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Marriage Quotes


"I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this."


"Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states."


"My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment."


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


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


"The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials."


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


"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."


"I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure."


"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."


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


"Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore."


"The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction."


"I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?"


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


"Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?"


"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."


"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 activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard."


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


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


"I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily."


"One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance."


"I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights."


"Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture."


"When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit."


"The most important thing in marriage is not happiness but stability."


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


"She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over."


"We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship."


"Well married, a man is winged-ill-matched, he is shackled."
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