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Marriage Quotes


"Treat marriage like a diamond necklace; if broken, fix it, but do not throw it away."


"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 decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks."


"Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset."


"American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them."


"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."


"There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone."


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


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


"I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia."


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


"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?"


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


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


"Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued."


"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."


"I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage."


"Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder."


"Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage."


"Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan."


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


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