteen
There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart.
— Maajid Nawaz
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
Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.
— Lindsey Vonn
Everyone knows marriage is tough.
— Lindsey Vonn
I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.
— Sharon Stone
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.
— Michele Bachmann
I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.
— Michele Bachmann
Even after marriage, our home is important for us.
— Mahesh Babu
I was 21 and had been going out with my boyfriend for two years when I found out I was pregnant - despite being told by doctors that I was sterile. Jamie's father and I hadn't discussed marriage, and to me, it wasn't something to be entered into just to stop gossip.
— Joanna Lumley
In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.
— Colin Powell
We need a Congress that understands the sanctity of life, the sanctity of traditional values, the sanctity of traditional marriage.
— Thom Tillis
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
Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
— Edmund White
The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had legalized gay marriage, despite intense opposition from the religious right.
— Edmund White
I don't have to get married myself in order to campaign on behalf of gay marriage.
— Edmund White
I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they've shared their life for 20 or 30 years. 
— Edmund White
First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, 'It must be a good thing to fight for.'
— Edmund White
Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.
— Edmund White
Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight neighbours.
— Edmund White
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
My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.
— Mike Huckabee
Marriage has historically, as long as there's been human history, meant a man and a woman in a relationship for life. Once we change that definition, then where does it go from there?
— Mike Huckabee
Marriage should be reinforced, not redefined.
— Mike Huckabee
You can spend the day at work, but when you go home, and you're in the role of a father or a husband, you don't have to remind yourself that you shouldn't tell your wife to hold the messages. If you do, that marriage is not going to last very long.
— Hannah Simone
I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.
— Rashida Jones
Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.
— Rashida Jones
Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.
— Roseanne Barr
I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.
— Roseanne Barr
My mum told me, 'At that moment when you know you can't do both, the marriage and the kids, choose the marriage because you're going to be spending your whole lives together, so you have to put a lot of work and attention into the relationship.'
— Bryce Dallas Howard
People say, 'What's the secret to a marriage?' There's no secret - I think you get lucky.
— Steve Carell
I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be.
— Anna Kendrick
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
— Franz Kafka
Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.
— Diane von Furstenberg
Marriage was never a destination with me.
— Diane von Furstenberg
I think it's important to remember that you go into something like marriage knowing that you don't know very much about it at all. But I do look at the marriage of my mother and stepdad, and what makes it work for them is that it's a team effort.
— Justin Timberlake
It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.
— Natalie Cole
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 know the fairy-tale drill, especially from the Disney versions: the heroines endure awful stuff in rites of passage that lead to a joyous resolution of, usually, marriage to a prince. 'Into the Woods' follows that template, then asks, 'What happens after Happy Ever After?'
— Richard Corliss
But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together it's how our differences work together. 
— Michael J. Fox
I believe in the family. I believe in marriage, and I think it's such a great institution. I think men should be able to marry each other, and women should be able to marry each other.
— David Cameron
I'll say this: The media wasn't invited to my marriage, and they're definitely not invited into the divorce.
— Ryan Reynolds
I am a fan of marriage and a fan of being committed to the right person.
— Joan Collins
Having had five husbands, I guess I should know a thing or two about marriage.
— Joan Collins
It's such a strange marriage, a song and someone that sings it. When that works, it really works, and when it doesn't, it doesn't.
— Chris Stapleton
A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.
— Nancy Pelosi
I am not into marriage. You look at all the marriages breaking down and all the people cheating on their marriages, and you become cynical. Marriage is nothing but a label.
— Nargis Fakhri
I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.
— Mark Ruffalo
My first marriage ended after 24 years.
— Jerry Della Femina
If two people cannot live together, both should have the right to opt out of the marriage. In an ideal world, that would be an acceptable solution.
— Kapil Sibal
I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
— Ram Charan
I believe in the sanctity of marriage.
— Sam Brownback
Older couples bring obligations such as support payments and debt as well as decades of financial experience to a marriage.
— Jean Chatzky
At the time of my second marriage, my husband was in his early 50s, I was in my mid-40s, and we each had two kids. We maintained our individual accounts and opened one for the house. We each kick the same percentage of our incomes into the house account and have a joint credit card. But we pay for our children separately.
— Jean Chatzky
Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
— Adam Lambert
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
When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vignettes of the highlights of it - marriage, divorce, death, success, fame, loss. The up and the down and the up again.
— David Cassidy
Regency romances end in marriage zombie stories end in the zombies being vanquished. 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' delivers both. 
— Adam Cohen
In Hungary, if homosexuals would like to live together, they can do so under the civil code. But what we call marriage is exclusively for one man and one woman. We are a Christian country. That's a historical fact.
— Viktor Orban
My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.
— Chelsea Clinton
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The funny thing about 'Take Shelter' is that a lot of people talk about how it was allegory for the economy and things that were to happen. And that was so on the nose in the movie for me. I was like, 'That's obvious.' It's the other stuff about marriage and commitment and those other things that I spent the most time thinking about.
— Jeff Nichols
Marriage isn't about a collection of scenes over ten years of two people telling each other that they love each other. It's about commitment.
— Jeff Nichols
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Marriage can be tricky and challenging at times.
— John Rampton
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
I believe when there are so many forces pulling our society apart, we need more commitment to marriage, not less.
— Lisa Murkowski
Like the majority of Alaskans, I supported a constitutional amendment in 1998 defining marriage as only between a man and a woman, but my thinking has evolved as America has witnessed a clear cultural shift.
— Lisa Murkowski
I have voted in support of efforts in the Senate to enact a Constitutional amendment that would have limited marriage to one man and one woman only.
— Lisa Murkowski
I've got two young sons who, when I ask them and their friends how they feel about gay marriage, kinda give me one of those looks like, 'Gosh, Mom, why are you even asking that question?'
— Lisa Murkowski
Marriage is gonna be your stability through everything.
— Miranda Lambert