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Marriage Quotes


"Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it."


"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."


"I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes."


"Only the exclusive and indissoluble union between a man and a woman has a plenary role to play in society as a stable commitment that bears fruit in new life."


"The virtues about marriage were mostly negative virtues. Being unmarried in a man's world was such a hassle that anything had to be better. Marriage was better. But not much. Damned clever, I thought, how men had made life so intolerable for single women that most would gladly embrace even bad marriages instead."


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



"I know there are a lot of readers that think I've got a very crappy marriage just because of the things going on with Rick and Lori but there's really nothing that's been like a mirror. I'm just making this stuff up."



"Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage."


"I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years."


"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."


"With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other."


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



"Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack."


"The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great."


"Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman."



"Sometimes divorce is better than marriage."


"I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage."


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



"Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three."


"We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem."



"Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require."


"Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman."


"Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice."


"It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate."


"My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol."


"Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch."


"Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation."



"Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty."


"Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting."


"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."


"Every night, whisper "peace" in your husband's ear."



"I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot."



"Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on."



"And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned."


"Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society."
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