A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Votes: 7
Mignon McLaughlinDon't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. Votes: 3
Robert FulghumMarriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. Votes: 3
George Bernard ShawMarriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth. Votes: 3
Edwin Louis ColeIf you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. Votes: 3
Katharine HepburnIt is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better. Votes: 3
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMarriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine. Votes: 2
Honore de BalzacMen marry women hoping they'll never change. Women marry men hoping they will. Votes: 2
David MitchellMost marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other. Votes: 2
Ian FlemingStop explaining to others, people will only understand from their level of discernment. Votes: 2
Abhishek ShuklaComing together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. Votes: 2
Henry FordMarriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. Votes: 2
Virginie des RieuxFor a man, the baby completes the marriage. For a woman the baby completes herself. Votes: 2
Patrick NeateSamuel Johnson said a second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience,Kirkland said. Votes: 2
Mary Jo PutneyThe value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. Votes: 2
Peter De VriesLet the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. Votes: 2
Martin LutherHang out with successful people and you'll acquiresuccess characters Votes: 1
Aniekee Tochukwu EzekielThe most welcome and painful moments of the life is within marriage. Votes: 1
jahangir khosravi shakibThere can be no deceit in love, and if you find it, it never was Votes: 1
Henrietta Newton Martin B.Com LLB goldmedalist LLM goldmedalist MMS etc - Legal ConsultantThere can be no deciet in love, and if you find it, it never was Votes: 1
Henrietta Newton Martin B.Com LLB goldmedalist LLM goldmedalist MMS etc - Legal ConsultantOther things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage.
Christina, Queen of SwedenIt takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount SamuelMarriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
Christian Nestell BoveeMarriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
Georg C. LichtenbergWhen a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.
Mary WollstonecraftEach marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people.
Russell M. NelsonIn marriage you are neither the husband nor the wife; you are the love between two.
Sri Nisargadatta MaharajAccording to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.
Swami VivekanandaThe chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.
Alexandre Dumas-filsMarriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church.
Christopher WestMarriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.
Laurence J. PeterMany a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.
Bertrand RussellOn a baby of his own: You gotta be married first. That's my rule: marriage then baby!
Rob KardashianI hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
Beatrix PotterMarriage is by nature a covenant, Not just a private contract one may cancel at will..
Bruce C. HafenA life allied with mine, for the rest of our lives... that is the miracle of marriage.
Denis de RougemontSurely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life.
Diana TrillingI grew up very conservatively and traditionally. I wanted to save myself for marriage.
Linda D. ThompsonFor "I" to become "we" and yet remain "I," is one of the great challenges of marriage.
Nathaniel BrandenIt's not that marriage itself is bad; it's the people we marry who give it a bad name.
Terry McMillanI think I may be in love with you, Sophie," said Will. "Marriage could be in the cards.
Cassandra Claremarriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!
Eric Jerome DickeyTo be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.
Susan FaludiThe health of your marriage tomorrow will be determined by the decisions you make today.
Andy StanleyIt is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.
Elizabeth Cady StantonThe quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.
Friedrich NietzscheMutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
James ThurberMarriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.
Jonathan SacksWhy do Republicans hate gay marriage so much? They certainly don't hate gay prostitutes.
Margaret ChoThe wedding is where two people become one. The marriage is where they decide which one.
Robert BreaultMaybe there won't be marriage, maybe there won't be sex, but by God there'll be dancing!
Rupert EverettMarriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
Aisha TylerOnly a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.
Carolyn HeilbrunThere was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.
Deidre HallMarriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.
Federico FelliniMarriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree.
George Granville, 1st Baron LansdowneSophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.
Hector Hugh MunroTraditional marriage in the platform is the essential building block to our civilization.
Ken BlackwellLike a good marriage, trust on a team is never complete; it must be maintained over time.
Patrick LencioniA toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.
Toni BentleyThe mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse.
Olivia Wildeunlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.
Betty RollinWe told you this would happen, if gay marriage is legalized, then much chaos would follow.
Bill O'ReillyI was once involved in a same-sex marriage. There was the same sex over and over and over.
David LettermanWhat marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.
Mark TwainMarriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."
Michael NovakMaybe the point is that any marriage is work, but you may as well pick work that you like.
Mindy KalingMy husband always felt that a marriage and career don't mix. That's why he's never worked.
Phyllis DillerWithout the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.
Ravi ZachariasMarriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.
Swami VivekanandaFor in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.
AeschylusRepublicans are taking the defeat over Health Care as well as Tiger Woods took to marriage.
Bill MaherNewt Gingrich is against same-sex marriage. Well, actually, he's against same-marriage sex.
David LettermanWhen you say I committed adultery, are you stating before the marriage of 1996 or prior to?
Deion SandersBut marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer
Edith WhartonI think marriage is a good thing for children, because it gives them a feeling of security.
George MichaelFor parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.
Henry FieldingThere are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.
Iain Duncan SmithThe relationship, the marriage, the commitment, the partnership... This is the holy ground.
James TaylorHappy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress.
John LegendMarriage is an undertaking that requires focused time and attention to prepare effectively.
Laura M. BrothersonI don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.
Mikhail ProkhorovI really wanted to show [in "fences"] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
Viola DavisWhen marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.
Fanny KembleMarriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.
Jeanette WintersonMarriage? I don't know what I really think about marriage. I'm a bit confused on that issue.
Madonna CicconeLovers forget that after marriage and kids, it's no longer a 'relationship' - It's a family.
Siddharth KatragaddaThey spent the night in jail, where their progressive views on gay marriage served them well.
Ann CoulterIt's time for the Supreme Court to catch up to the American people and legalize gay marriage.
Bernie SandersUnable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
Charles BaudelaireUnable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.
Charles BaudelaireEvidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.
Ellen GlasgowI think the issue of marriage is a vitally important issue on which I would campaign heavily.
Eric AbetzHow could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?
John GrishamMarriage is sought and kept alive by a deep yearning to know another and be known by another.
John PierrakosI'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.
Lisa KleypasNothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.
Martin LutherWhen my marriage fell apart I started reevaluating my life and I started to call on the Lord.
Patricia MauceriWe have a marriage of people of various cultures coming together. It's not a joke. It's real.
Stevie WonderAny marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings - many of them abortive.
Storm JamesonMarriage is something I'd recommend everyone to try, if you find the right person, of course.
Vidya BalanMarriage is a very complicated machine. When it breaks down, you can't fix it with one screw.
Yvonne StrahovskiI want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.
Desmond TutuMarriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.
Fay WeldonPeople ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.
Jane AsherIn God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.
John MiltonWhile many governments and well-meaning individuals have redefined marriage, the Lord has not.
Neil L. AndersenMarriage was invented to make girls miserable. I will never get married again, not ever again.
Nujood AliThe difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different
Spencer W. KimballGender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.
Vaughn WalkerWomen--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.
Walter BagehotMarriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.
William CongreveIn a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.
Aldous HuxleyFor 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.
Barbara FeldonIf there was one ubiquitous recommendation about marriage it was this: "Don't go to bed angry."
Daniel KahnemanOur marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition - with the possible exception of closet space.
Gene PerretThe words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.
Jess C ScottWhat if marriage is really about making us more like Christ, not so much about making us happy?
Kirk CameronAt the beginning, your love supports your marriage. Later on, your marriage supports your love.
Larry ChristiansenYou are a sinner married to a sinner...and the happiest marriage is the union of two forgivers.
Skip HeitzigI had learned so much about marriage from Missy that I only had to get divorced two more times.
Terry BradshawWhere there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.
Arthur SchopenhauerThey say that adultery is the main thing that can damage a marriage, but it's not. It's boredom.
Barry CryerThere must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.
Charles SpurgeonIs marriage for ever? I think you get married with the intention that it will be, but who knows?
Courteney CoxMarriage is one of the most difficult things in the world and unfortunately sometimes they fail.
Demi MooreWriting a biography is not a love affair. It's not a marriage. It's a job, it's a piece of work.
Hermione LeeI believe that marriage is between one man and one woman, the same as I've believed all my life.
Mark NeumannThe rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership.
Robert Green IngersollMarriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far reaching effects...
Spencer W. KimballA little reminder to those who don't back Obama and gay marriage. It's probably cause you're gay.
Barack ObamaActually, I have to say that I don't believe in having a sexual realtionship outside of marriage.
Brian LittrellTo have a successful marriage, a man must, on a fundamental level be scared shitless of his wife.
Dustin HoffmanMarriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.
H. G. WellsTrue charity ought to begin in marriage, for it is a relationship that must be rebuilt every day.
James E. FaustWhoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhen she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets.
Junot DiazModern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.
Langdon Elwyn MitchellThe gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage.
Mary QuantMarriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next
Roger ScrutonWomen hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.
Bettina ArndtMarriage isn't a 50-50 proposition very often. It's more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.
Billie Jean KingA good marriage can be ruined by poor communications - and by forgetting to put the lid back down.
Gene SimmonsGenerally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship.
Gloria AllredStaying in a marriage without love is like serving a life sentence with an incompatible cell mate.
Jeanne PhillipsI grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.
John DarnielleLearning unconditional love helped me have healthier relationships, including my current marriage.
Karrine SteffansWomen want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.
Mae WestA princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
Walter BagehotIf everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed?
Zoë HellerShe knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
Zora Neale HurstonMarriage is an intimate relationship between two people. It is a bad idea to involve a third party.
Amy DickinsonLove means never having to say you're sorry. Marriage means apologizing when you know you're right.
Dana GouldWe would be more American on the day we permitted same-sex marriage than we were on the day before.
David Blankenhornto be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!
Fanny BurneyImpersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.
George Jean NathanThe worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all other men are just as easy to fool.
H. L. MenckenIt is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.
Harry Emerson FosdickI can't imagine the biggest blow to me was that marriage not working out. That just flipped me out.
Howard SternMarriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.
Joey RamoneMarriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
Michel de MontaigneThe formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.
Nancy EtcoffA system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyMarriage is a plastic flower - marriage is an institution. And who wants to live in an institution?
RajneeshIf there was more courting in marriage, there'd be fewer marriages in court. Date your mate. Today.
Rick WarrenHonor, riches, marriage-blessing Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you!
William ShakespeareIn or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
Boyd K. PackerGay marriage should be legalized in america because gay men are the only men who want to be married.
Chuck KlostermanNo marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
Elisabeth ElliotMarriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
Gloria SteinemI've been married twice and I've tried to make it work but I feel I haven't had a real marriage yet.
Jennifer LopezIt was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.
Karen Joy FowlerMarriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
Khalil GibranI'm okay with multinational marriage, foreigners are also alright. Mixed blood babies are so pretty.
LeeteukMarried people should be best friends; no relationship on earth needs friendship as much as marriage
Marion D. HanksGod's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage
Mark TwainThe health of marriage and the health of society are bound together; as one goes, so goes the other.
Max AndersSome women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.
Myrtle ReedFor the sake of your marriage, get a king-size bed. And if you really want to stay married, get two.
Ray RomanoGiving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage.
Robert WrightMarriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
Susan B. AnthonyA marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
Terry PratchettI was obsessed with The Who. I would have accepted a marriage proposal from Roger Daltrey on the spot. I went to all of their shows in San Francisco and some in L.A. That was as close as I got to being a groupie. Votes: 1 Jennifer Egan
Marriage is something that needs to be worked on every day. I don't know if I'm the one to give marital advice since I've only been married for a little over a year, but marriage is certainly easier if you are open, trusting and loving. Votes: 1 Emily Blunt
I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage. Votes: 4 Vidya Balan
I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage. Votes: 1 Lynn Johnston
But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest. Votes: 4 Lord Byron
My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other. Votes: 1 Marina Abramovic
Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack. Votes: 3 Todd Tiahrt
I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage. Votes: 2 Jim Talent
Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. Votes: 1 Dora Russell
Arranged Marriages don't always have to be risky. Get to know your future in-laws. She's bound to be like one of them. Votes: 5 Siddharth Katragadda
I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking. Votes: 1 Teri Garr
Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end. Votes: 8 Matt Taibbi
In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them. Votes: 1 Toni Braxton
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. Votes: 3 Marilyn Monroe
In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today. Votes: 1 Walter Lang
I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some understanding that I was being born biracial into a world that was still very difficult for interracial marriages and biracial children. Votes: 1 Natasha Trethewey
Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us. Votes: 1 Anne Lamott
The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia. Votes: 1 Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.' Votes: 3 Amanda Bynes
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. Votes: 6 Sylvester Stallone
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash. Votes: 1 Joyce Brothers
I was born in Belgium on 6 November 1932. I am married to Mira Nikomarow and have five children: Michele, Anne, Georges, from a first marriage with Esther Dujardin, and Sarah, Helene from a second one with Danielle Vindal. Votes: 1 Francois Englert
I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others. Votes: 4 Princess Margaret
If you look at attitudes today and where they are headed, it's clear to me that supporting equal rights, including the rights to civil marriage, is a net positive for winning elections, as well as the right thing to do. Votes: 4 Ken Mehlman
If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it. Votes: 3 Carol Ann Duffy
I don't see the point in marriage: if you make a commitment, you make a commitment. Fidelity is important to me; it's about honouring that commitment. Votes: 1 Greg Wise
We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries. Votes: 1 Pete Coors
There are many deaf people who couldn't imagine living in a marriage without someone who doesn't speak their language. For me, I believe that hearing or deaf is fine as long as both parties are willing to communicate in each other's language. But if there's no communication, then the marriage, I believe, will be difficult if not doomed. Votes: 1 Marlee Matlin
There are many deaf people who couldn't imagine living in a marriage without someone who doesn't speak their language. For me, I believe that hearing or deaf is fine as long as both parties are willing to communicate in each other's language. But if there's no communication, then the marriage, I believe, will be difficult if not doomed. Votes: 3 Marlee Matlin
There are many deaf people who couldn't imagine living in a marriage without someone who doesn't speak their language. For me, I believe that hearing or deaf is fine as long as both parties are willing to communicate in each other's language. But if there's no communication, then the marriage, I believe, will be difficult if not doomed. Votes: 1 Marlee Matlin
It's always so hard when people assume someone cheated or broke up a marriage, when the truth may actually be much more complicated. Votes: 1 Christian Borle
My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage. Votes: 1 Patrick White
In Afghan culture, you don't date - you marry. Even talking to boys before marriage brings great shame to your family. Votes: 3 Azita Ghanizada
Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it is not an isolated one. His administration has been making pro-gay noises for some time; his demographic in the upcoming election is young and educated, precisely the group that favours equality for the LGBT community. Votes: 2 Edmund White
When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage. Votes: 4 Kevin Hart
If you have a difficult marriage, it's the hard times that make it better. If you have a relationship, it's the hard times that actually make it better, and that goes for life as well. Votes: 4 Kerry Stokes
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. Votes: 1 Peter De Vries
I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out. Votes: 3 Agnes Macphail
The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage. Votes: 2 Gene Simmons
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. Votes: 2 Jennifer Aniston
After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change. Votes: 1 Manju Warrier
When a couple gets to the last stage, one or both partners may have an affair. But an affair is usually a symptom of a dying marriage, not the cause. The end of that marriage could have been predicted long before either spouse strayed. Votes: 3 John M. Gottman
Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well. Votes: 4 Charles Bukowski
In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage. Votes: 3 John Milton
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.' Votes: 1 Nancy Pearcey
If you look at attitudes today and where they are headed, it's clear to me that supporting equal rights, including the rights to civil marriage, is a net positive for winning elections, as well as the right thing to do. Votes: 3 Ken Mehlman
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. Votes: 5 George Eliot
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. Votes: 1 Joseph B. Wirthlin
There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage. Votes: 2 Alexander Theroux
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. Votes: 3 Marianne Williamson
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure. Votes: 2 Herbert Samuel
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success. Votes: 3 J. Paul Getty
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. Votes: 3 Faith Hill
Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean. Votes: 1 Geoffrey Chaucer
For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited. Votes: 2 Robert Rainy
The first year of marriage is like wet cement - the impressions made in it are much harder to change once it has set. Votes: 2 Robert Wolgemuth
When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early. Votes: 3 Courteney Cox
I just read 'The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.' To be married 25 years, you have to put as much energy as I put into being an actor or being a great football player into being a better husband and a better father. Votes: 0 Terry Crews
The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that. Votes: 1 Tamae Watanabe
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. Votes: 2 Ruth Graham
In marriage, someone has to be a giver and someone a taker. I am a taker who married a giver. Votes: 1 Robert Preston
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. Votes: 4 Pearl S. Buck
The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees. Votes: 2 Demi Moore
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. Votes: 1 Pearl S. Buck
The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about. Votes: 4 Bruce Forsyth
I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know anybody who's married for a long time who hasn't somehow made room in their love story for the hate and resentment that they sometimes feel toward each other. Votes: 2 Elizabeth Gilbert
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. Votes: 2 Rand Paul
It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain. Votes: 3 Meg Ryan
Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage. Votes: 4 John le Carre
I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship. Votes: 1 Patricia Arquette
I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage. Votes: 3 Connie Britton
And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way. Votes: 3 John Boehner
Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage. Votes: 3 Hedy Lamarr
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. Votes: 1 Noah Feldman
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. Votes: 1 James E. Faust
People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it's really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other's pockets; of it being a relationship, a marriage, a family. Votes: 3 Dean Wareham
A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh. Votes: 3 Tori Amos
In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity, an institution which is damned ill-suited to a being who with his usual modesty likes to regard himself as the 'image' of God. Votes: 3 Adolf Hitler
We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife. Votes: 3 William Shatner
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. Votes: 4 Ellen Key
There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage. Votes: 2 Alexander Theroux
I learned that day that there is no more lonely state than being in a lonely marriage. Votes: 3 Julie Metz
I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage. Votes: 1 Jim Crace
I yearned for a long, happy marriage with one person. Votes: 1 Ginger Rogers
I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership. Votes: 1 Carson Daly
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce. Votes: 1 P. J. O'Rourke
In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be. Votes: 2 Jane Fonda
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. Votes: 6 Alan King
I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children. Votes: 2 Penelope Cruz
Daisy has a unique spirit. A warm and romantic nature. If she is forced into a loveless marriage, she will be devastated. She deserves a husband who will cherish her for everything she is, and who will protect her from the harsher realities of the world. A husband who will allow her to dream." -Westcliff Votes: 2 Lisa Kleypas
I just read 'The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.' To be married 25 years, you have to put as much energy as I put into being an actor or being a great football player into being a better husband and a better father. Votes: 3 Terry Crews
My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20. Votes: 1 Mary Wesley
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. Votes: 1 Gloria Steinem
My parents divorced after 25 years of marriage. Votes: 1 Jonathan Evison
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. Votes: 1 Dennis Prager
Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else. Votes: 2 Josh Turner
Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue. Votes: 4 Malcolm Turnbull
I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked. Votes: 7 Gerard Way
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. Votes: 5 Alana Stewart
Corresponding to the image of a monotheistic God is monogamous marriage. Marriage based on exclusive and definitive love becomes the icon of the relationship between God and his people and vice versa. Votes: 2 Meir Soloveichik
The doctrine of marriage depends on Genesis being true. If there's an absolute authority, and if God's the Creator, He made one man and one woman. Jesus came and said that marriage is between a man and woman. If Genesis is not true, we're just animals, and marriage is just whatever you want to make it to be. Votes: 2 Ken Ham
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband. Votes: 1 Elsa Maxwell
Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord. Votes: 3 Jean Giraudoux
When you realise that money doesn't actually make you happy, it's a quick fix to have things you've always wanted, but then when you have it, you realise that's not what actually makes you happy. It's more about having a great marriage and happy children; that's what life's all about. Votes: 2 Shane Filan
The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman. Votes: 1 Billy Graham
Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes, and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies. Votes: 2 John Sentamu
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. Votes: 2 Sylvester Stallone
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. Votes: 1 Soren Kierkegaard
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! Votes: 1 William Hazlitt
My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other. Votes: 1 Marina Abramovic
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about. Votes: 1 Katharine Hepburn
Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage? Votes: 1 Howard Stringer
The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership. Votes: 2 Helen Mirren
It's nice to be able to work; I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it. Votes: 1 Joan Cusack
In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them. Votes: 3 Toni Braxton
It's nice to be able to work; I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it. Votes: 3 Joan Cusack
It's lovely being a parent and being in a strong marriage with somebody who is your best friend. Votes: 3 Johnny Vegas
I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race. Votes: 1 Ezra Cornell
The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman. Votes: 1 Billy Graham
My marriage was breaking up, and my marriage with Chong was breaking up. I had to come back and kind of start on my own again. Votes: 3 Cheech Marin
The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally. Votes: 3 Nancy Pearcey
My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics. Votes: 1 Jared Harris
I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me. Votes: 1 Charlize Theron
President David O. McKay (1873-1970) observed that too many couples come to "marriage looking upon the marriage ceremony as the end of courtship instead of the beginning of an eternal courtship. ... Love can be starved to death as literally as the body that receives no sustenance. Love feeds upon kindness and courtesy" Votes: 4 David O. McKay
I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way. Votes: 3 Elizabeth Edwards
There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage. Votes: 1 Ted Cruz
Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship. Votes: 2 Dada Vaswani
There are many deaf people who couldn't imagine living in a marriage without someone who doesn't speak their language. For me, I believe that hearing or deaf is fine as long as both parties are willing to communicate in each other's language. But if there's no communication, then the marriage, I believe, will be difficult if not doomed. Votes: 1 Marlee Matlin
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. Votes: 3 Isadora Duncan
Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her. Votes: 1 Gavyn Davies
I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved. Votes: 3 Gary Chapman
American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them. Votes: 3 Florence King
Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners. Votes: 1 Rowan Williams
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. Votes: 1 Peter De Vries
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. Votes: 1 Peter De Vries
I was made to believe there was a plan in place for ending Donald's previous marriage. I pulled away because I wanted to allow him the time to deal with his wife. Votes: 1 Marla Maples
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. Votes: 1 Brendan Behan
Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance. Votes: 4 Charlize Theron
You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time. Votes: 1 Jenna Fischer
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. Votes: 3 Andie MacDowell
If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure. Votes: 3 Phil McGraw
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. Votes: 1 Sandra Tsing Loh
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. Votes: 3 Sandra Tsing Loh
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. Votes: 1 David Jeremiah
I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages. Votes: 1 Casey Wilson
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. Votes: 3 Groucho Marx
It's so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work. Votes: 3 Courteney Cox
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. Votes: 2 Jane Austen
If you have a difficult marriage, it's the hard times that make it better. If you have a relationship, it's the hard times that actually make it better, and that goes for life as well. Votes: 3 Kerry Stokes
Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families. Votes: 1 Kendrick Meek
I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage. Votes: 1 Connie Britton
Corresponding to the image of a monotheistic God is monogamous marriage. Marriage based on exclusive and definitive love becomes the icon of the relationship between God and his people and vice versa. Votes: 1 Meir Soloveichik
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? Votes: 1 Tony Campolo
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. Votes: 3 Ian Mckellen
I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general. Votes: 1 Leah Ward Sears
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. Votes: 1 John Lyly
My dad is from Japanese descent, my mom is from Swedish descent and, through marriages and divorces, a pretty multicultural family - a lot of Spanish speakers in the family. Votes: 3 Cary Fukunaga
If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise. Votes: 3 Kate Christensen
It's lovely being a parent and being in a strong marriage with somebody who is your best friend. Votes: 3 Johnny Vegas
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. Votes: 1 Brendan Behan
I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it? Votes: 2 Nora Ephron
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. Votes: 3 Jane Austen
The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ. Votes: 3 John Piper
Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes. Votes: 1 Saina Nehwal
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. Votes: 1 John Steinbeck
I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years. Votes: 3 Darrell Royal
Marriage, at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40. Votes: 1 Amanda Seyfried
After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate. Votes: 1 Mel Gibson
The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage. Votes: 1 Will Self
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. Votes: 1 Bob Newhart
I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed. Votes: 6 Kirstie Alley
I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children. Votes: 1 Penelope Cruz
Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty. Votes: 1 Hubert H. Humphrey
They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. Votes: 2 Clint Eastwood
Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men. Votes: 3 Marilyn Monroe
I think there are some people in life who are not marriage material and Chris is one of them. Votes: 3 Sharon Gless
One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make. Votes: 3 Max Lucado
Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life. Votes: 2 Tony Dorsett
My characters always start well in movies. Almost every movie I've done starts with a happy marriage, it's all beautiful, wealthy, whatever... and then of course my husband leaves me, and everything falls apart. Votes: 1 Carole Bouquet
I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked. Votes: 1 Gerard Way
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. Votes: 1 Martin Luther
I didn't get married until I was forty because I wanted to be stable when I got married. I think I just avoided my first marriage and went right to the second. It's sort of how I see it. When you're young, just trying to make it, and trying to find your way in the world, and figure things out... being married is not easy. Votes: 1 Kurt Fuller
For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy. Votes: 1 Erma Bombeck
If it's not working before you get married, marriage isn't going to fix it. Votes: 3 Courtney Thorne-Smith
My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend. Votes: 1 Rodney Dangerfield
Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over preserving an actual marriage. Votes: 3 Dan Savage
In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow. Votes: 2 Iyanla Vanzant
As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility. Votes: 1 Dick Van Dyke
I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business. Votes: 1 Katherine Jenkins
And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way. Votes: 1 John Boehner
Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else. Votes: 1 Josh Turner
Again, our marriage problems are not really marriage problems. They are heart problems. They are God problems. Our lack of intimacy with God causes a void that we try to fill with the frailest of substitutes. Like wealth or pleasure. Like fame or respect. Like people. Like marriage. Votes: 3 Francis Chan
We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem. Votes: 3 Ernest Istook
When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise. Votes: 1 Brad Paisley
Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit. Votes: 5 Madeleine Stowe
Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? Votes: 1 Rita Rudner
The marriage relationship is one of God's creations for building up people. It gives husbands and wives the chance to minister to an immortal human being in a uniquely intimate fashion. To enjoy the meaningfulness of marriage, then, requires a once-made but ongoing commitment of mutual ministry to our mates and the more we seize them, the more meaning our marriage will have. Votes: 3 Larry Crabb
In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship. Votes: 2 Tim Allen
The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave. Votes: 2 Rick Santorum
But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for? Votes: 3 Robert Frost
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. Votes: 1 Joseph Campbell
The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great. Votes: 1 Liz Smith
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. Votes: 1 William Shakespeare
My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture. Votes: 1 Paul Thomas Anderson
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. Votes: 1 Socrates
The best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There was even a kind of necessary tension, a certain tautness between the partners that gave the marriage strength, like the tautness of a full sail. You went forward on it. Votes: 3 Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I made an awful mess of my first marriage. It was hard to live with me being me. I was so abnormal. I mean, most writers struggle. I hadn't struggled. I couldn't suddenly go down to the PEN Club and behave like a normal human being, because most of those guys were struggling to make a couple of thousand pounds a year. Votes: 1 John le Carre
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. Votes: 1 Rita Rudner
The sweet companionship of eternal marriage is one of the greatest blessings God has granted to His children. Votes: 1 Joseph B. Wirthlin
Giving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage. Votes: 2 Robert Wright
Some of the best advice I got from a close friend is marriage is always looked at from the world as 50/50 as to working together to make that 100 percent. Votes: 1 Brian Littrell
I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be. Votes: 2 Joel Osteen
Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation. Votes: 1 Rick Wright
All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. Votes: 1 Raymond Hull
A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man. Votes: 3 E. M. Forster
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. Votes: 2 Joseph Campbell
I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them. Votes: 2 John Travolta
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten. Votes: 5 Dick Gregory
Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage. Votes: 1 Zig Ziglar
Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage. Votes: 1 Zig Ziglar
I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage. Votes: 2 Rob Delaney
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. Votes: 1 Hesiod
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? Votes: 3 Andie MacDowell
I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it. Votes: 1 Shaun Cassidy
My feelings on homosexuality are unequivocal. I have absolutely no problem with it whatsoever. My only reservation is marriage. Votes: 3 Carl Paladino
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. Votes: 5 Benjamin Franklin
I just read 'The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.' To be married 25 years, you have to put as much energy as I put into being an actor or being a great football player into being a better husband and a better father. Votes: 4 Terry Crews
No matter how great the initial chemistry is, if your values are on two different pages, the odds of your marriage working decrease significantly. Votes: 3 Chana Levitan
No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage. Votes: 1 Keith O'Brien
At the end of the day, I know that I would rather be alone and occasionally lonely and unhappy than in a miserable marriage and lonely and unhappy all the time. I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it. Votes: 4 Alana Stewart
I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage. Votes: 1 Sade Adu
There have been reports of many child marriages taking place in the Malabar region in Kerala, especially among the Muslim community. However, under Muslim Personal Law, a girl can be married once she attains puberty, and hence we cannot say that such marriages are not valid. Votes: 1 Girija Vyas
I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage. Votes: 4 Mark Ruffalo
Rooney was like marrying a high school sweetheart. And then you're like, 'I think we need some time to see other people,' and those other people are new musicians. Starsystem is like a new marriage with new musicians. Votes: 4 Robert Coppola Schwartzman
A bad marriage is worse than no marriage at all. Votes: 3 Neil Clark Warren
The sacrament of marriage is based on a man and woman. Votes: 5 Newt Gingrich
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. Votes: 3 Robert Dallek
In America, we are demanding everything from our marriage. Votes: 4 Helen Fisher
Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack. Votes: 1 Todd Tiahrt
I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage. Votes: 2 Rob Delaney
Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion. Votes: 1 Imran Khan
My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected. Votes: 4 Stockwell Day
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. Votes: 2 Mark McKinnon
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. Votes: 2 Ruth Graham
Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage. Votes: 3 Hedy Lamarr
You know, there were major problems in my marriage. Votes: 1 Hulk Hogan
Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit. Votes: 1 Madeleine Stowe
Every three or four shows, we have somebody that will come up onstage and propose marriage. Votes: 4 John Tesh
Marriage can be tough. It really is. But God is calling you to do everything you can. It's just not you and your spouse. There's a third person in your marriage. And God would like to bless and protect that marriage, and give you many fruitful days ahead. Votes: 1 Tim Huelskamp
The ultimate purpose of marriage is not to make us happy but to glorify God. Votes: 4 Nancy Leigh DeMoss
There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find. Votes: 3 Nicholas Sparks
My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved. Votes: 4 Jamie Lee Curtis
The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology. Votes: 3 Salvatore J. Cordileone
The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave. Votes: 1 Rick Santorum
I respect marriage, and I think it's beautiful that people do it. But for me, more important than anything is having a peaceful life and a peaceful home. Votes: 3 Camila Alves
The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell. Votes: 1 Jennifer Garner
I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage. Votes: 1 Keith O'Brien
My greatest concern is that Mitt Romney seldom addresses the social issues publicly... I'm referring to the sanctity of human life, the traditional definition of marriage, and religious liberty. Votes: 2 James Dobson
My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage. Votes: 1 Patrick White
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. Votes: 8 Omar Khayyam
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? Votes: 1 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? Votes: 1 Tony Campolo
My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture. Votes: 1 Paul Thomas Anderson
I'm totally against straight marriage - even though I'm married. I don't think heterosexual marriage is any of the government's business. Votes: 3 Penn Jillette
You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me. Votes: 6 Harry Connick, Jr.
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. Votes: 1 Rita Rudner
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Votes: 6 Mignon McLaughlin
As a teenage daughter hears her sweet mother plead unto the Lord that her daughter will be inspired in the selection of her companions, that she will prepare herself for a temple marriage, don't you believe that such a daughter will seek to honor this humble, pleading petition of her mother, whom she so dearly loves? Votes: 4 Thomas S. Monson
Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people. Votes: 3 Steve Chabot
Mr. Peanut' is not about a man who dreams of killing his wife; that's jacket copy, to me. 'Mr. Peanut' is about the dynamism of marriage and the distances - some tragic, some redemptive - that marriages travel over time, and those travels ain't always pretty. Votes: 3 Adam Ross
If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise. Votes: 1 Kate Christensen
In true marriage there must be a union of minds as well as of hearts. Emotions must not wholly determine decisions, but the mind and the heart, strengthened by fasting and prayer and serious consideration, will give one a maximum chance of marital happiness." Votes: 3 Spencer W. Kimball
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! Votes: 1 William Hazlitt
The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things. Votes: 1 Theodore Zeldin
Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge. Votes: 1 Bill Cosby
I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages. Votes: 1 Alana Stewart
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband. Votes: 1 Elsa Maxwell
If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all. Votes: 5 Richard Bach
Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains. Votes: 1 Martin Seligman
In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail. Votes: 2 Gabrielle Union
In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail. Votes: 2 Gabrielle Union
Asked by reporters about his upcoming marriage to a forty-two-year-old woman, director Roman Polanski told reporters, `The way I look at it, she's the equivalent of three fourteen-year-olds.' Votes: 3 David Letterman
Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection. Votes: 1 James McGreevey
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. Votes: 1 John Fowles
My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other. Votes: 3 Marina Abramovic
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage. Votes: 4 Gertrude Stein
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage. Votes: 2 Gertrude Stein
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. Votes: 4 Neil Simon
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. Votes: 3 Sandra Bullock