Marriage Quotes

"For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end"

"Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career"

Billie Burke, Actress

"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"

Allan Sherman, Musician

"By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us"

Barbara Mandrell, Musician

"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"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

"It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both"

Guy de Maupassant, Writer

"Marriage is an exercise in torture"

Frances Conroy, Actress

"If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother"

Sam Levenson, Author

"Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already"

Linda Fiorentino, Actress

"Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society"

Jack Kingston, Politician

"Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now"

Jim DeMint, Politician

"I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years"

Simone Signoret, Actress

"I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more"

Marc Chagall, Artist

"Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights"

Jack Kingston, Politician

"Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it"

Helen Reddy, Actress

"I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship"

Helen Reddy, Actress

"The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done"

Burt Reynolds, Actor

"I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage"

Mary Cheney, Celebrity

"We all want something else other than what we have and don't realize what you got works. It works. It does work. You gotta work. Marriage is work. Marriage is a career. It's not an adventure"

Sinbad, Comedian

"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, Politician

"I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage"

Ricky Skaggs, Musician

"I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general"

Leah Ward Sears, Judge

"I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been"

Portia de Rossi, Actress

"My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life"

Maria Monk, Celebrity

"Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature"

Jack Kingston, Politician

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

Mary A. Ward

"I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing"

Linda Evans, Actress

"I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman"

Jimmy Swaggart, Clergyman

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

Jack Kingston, Politician

"But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage"

Jack Kingston, Politician

"I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage"

Halle Berry, Actress

"I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea"

Lara Flynn Boyle, Actress

"Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman"

Randy Neugebauer, Politician

"I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people want to make sure that this definition of marriage remains secure, because after all, the family is the fundamental unit of government"

Michele Bachmann, Politician

"I was made to believe there was a plan in place for ending Donald's previous marriage. I pulled away because I wanted to allow him the time to deal with his wife"

Marla Maples, Actress

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