Marriage Quotes

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.

President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?

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.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

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.

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

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.

My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way.

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.