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Marriage Quotes
"Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman."
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"Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished."
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"Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder."
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"Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done."
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"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."
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"You need to be my wife to win with me."
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"By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us."
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"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."
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"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."
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"I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage."
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"Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate."
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"We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship."
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"Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights."
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"And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous."
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"So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it and sometimes three."
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"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."
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"Most of a husband's life is spent in doing research on his wife."
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"Beauvoir left their home wanting to call his wife and tell her how much he loved her, and then tell her what he believed in, and his fears and hopes and disappointments. To talk about something real and meaningful. He dialed his cell phone and got her. But the words got caught somewhere south of his throat. Instead he told her the weather had cleared, and she told him about the movie she'd rented. Then they both hung up."
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"I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about the Clintons' marriage than you do."
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"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."
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"My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage."
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"The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time."
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"Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature."
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"President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage."
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"The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials."
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"We will have a happy marriage if it kills him."
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"The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most."
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"I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage."
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"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."
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"Marriage is like a toothbrush. It starts out smooth and gets kind of prickly towards the end."
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"There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage."
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"Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution."
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"Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up."
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