Marriage Quotes

"To us marriage is first, everything else is second"

"My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number"

Jamie Lee Curtis, Actress

"Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats"

Marge Piercy, Writer

"Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking"

Marvin Gaye, Musician

"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"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights"

Alan Autry, Actor

"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"

David Thewlis, Actor

"Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives"

Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poet

"I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage"

Rory Bremner, Comedian

"I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage"

Stephanie Mills, Musician

"Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners"

Rowan D. Williams, Clergyman

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

Sharon Gless, Actress

"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, Writer

"Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit"

Margaret Cavendish, Writer

"One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance"

Iris Murdoch, Author

"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast"

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Novelist

"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"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

"I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"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"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage"

Kyle Chandler, Actor

"The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesn't believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people"

Ken Mehlman, Politician

"The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"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"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

"Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"Marriage is a big deal, but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for a minute?"

Lindsay Lohan, Actress

"The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us"

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Actress

"My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved"

Jamie Lee Curtis, Actress

"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"

Mike Rounds, Politician

"Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed"

Isabel Allende, Writer

"Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug"

Max Frisch, Novelist

"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"

Anthony Weiner, Politician

"People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death"

Alveda King, Clergyman

"It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage"

Alveda King, Clergyman

"Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman"

Nick Lampson, Politician

"On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"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"

Anthony Weiner, Politician

"Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally"

L. Ron Hubbard, Author

"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"

Donald Johanson, Scientist

"Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage"

Drew Barrymore, Actress

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