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Marriage Quotes


"Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway."


"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."



"While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage."


"I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget."



"No wife wants to hear that her husband is less than perfect."


"Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman."


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



"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 is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising."


"I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage."


"A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises."


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


"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?"


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


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



"It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land."


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


"I may as well say it, I have been married three times."



"When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband."


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


"The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move."


"A righteous wife is a respectful wife."


"The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population."


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


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


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


"Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it."


"More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit."


"My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned."


"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."


"A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day."


"It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility."


"I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them."


"I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage."
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