It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.
~By Marcel Achard ~
Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.
~By Judy Biggert ~
Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.
~By Bettina Arndt ~
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
~By Will Durant ~
Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
~By Max Frisch ~
I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.
~By Teri Garr ~
The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.
~By Eleanora Duse ~
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
~By John Steinbeck ~
French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
~By Edmond About ~
Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.
~By Allan Sherman ~
We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
~By Daniel Drew ~
I finally got a chance to talk to my daughter from my previous marriage. I just got married May 3 to my beautiful wife, but we don't see each other much.
~By Peter Criss ~
Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
~By Mike Rounds ~
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
~By Ogden Nash ~
Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.
~By Al Goldstein ~
The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.
~By Bernard De Voto ~
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
~By Herbert Samuel ~
Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
~By Eddie Cantor ~
I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.
~By Todd Akin ~
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
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.
~By David Vitter ~
The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.
~By Demi Moore ~
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
~By Randy Neugebauer ~
Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by our gay and lesbian citizens.
~By Earl Blumenauer ~
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
~By Douglas William Jerrold ~
Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.
~By Augusten Burroughs ~
Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?
~By Dennis Miller ~
The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
~By Ted Olson ~
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.
~By Mary Wesley ~
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
~By Socrates ~
Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the "will of the people" goes out the window.
~By Bill Maher ~
My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
~By Andrew Sullivan ~
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God.
~By Amy Levy ~
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
~By Peter De Vries ~
Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
~By Dora Russell ~
Books and marriage go ill together.
~By Moliere ~
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
~By Bette Davis ~
For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.
~By Catherine Zeta-Jones ~
I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
~By Natalie Portman ~
It only takes five people in black robes to determine such crucial issues for our country as abortion, pornography, same-sex 'marriage,' and religious liberties.
~By Richard Land ~
First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.
~By Maximilian Schell ~
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
~By Phyllis McGinley ~
I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.
~By George W. Bush ~
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
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.
~By Joseph Ratzinger ~
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.
~By Robert Bolt ~
Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.
~By Jack Kingston ~
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.
~By Norman Lear ~
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
~By Alan King ~
I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes.
~By Lisa Guerrero ~
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.
~By Shania Twain ~
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
~By Harriet Martineau ~
The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.
~By Colin Chapman ~
But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.
~By Linda McCartney ~
It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it.
~By Dick Smothers ~
Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.
~By Mary Douglas ~
They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing.
~By Terry Gilliam ~
But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict.
~By Brad Garrett ~
Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.
~By Michael Enzi ~
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
~By 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.
~By Faith Hill ~
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
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 ~
And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.
~By Damon Wayans ~
For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
~By Katey Sagal ~
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
~By Andre Maurois ~
In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents.
~By Phil Collins ~
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
~By Christopher Hampton ~
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.
~By James Talent ~
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
~By Billy Connolly ~
I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.
~By Lisa Marie Presley ~
To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
Marriage is... OK, it's rooted and grounded on love and attraction.
~By Mary Archer ~
The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.
~By Jim Wallis ~
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
~By Rita Rudner ~
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.
~By Steve Chabot ~
There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.
~By Richard G. Scott ~
Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.
~By Jack Kingston ~
The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.
~By Sacha Guitry ~
Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.
~By Joe Moore ~
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.
~By Johnny Weissmuller ~
I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.
~By Stephen Harper ~
Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.
~By Lorna Luft ~
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
~By William Congreve ~
I like marriage. The idea.
~By Toni Morrison ~
Although we hardly see each other off the set, Joy and I get along well when we do. As far as the marriage between Nathan and Haley, I think they are young and will see the reality of the situation eventually.
~By James Lafferty ~
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
~By George Eliot ~
Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.
~By Mitt Romney ~
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
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