Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.
~By Jack Kingston ~
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
~By Socrates ~
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
~By Billy Connolly ~
I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.
~By Mickey Rooney ~
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 ~
Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
~By James Taylor ~
I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there's nothing wrong with it.
~By Tia Mowry ~
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 ~
I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids.
~By Bonnie Raitt ~
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.
~By Dennis Miller ~
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
~By Rita Rudner ~
If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist.
~By Tom McClintock ~
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
~By Groucho Marx ~
But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.
~By Linda McCartney ~
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
~By Henrik Ibsen ~
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 ~
Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.
~By Jack Kingston ~
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 ~
The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.
~By Charles Eastman ~
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 ~
If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine.
~By Shelley Long ~
Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.
~By Andrew Sullivan ~
There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.
~By Dionne Warwick ~
A marriage license should not be viewed as a license for a husband to forcibly rape his wife with impunity.
~By Sol Wachtler ~
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
~By John Fowles ~
To us marriage is first, everything else is second.
~By Julie Benz ~
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
I don't believe in hasty marriages.
~By Anna Held ~
I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.
~By Lynn Redgrave ~
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.
~By Marilyn Monroe ~
But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?
~By Robert Downey, Jr. ~
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
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.
~By Millicent Carey McIntosh ~
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
~By Mark Twain ~
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
~By Nicolas Chamfort ~
Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
~By Nick Cave ~
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 ~
They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.
~By R. Kelly ~
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
~By Sydney Smith ~
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
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 ~
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.
~By Mel Gibson ~
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.
~By Margaret Sanger ~
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 ~
Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.
~By Linda Fiorentino ~
I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single.
~By Paula Danziger ~
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 candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.
~By Dick Morris ~
There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
~By Norman Mailer ~
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.
~By Connie Sellecca ~
Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
~By Seamus Heaney ~
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.
~By Hesiod ~
It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.
~By Sophia Bush ~
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
~By John Updike ~
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 ~
Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton.
~By David Letterman ~
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 ~
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
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 ~
I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.
~By Jack Nicholson ~
I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.
~By Marc Chagall ~
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 ~
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
~By Voltaire ~
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.
~By Estelle Getty ~
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
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 ~
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
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.
~By Stephen Harper ~
There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.
~By Billie Burke ~
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
~By Dora Russell ~
Marriage isn't a carnival ride.
~By Aisha Tyler ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Ernest Istook ~
Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.
~By Corrine Brown ~
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
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.
~By Sadie Frost ~
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 ~
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
~By Anna Quindlen ~
I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.
~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
~By Jane Austen ~
We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
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 ~
First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.
~By Maximilian Schell ~
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
~By Thomas Love Peacock ~
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
~By W. H. Auden ~
Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
~By Gavyn Davies ~
The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
~By Bill Cosby ~
My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.
~By Erika Slezak ~
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