Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
~By Robert Graves ~
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
~By Alan King ~
I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
I mean, we had on our show, we had marriages, divorces and other stuff going on. And that was just me.
~By Harvey Korman ~
It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it.
~By Dick Smothers ~
When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
~By Queen Victoria ~
Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.
~By Richard Harris ~
That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.
~By Jesse Helms ~
Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked.
~By Marta Kristen ~
After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced. So that's kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like he's going to be a bust in Detroit.
~By Terry Bradshaw ~
No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.
~By Dick Morris ~
My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
~By Ed Case ~
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
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.
~By Jim DeMint ~
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.
~By Timothy Murphy ~
There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side.
~By Lynn Redgrave ~
I'm not a marriage expert, quite clearly.
~By Cathy Freeman ~
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
~By Henry Fielding ~
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
~By Franz Kafka ~
Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.
~By Morton Hunt ~
I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.
~By James Talent ~
In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.
~By Marlo Thomas ~
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
~By Francois Rabelais ~
For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.
~By Robert Bolt ~
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.
~By Ron Paul ~
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death.
~By Jennifer Dunn ~
Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.
~By Drew Barrymore ~
It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
~By Gavin MacLeod ~
I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.
~By Bill Frist ~
Marriage is obsolete and a trap.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
~By Rita Rudner ~
I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.
~By Andrew Cuomo ~
Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.
~By Joe Moore ~
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
~By Maria Callas ~
We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God.
~By Amy Levy ~
Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
~By Alan King ~
Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.
~By Rachel Hunter ~
I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
~By Kate Adie ~
All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
~By Raymond Hull ~
Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.
~By Patricia Arquette ~
Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.
~By Mary Wesley ~
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.
~By Richard Armour ~
I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks.
~By Anthony Holden ~
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
~By Gabriel Garcia Marquez ~
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.
~By Helen Reddy ~
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
~By Elizabeth Edwards ~
I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.
~By Helen Reddy ~
I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.
~By Jenna Elfman ~
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.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
~By Henrik Ibsen ~
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".
~By Herbert Spencer ~
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
~By Moliere ~
I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
~By Keith Richards ~
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
~By William Congreve ~
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.
~By Halle Berry ~
There was absolutely no strain in marriage. Marc and I understand that this is a business. We have no problem separating our personal life with our personal life. And we have a very strong relationship.
~By Rita Mero ~
No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.
~By Judy Biggert ~
I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant.
~By Leah Ward Sears ~
Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
~By Gavyn Davies ~
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.
~By Linda McCartney ~
My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
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.
~By Marla Maples ~
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.
~By Stockwell Day ~
I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.
~By Tony Campolo ~
How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?
~By Randall Terry ~
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
~By Marvin Gaye ~
I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about the Clintons' marriage than you do.
~By Joe Klein ~
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.
~By Helen Rowland ~
I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.
~By Kelly Preston ~
I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.
~By Billie Burke ~
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
~By Andre Maurois ~
I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.
~By Burt Lancaster ~
To me marriage is for five or ten years.
~By Cher ~
Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.
~By Corrine Brown ~
I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.
~By Paul Martin ~
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
~By Henny Youngman ~
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
~By Jack Kingston ~
I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
~By James Dobson ~
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.
~By Shelley Winters ~
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
~By H. L. Mencken ~
I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.
~By Kirstie Alley ~
There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.
~By Dodie Smith ~
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
~By Voltaire ~
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
~By Thomas Love Peacock ~
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
~By Herbert Samuel ~
Marriage is the tomb of love.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.
~By Catherine Zeta-Jones ~
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.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
~By William O. Douglas ~
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