In this post, you will find great Marriage Quotes from famous people, such as Matt Damon, Kelly Preston, Jason Whitlock, Jeff Bridges, Francois Rabelais. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
I’d like to have a successful marriage, not for the sake of labelling or branding, but because I believe in the institution of marriage.
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.
You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman, but they understand that they are moving inevitably, catching up to the American public.
In marriage, someone has to be a giver and someone a taker. I am a taker who married a giver.
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.
I do think the secret to a good marriage is separate bathrooms.
The approach of recognizing marriage between two people, without limitations, responds to a problem of eliminating all types of discrimination in society.
Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.
I won’t have a traditional marriage; I don’t find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself.
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other’s faults.
I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don’t think of it as ‘I’m going to be with this person forever.’ Instead, I think of more like, ‘I’ll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I’ll re-evaluate.’
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.
I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.
No persons professing to be Christians should enter the marriage relation until the matter has been carefully and prayerfully considered from an elevated standpoint, to see if God can be glorified by the union.
Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
I have a very intense marriage.
I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
I believe in soul mates, in eternal love. Not eternal marriage.
Before, back in the ’50s, women didn’t have as many rights as men, so they had to be that stay-at-home wife and take care of the kids all day. But now, with marriage, it’s a partnership. It’s not like this old traditional marriage that it once was.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Where I stand comes from my upbringing and my faith: I’m 100 percent pro-life and I believe in traditional marriage.
Marriage is a great institution.
When people get married because they think it’s a long-time love affair, they’ll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without.
I like marriage. The idea.
Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It’s a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage – for life!
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.
I don’t see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.
I have a very realistic image of what marriage should be. It takes effort, but it shouldn’t be the hardest thing that you do.
Marriage is a gamble, let’s be honest.
I see marriage as a new beginning in my life.
On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I’m constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I’ve been on.
I have a mental age of about 17. Far too young for marriage.
OK, no marriage is perfect.
For someone to say that marriage is only about procreation is a joke. I didn’t marry my husband to have children. I married my husband because I love my husband.
Marriage is not all rainbows and butterflies; you have to give in to your partner’s whims every now and then, and that’s a two-way street.
I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn’t. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.
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.
I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.
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.
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.
I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it’s beautiful. I’m such a romantic, and I always have been.
I’ll say this: The media wasn’t invited to my marriage, and they’re definitely not invited into the divorce.
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Anyone who watched George W. and Karl Rove while the former was governor of Texas will recognize a familiar pattern. Like much of Bush’s social policy – from faith-based social services to railing against gay marriage – women’s issues are one of the bones they’ve decided they can throw to the Christian right.
Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.
Career and marriage don’t have to do anything with each other.
It makes no sense to me that my gay friends cannot get married to each other because a certain slice of Christianity doesn’t believe in gay marriage.
It’s not someone else’s responsibility to honor my marriage. It’s my responsibility.
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don’t agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!
I have celebrated Jamai Sasthi before marriage.
The argument that gay marriage doesn’t affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration.
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour – an almost neutral environmental effect coupled with the ability to travel substantial distances without disturbing anybody. The bike is the perfect marriage of technology and human energy.
In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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.
I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.
Marriage is an institution that existed before governments existed. It’s something that reflects nature and reflects God and God’s will for us. And both from the standpoint of faith and reason it makes all the sense in the world. And it’s beneficial for society.
When a marriage founders, this may well be cause for tremendous sadness, but it’s not a failure of spirit or character. People change, their goals and dreams alter, their ideas of themselves grow, or they just meet someone they like better.
There comes a crossroads in every marriage where you grow together or grow apart. I outgrew Len. He wanted me to be in that leather jumpsuit for the rest of my life and do nothing else. He constrained me. It got to a point where the marriage died or I did.
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she’s a householder.
Marriage was all a woman’s idea and for man’s acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
The great marriages are partnerships. It can’t be a great marriage without being a partnership.
My feelings on homosexuality are unequivocal. I have absolutely no problem with it whatsoever. My only reservation is marriage.
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.
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.
Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.
The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William‘s marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. ‘Wet‘ is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin’.
My parents are conservative. They really weren’t in support of us dating before marriage.
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.’
Same sex marriage, it’s not a big concern to me.
During last night‘s debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
I don’t think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.
Marriage is a wonderful thing.
I’m extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I’m not just going to leap into it, because that’s not good for anybody.
I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
It’s hard giving advice to a friend about their marriage. You never know if you’re saying too much or too little.
Before marriage, I was a very shy person with mood swings. But, now I can balance that and have become a better and stronger person.
My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. The band broke up and the marriage dissolved, and my mother, my sister and I moved to Southern California. And I didn’t see my dad a lot growing up; he was on the road a lot. I’d see him every couple years.
Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what’s going on in another person’s marriage.
Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.
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!
Compassion, not passion, keeps a marriage together.
I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.
Marriage is absolutely not something I’m scared of, but it isn’t necessarily the be-all and end-all.
It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it.
Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.
I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.
Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words.
The marriage of computing and connectivity without the shackles of being tethered to a location is one of the biggest disruptive forces of modern times.
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.
They say marriage will change you but it didn’t change me. Being in love changed me.
A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.
I loved being in love, I loved my marriage and being married and all that stuff.
I like getting married, but I don’t like being married.
Marriage is a sacrament, and the decision of what is a sacrament lies with the Church, not with Parliament.
When people say ‘marriage’ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.
My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Marriage has made me safer.
Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.
I never thought I’d spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I’d never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.
In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don’t know, but they do.
I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I’ve got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I’ve got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.
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.
Marriage is scary to me, man.
Marriage is the death of hope.
Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
I don’t believe in the institution of marriage.
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
When I get married, it’ll be no secret.
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.
If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.
I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
Marriage ain’t easy, but it’s great most of the time.
I wanted to be the first girl in my class to get married. From the seventh grade on, I used to write in my yearbook under each senior’s picture, ‘married’ or ‘engaged.’ I had marriage on the brain.
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
To us marriage is first, everything else is second.
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.
Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.
I always thought that marriage needs to happen at the right time, for the right reasons, and with the right person.
There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
I think marriage is beautiful, but I have mixed feelings about it.
I’ve always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.
The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.
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.
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
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.
I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good – which is the family.
I’ve always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
A band is like a marriage – you don’t know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.
Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates‘ specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion.
It is so calming, marriage.
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.
I feel that whoever isn’t feeling settled in their career won’t think about their marriage.
I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.
There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.
Issues over same-sex marriage and LGBT people in the PCUSA are not new: there is a 40-plus year history of arguments and tacit agreements over the issue of sexuality in the denomination, and the first openly gay minister in the PCUSA was ordained in 2011.
Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.
First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.
Within 18 months of my parents’ marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself as a gentleman but who was, in fact, nothing more than a devious adventurer.
To me, Steve was my Prince Charming. He was my happily ever after, and we got that. We got 14 years of marriage; we had the best, most fantastic, adventurous, wonderful life that you could imagine. And I was very happy with that.
Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or ‘the ability to vote with your feet.’ If you don’t support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol – don’t come to Texas. If you don’t like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don’t move to California.
I have married thriteen couples. I’m about to do a marriage next month.
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.
The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesn’t believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people.
My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married… disaster.
I’m now in my late 30s, and I’ve been thinking a lot about marriage and family. To be honest, I’ve decided to push aside thoughts of marriage and personal questions for now.
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
I’m 0 for 3 with marriage – the scoreboard doesn’t lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.
When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.
I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
I married beneath me, all women do.
My father was very big on marriage.
The other stuff of marriage can fade a little bit, but as long as you can laugh with your partner, that’s everything because that’s what remains at the end of the day. I think that’s how we pick our friends and that’s how we ultimately pick who we marry.
The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.
Gay marriage has jumped out of the closet on to the front page. Everyone from the president of the U.S. to retired four-star general Colin Powell is embracing the issue, now supported by most Americans. Still, a few people, like former First Lady Laura Bush appear to be conflicted.
I have become more and more afraid about marriage and parenting. I think it’s because I am getting older. Of course, there will be a lot to learn, and I also know that the experience will help in my acting.
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.
A relationship can only work if you work at it. Marriage is the most difficult thing you will do – you’ve got to really love each other to enjoy the same jokes, the same odours, the same behaviours every day.
Husbands are like fires – they go out when they’re left unattended.
President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage.
After marriage, every woman wants to settle down and have children. I have no regrets. I was occupied in my little world, enjoying each and every experience that came my way.
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.
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.
There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.
Gay rights are not primarily marriage rights, and for the millions who live in unaccepting places with no resources, dignity remains elusive. I am lucky to have forged meaning and built identity, but that’s still a rare privilege. And gay people deserve more, collectively, than the crumbs of justice.
Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man’s life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
Marriage is hard. I’m not gonna lie.
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.
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.
I don’t believe what I do outside my profession is anybody’s’ business. And that includes a personal thing like pregnancy or even marriage.
I’m proud of who I am. I am proud of my husband and our marriage.
I guess because the shows were activist in their own way – the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know – people understand me very well. They also understand there’s a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.
I think marriage is all about timing.
I’m not for gay marriage, but I’m not for discriminating against people.
A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.
Getting divorced didn’t sour me on the institution of marriage. I’ll tell you what I’ll never do: I’ll never get divorced again.
If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period… single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.
I have a lady, she’s a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We’re on the same page. Whenever that day happens when we’re not on the same page we’ll move forward with it. We’re interested in having our lives be our lives right now and not a third person’s vis-a-vis marriage and whatever that means.
I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don’t regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can’t have it all.
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
Even prior to marriage and motherhood, it’s always been about prioritising and focusing on what you can commit to. That’s been my approach to every aspect of my life, be it my relationships or my professional commitments.
My grandmother was energetic and fearless – a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.
It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.
I firmly believe in marriage. It’s a real important decision that takes a lot of dedication and time. If you’re thinking about divorce. You shouldn’t get married.
While religious institutions should be able to pick and choose which unions they bless, civil governments should issue marriage licenses to all couples.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
In my family, as in all dysfunctional families, instead of parents who act as strong and nurturing role models for their children, you get these needy people who use their children. I was the kid who tried to take on the marriage.
It’s very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship – whether it’s a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.
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.
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
I have a lot of respect for marriage.
I don’t know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.
Regency romances end in marriage; zombie stories end in the zombies being vanquished. ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ delivers both.
That’s one thing I don’t think people consider nowadays. They want to believe in the importance of marriage, boil it down to just a signature on a legal document. But that’s exactly what it is. If not, why not just get married without one?
The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
I don’t know why people say you can’t have a career and a marriage. Farhan and I loved each other so I didn’t see why it wouldn’t work.
Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage – the union between one man and one woman – has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation’s history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.
Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
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.
It’s about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.
I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn’t always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.
Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.
Marriage is a walk in the park compared to being a single mother or father. I’ll take that walk later.
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.
I think the idea of marriage is very romantic; it’s a beautiful idea, and the practice of it can be a very beautiful thing.
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!
I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don’t know that they can be recognised as marriage.
Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That’s really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.
Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.
My parents have been married for 42 years. Their marriage has been – from what I can see – a happy one.
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest – never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
The only day I remember of my parents’ marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.
Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who’s miserable in it – men and women alike – and anyone who’s suffered through difficult periods in marriage dreams of escape from it.
After marriage, the other man’s wife looks more beautiful.
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.
It is so beautiful that when you watch the film, the marriage between the visuals, the music and the storytelling is seamless.
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
I am against marriage, and I don’t give a fig for society.
Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.
For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.
Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.
No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.
I believe that if man and woman cherish the same ideals and think alike, then the marriage can be complementary to each other’s work instead of being a hindrance.
Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I’d pay.
Marriage doesn’t guarantee anything, it doesn’t come with perfect settings.
I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
Forever, it was just soccer – passion, life, love. Then I got married, and I had to transfer some of my energy. I want to be my best for my country, but I also made a really big promise and choice to be the best in my marriage. That has not always been the easiest thing to manage.
If I get married, I think I’d pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.
I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.
I’ve never thought about marriage or children.
Fear paralyses you – fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.
Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.
Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage.
Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.
I love marriage. I think it’s a wonderful institution and it’s the most important decision you make.
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.
I figure no matter how old you are, it’s always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
I’m so in favor of gay marriage that I even married a guy.
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.
I’ve just concluded – since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people, and enjoys an attractive countenance – thus if it becomes necessary, I shall travel to Washington, D.C., get down on my knee, and ask his hand.
Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light… You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.
The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman’s finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.
Marriage is amazing.
A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.
I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.
I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words ‘gay community.’ Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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.
Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us – the Supreme Court, President Obama – against traditional religion.
My sister is a lesbian and I want her to have that same feeling. A civil partnership is not the same as marriage. She’s in a serious relationship with a girl I am obsessed with. I would love her to marry her girlfriend because I love her so much.
After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.
For me, personally, marriage is a man and a woman living together.
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
‘Marley and Me’ was a book I was proud of and believed in, but I thought it would just have a modest audience because it is such a personal story about my marriage and my family.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
And my marriage was perfect when I wasn’t famous.
Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. ‘From each according to his ability, to each according to his need’ is the family’s practice as well as its theory. Even with today’s scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
I’m done with men… I’m going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don’t think I’m made for marriage.
It’s not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It’s something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.
Despite the vigorous policy and legal debates surrounding same-sex marriage, there is little disagreement about this: If the United States Supreme Court holds that states must sanction same-sex marriage, then Florida‘s contrary laws must fall.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
I don’t think Pierre Trudeau knew how to be a husband. I couldn’t stay in that marriage.
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
I like getting married, but I don’t like being married.
Do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don’t.
Dancing along with family members and old friends, especially during a marriage, is a memorable experience.
I did commit adultery, if adultery is having a relationship in a marriage with another woman. I learned from that.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.
I was a Christian. I didn’t want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.
A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.
Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it’s just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.
Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.
After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
I’ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
