Marriage Quotes

Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you.

~ Suzanne Brockmann

For some of my friends who raise personal objections to marriage equality, they still recognize the importance of being accepting. And many of them also recognize that regardless of what they choose to believe or practice at home or at their church, that doesn't give them the right to discriminate.

~ Scott Fujita

After much deliberation, and after reviewing the legal, public policy and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed.

~ Bob Casey

After lengthy consideration, my views have evolved sufficiently to support marriage equality legislation. This position doesn't require any religious denomination to alter any of its tenets; it simply forbids government from discrimination regarding who can marry whom.

~ Tim Johnson

I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea.

~ Nancy Werlin

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

~ Henny Youngman

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

~ Hesiod

I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.

~ Imtiaz Ali

I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.

~ Amanda Holden

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

~ Benjamin Franklin

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

~ Nick Cave

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

~ Jane Austen

The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.

~ Samuel Adams

I say to my children, the reason that marriage - and having children - is so important is that it stops you thinking about yourself. The way to happiness is to give yourself to others and to think of others before you think of yourself.

~ Terry Wogan

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

~ H. Jackson Brown

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

~ Honoré De Balzac

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

~ David Gest

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

~ Mickey Rooney

My marriage to David Bailey ended one morning in 1983, while he was away on a photo-shoot.

~ Marie Helvin

I do believe that God blessed me in life with a wonderful family, a successful career, and a loving marriage, and remain thankful for that blessing.

~ Bonnie Tyler

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

~ Pope John Paul Ii

We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.

~ Jerry Falwell

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

~ George Eliot

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

~ Penelope Cruz

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

~ Eminem

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

~ Brigitte Nielsen

I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people want to make sure that this definition of marriage remains secure, because after all, the family is the fundamental unit of government.

~ Michele Bachmann

It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.

~ Alan Keyes

On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

~ Madonna Ciccone

At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

~ Sam Brownback

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

~ Elizabeth Edwards

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.

~ Germaine Greer

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.

~ Prince William

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

~ Michael Enzi

Perhaps my problem in marriage - and it is the problem of many women - was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

~ Hedy Lamarr

Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.

~ William Hague

Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and a woman.

~ Gary Bauer

Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

~ Carla Bruni

Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way the country can move forward on this issue. Let all those who have a view on this subject place their trust in the Scottish people and let Scotland decide.

~ Keith O'brien