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Marriage Quotes


"There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages."


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


"While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage."


"Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom."


"Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit 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."


"Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank."


"Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass."



"Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred."


"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?"


"Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty."


"The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy."


"After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful."


"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."


"I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted."


"Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy."


"Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit."



"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker."


"I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers."


"The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest."


"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."


"Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in dark-brown mood. He shrugged, and left her."


"An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know."


"A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement."


"You will often be in despair. You will sometimes think it's the worst decision in your life. That's fine. That's not a sign your marriage has gone wrong. It's a sign that it's normal it's on track. And many of the hopes that took you into the marriage will have to die in order for the marriage to continue."


"As you gave the ring to one another and have now received it a 2nd time from the hand of the pastor, so love comes from you, but marriage from above, from God. As high as God is above man, so high are the sanctity, the rights, and the promise of love. It is not your love tht sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love."


"Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership."
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