Marriage Quotes

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

My mom, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage.

I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved.

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.

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.

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

I'm not a marriage expert, quite clearly.

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.

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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.

I think there are some people in life who are not marriage material and Chris is one of them.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.