The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great. ~By Liz Smith ~
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man. ~By Henrik Ibsen ~
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. ~By Rachel Griffiths ~
We all want something else other than what we have and don't realize what you got works. It works. It does work. You gotta work. Marriage is work. Marriage is a career. It's not an adventure. ~By Sinbad ~
I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily. ~By Paul Getty ~
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 ~
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. ~By John Fowles ~
I don't know nothing about no marriages or nothing. I ain't even never been to a wedding. ~By Mike Epps ~
It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous. ~By Ian Mckellen ~
I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children. ~By Penelope Cruz ~
And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned. ~By Ringo Starr ~
Let me be clear. I support the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman. ~By Ben Nelson ~
Marriage, at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40. ~By Amanda Seyfried ~
Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death. ~By Jennifer Dunn ~
We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character. ~By Kate Mulgrew ~
One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again. ~By Judith Viorst ~
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. ~By Helen Rowland ~
Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage? ~By Rick Santorum ~
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring. ~By Enid Bagnold ~
Newlyweds, they have this ideal, this picture of what marriage is like, something similar of their favorite memories growing up. If only it were that simple. ~By William Taylor ~
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home. ~By Elizabeth Edwards ~
Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law. ~By Jerry Falwell ~
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued. ~By Robert Graves ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq. ~By Dick Morris ~
Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated. ~By LaToya Jackson ~
Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own. ~By Eddie Cantor ~
Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch. ~By Dennis Miller ~
By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us. ~By Barbara Mandrell ~
It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it. ~By Dick Smothers ~
Same-sex marriage is not the future. ~By Maggie Gallagher ~
Marriage isn't a carnival ride. ~By Aisha Tyler ~
The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard. ~By Jim Bunning ~
I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them. ~By James Dobson ~
There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart. ~By Deidre Hall ~
I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget. ~By Bianca Jagger ~
I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage. ~By Mark Ruffalo ~
I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage. ~By Corrine Brown ~
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 ~
I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman. ~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage. ~By Kenneth G. Wilson ~
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary. ~By Samuel Richardson ~
More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit. ~By Tim Murphy ~
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. ~By Mark Twain ~
Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting. ~By Augusten Burroughs ~
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother. ~By Sam Levenson ~
There is a time for all things - except marriage, my dear. ~By Thomas Chatterton ~
Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant. ~By Loretta Lynn ~
They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me. ~By R. Kelly ~
I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention. ~By Linda McCartney ~
Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest. ~By Yoko Ono ~
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. ~By Robert Rainy ~
Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people. ~By Joseph Ratzinger ~
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit. ~By Anthony Trollope ~
All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems. ~By Shelley Winters ~
I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia. ~By Connie Willis ~
It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed. ~By Kendrick Meek ~
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 ~
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. ~By Queen Victoria ~
Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships. ~By Rick Santorum ~
The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution. ~By Ted Olson ~
The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest. ~By Anne Tyler ~
I'll always be sad that my marriage ended. ~By Shania Twain ~
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. ~By Honore de Balzac ~
Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan. ~By Stockwell Day ~
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. ~By Herbert Spencer ~
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? ~By Samuel Butler ~
Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family. ~By John Boehner ~
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. ~By Portia de Rossi ~
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 to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay. ~By Esther Williams ~
Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person. ~By Sophia Bush ~
My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters. ~By Charlene Tilton ~
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. ~By Rita Rudner ~
I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids. ~By Kelly Preston ~
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage. ~By Tertullian ~
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 was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. ~By Phyllis McGinley ~
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 ~
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. ~By John Updike ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise. ~By Raquel Welch ~
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 ~
Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional. ~By Stockwell Day ~
Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time. ~By Sean Penn ~
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. ~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
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. ~By Utada Hikaru ~
If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice. ~By Estelle Getty ~
Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up. ~By Les Dawson ~
But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage. ~By Jack Kingston ~
I like marriage. The idea. ~By Toni Morrison ~
The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials. ~By Cynthia Nelms ~
My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment. ~By Nadia Comaneci ~
Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done. ~By Arlie Hochschild ~
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