I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.
Charlie SheenWhat I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals that allow them to be to transfer property between partners to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.
Barack ObamaWhen you make the sacrifice in marriage you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Joseph CampbellRemember that children marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.
Billy GrahamThe real act of marriage takes place in the heart not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make / not just on your wedding day but over and over again / and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
Barbara de AngelisMarriage is a very good thing but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
W. Somerset MaughamLittle children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George EliotWhenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
H. L. MenckenA man's friendships are like his will invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
Samuel ButlerI don't think marriage is a civil right but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
Barack ObamaThere is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.
Martin LutherDivorce is probably as painful as death.
William ShatnerCulture what you believe what you value how you live matters. Now as fundamental as these principles are they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.
Mitt RomneyMy view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever by the way.
Mitt RomneyI love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.
William ShatnerA wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.
ChanakyaYou can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition, but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes or staring when you were in a fit of laughter would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
Robert Louis StevensonMr. 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.
Hedy LamarrI don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
Joel OsteenFriendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.
John WoodenMarriage is like life - it is a field of battle not a bed of roses.
Robert Louis StevensonMarriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isn Joseph Campbell
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
Samuel ButlerWell I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself you know what is my role? What is my responsibility?
Hillary ClintonShe's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.
Henny YoungmanMarriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
George EliotMarriage is a wonderful institution but who would want to live in an institution?
H. L. MenckenMarriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
Robert Louis StevensonMarriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather altogether incalculable.
Soren KierkegaardIn Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.
Groucho MarxYou can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
Benjamin FranklinMarriage n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master a mistress and two slaves making in all two.
Ambrose BierceNever again!! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
Ingrid BergmanI think like any marriage especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you want to try even harder to make it work.
Princess DianaMarriage a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
Michel de MontaigneThe ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.
Hedy LamarrA good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de MontaigneEvery marriage is a mystery to me even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.
Hillary ClintonLove is often the fruit of marriage.
MoliereA man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
Francis BaconIn marriage a man becomes slack and selfish and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Robert Louis StevensonA successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre MauroisThey say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
Clint EastwoodMarriage means your whole life a whole lifetime together not just a few days or a few weeks or a few years.
Sai BabaMore belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
Rainer Maria RilkeMarriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard ShawStaying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
P. J. O'RourkeMarriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
George Bernard ShawMarriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people how you argue how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?
William ShatnerI believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.
George W. BushIt is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage
Jane AustenCourtship is to marriage as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
William CongreveIn terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage and allowing them to live together with the protection of law it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.
Colin PowellI'm not for gay marriage but I'm not for discriminating against people.
Joel OsteenPromiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
Mason CooleyThe appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
AristotleThe 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.
EminemA successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlinMarriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant of interest easy and where both meet happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship all the enjoyments of sense and reason and
Joseph AddisonLove: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose BierceWe sleep in separate rooms we have dinner apart we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.
Rodney DangerfieldMarriage is a great institution but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae WestMarriage is the torment of one the felicity of two the strife and enmity of three.
Washington IrvingMarriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
Katharine HepburnThere is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
Henry David ThoreauThere were three of us in this marriage so it was a bit crowded.
Princess DianaMarriage is not a noun, it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
Barbara de AngelisMarriage is like a cage, one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel de MontaigneLike me the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.
Mitt RomneyGay marriage is going to happen. It must.
Lady GagaNot cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIn married life three is company and two none.
Oscar WildeWit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Mark TwainIt does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.
Jane AustenOne should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Honore de BalzacThere may be good but there are no pleasant marriages.
Rainer Maria RilkeHaving 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.
Ron PaulBrought up to respect the conventions love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
Bette DavisWoman or more precisely put perhaps marriage is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
Franz KafkaWhen you make a sacrifice in marriage you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Joseph CampbellAnd let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.
Mitt RomneyMarriage changes everything.
Marilyn MansonOnly choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Joseph JoubertAn affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
Bette DavisI have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.
Hillary ClintonAnyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration, simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage and he expects your absolute loyalty.
Hubert H. HumphreyMarriage is a great institution.
Elizabeth TaylorI believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually our constitutions expand liberties they don't contract them.
Barack ObamaMany marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Zig ZiglarBooks and marriage go ill together.
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