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Marriage Quotes


"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"


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


"Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done."


"The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there."


"Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay."


"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."


"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them."


"Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does."


"Sometimes divorce is better than marriage."


"I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there."


"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."


"I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman."


"Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians."


"I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley."


"Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie."


"The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees."


"So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment."


"Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness."


"With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits."


"Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?"


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


"Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person."


"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences."


"It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't."


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


"Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand."


"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."


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