Marriage Quotes

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Same-sex marriage is not the future.

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.

I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.

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.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?

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.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.

We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.

I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called.

I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.'

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.

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

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.

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

You know, there were major problems in my marriage.

Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.