Famous Quotes
- Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.
- William Hague on Marriage
- Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.
- Gene Robinson on Marriage
- Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Marriage
- Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.
- Jeff Bridges on Marriage
- Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.
- Dan Savage on Marriage
- Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
- H. L. Mencken on Marriage
- Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.
- Kendrick Meek on Marriage
- Success is hard in general for most women. We now have such busy lives, and we're told we can do everything - you know, we can have the relationship and the marriage and the kids and the career.
- Cat Deeley on 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.
- Neil Simon on Marriage
- Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.
- Roseanne Barr on Marriage
- That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
- John Updike on Marriage
- 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.
- Jesse Helms on Marriage
- 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.
- Jim Bunning on Marriage
- 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.
- Anne Tyler on Marriage
- The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.
- Billy Graham on Marriage
- The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
- Brendan Behan on Marriage
- The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.
- Gene Simmons on Marriage
- The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.
- Ethan Hawke on Marriage
- The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there.
- James Denton on Marriage
- The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
- Peter De Vries on Marriage
- The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.
- Hedy Lamarr on Marriage
- The church's teaching on marriage is unequivocal, it is uniquely, the union of a man and a woman and it is wrong that governments, politicians or parliaments should seek to alter or destroy that reality.
- Keith O'Brien on Marriage
- 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.
- Anna Quindlen on Marriage
- The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
- The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
- A. P. Herbert on Marriage
- The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
- A. P. Herbert on Marriage
- The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
- Dan Savage on Marriage
- The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.
- Jeffrey Kluger on Marriage
- The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.
- Jesse Tyler Ferguson on Marriage
- The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.
- The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
- Peter De Vries on Marriage
- The fact is, I am in my third marriage and I do not believe in divorce. But I was half the problem, I guarantee you. More than half the problem. I couldn't negotiate with the other women.
- James Brolin on Marriage
- The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.
- Paul Martin on Marriage
- The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
- John Updike on Marriage
- The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
- Jackie Kennedy on Marriage
- The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
- Harold Nicolson on Marriage
- 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.
- Bill Cosby on Marriage
- The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
- George Jessel on Marriage
- The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
- Honore De Balzac on Marriage
- The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.
- Olivia Wilde on Marriage
- The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.
- The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.
- Jeff Miller on Marriage
- 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.
- Jim Wallis on Marriage
- The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Marriage
- The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.
- Anita Ekberg on Marriage
- The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.
- Rick Santorum on Marriage
- 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.
- Jim Talent on Marriage
- The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
- Oscar Wilde on Marriage
- 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.
- Ellie Goulding on Marriage
- The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
- Finley Peter Dunne on Marriage
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