Marriage & Partnership: Marriage Quotes

"The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last"

Andrew Sullivan, Journalist

"It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home"

Elizabeth Edwards, Lawyer

"When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place"

Helen Gahagan, Actress

"I don't date rock 'n' rollers. I just marry them"

Heather Locklear, Actress

"I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage"

James Talent, Politician

"I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years"

Sam Kinison, Comedian

"If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family"

Michael Enzi, Politician

"I met an American woman and got married, so I had to get a job"

Walter Wager, Novelist

"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

"Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with"

Patricia Arquette, Actress

"I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since"

Anne Stevenson, Poet

"We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God"

Amy Levy, Poet

"You utter a vow or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison"

Bronislaw Malinowski, Scientist

"I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there's nothing wrong with it"

Tia Mowry, Actress

"There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself"

Dionne Warwick, Musician

"Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that"

Nick Cave, Musician

"I've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I'd like to have children; marriage I have a bit of an issue with"

Kelly Brook, Model

"The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things, the most horrible to my imagination"

Sarah Fielding, Writer

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

Sharon Gless, Actress

"Her name was called Lady Helena Herring, and her age was 25, and she mated well with the earl"

Daisy Ashford, Writer

"If you will take her, you may take her, but if you go from aboard, you shall never come aboard again"

William Kidd, Explorer

"I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much"

Pat Travers, Musician

"I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter"

Pete Coors, Businessman

"No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association"

Johnny Weissmuller, Actor

"Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?"

Howard Stringer, Businessman

"When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel"

LaToya Jackson, Musician

"This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes - it liberates young women to pursue married men"

George Gilder, Writer

"I did know Ted Hughes, and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others, the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy"

Anne Stevenson, Poet

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

Burt Reynolds, Actor

"We managed to hang in there. Today, when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together"

Jerry Stiller, Comedian

"Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit"

Margaret Cavendish, Writer

"Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people"

Steve Chabot, Politician

"I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married"

Scott Bakula, Actor

"I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years"

Darrell Royal, Coach

"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

"Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea"

Anthony Perkins, Actor

"Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated"

LaToya Jackson, Musician

"I have a very intense marriage"

James Ellroy, Writer

"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

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