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Marriage Quotes

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"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"
Groucho Marx
"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"
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"I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us."
Kinky Friedman
"I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us."
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"If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine."
Shelley Long
"If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine."
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"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
"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."
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"I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right."
Richard Pryor
"I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right."
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"You don't marry a woman because you love her, you do because you're MAD for her."
Ramana Pemmaraju
"You don't marry a woman because you love her, you do because you're MAD for her."
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"Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights."
Jack Kingston
"Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights."
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"I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking."
Teri Garr
"I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking."
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"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."
Michelle Shocked
"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."
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"The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there."
James Denton
"The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there."
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"Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the "will of the people" goes out the window."
Bill Maher
"Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the "will of the people" goes out the window."
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"Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay."
Esther Williams
"Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay."
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"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
"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."
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"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."
Sydney Smith
"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."
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"Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does."
Groucho Marx
"Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does."
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"Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers."
Alan King
"Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers."
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"Sometimes divorce is better than marriage."
Sumner Redstone
"Sometimes divorce is better than marriage."
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"If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage."
George Carey
"If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage."
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"I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there."
Marla Maples
"I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there."
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"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
"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."
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"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."
Mitt Romney
"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."
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"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."
Mitt Romney
"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."
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"Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?"
Dennis Miller
"Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?"
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"Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius."
Warren Beatty
"Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius."
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"I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley."
Anne Heche
"I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley."
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"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."
Gloria Steinem
"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."
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"Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers."
Richard Pryor
"Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers."
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"Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie."
Denise Richards
"Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie."
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"My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage."
Kenneth G. Wilson
"My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage."
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"The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees."
Demi Moore
"The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees."
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"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."
Jack Kingston
"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."
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"Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness."
Benjamin Franklin
"Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness."
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"Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil."
Menander
"Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil."
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"With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits."
Eleanor Holmes Norton
"With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits."
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"Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?"
Rick Santorum
"Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?"
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"This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger."
Shelley Fabares
"This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger."
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"A marriage license should not be viewed as a license for a husband to forcibly rape his wife with impunity."
Sol Wachtler
"A marriage license should not be viewed as a license for a husband to forcibly rape his wife with impunity."
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"Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking."
Marvin Gaye
"Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking."
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"Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!"
Ben Affleck
"Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!"
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"Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person."
Sophia Bush
"Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person."
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"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences."
Isadora Duncan
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences."
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"My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20."
Mary Wesley
"My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20."
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"Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth."
Edwin Louis Cole
"Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth."
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"When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race."
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"Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become."
Coretta Scott King
"Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become."
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"It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't."
Spike Milligan
"It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't."
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"I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage."
James Talent
"I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage."
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"Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand."
James Taylor
"Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand."
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"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."
Jeff Sessions
"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."
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"But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage."
Jack Kingston
"But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage."
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