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Marriage Quotes


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


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


"I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage."


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


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


"Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person."


"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."


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


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


"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."


"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."


"My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started."


"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."


"Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory."


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


"Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage."


"The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesn't believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people."


"Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough."


"Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate."


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


"The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female."


"Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman."


"In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring."


"I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley."


"The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so."


"Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps."


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


"For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both."


"There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage."


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