Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
I had 53 years of happy marriage and two daughters. These were the best things that happened in my life.
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.
Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.
The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore.
Spanglish is the encounter: perhaps the word is marriage or divorce of English and Spanish, but also of Anglo and Hispanic civilizations - not only in the United States but in the entire continent and, perhaps, also in Spain.
I think marriage is beautiful, but I have mixed feelings about it.
I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
God's word says for a man and a woman to be together, one man and one woman in the covenant of marriage to be together.
In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow.
I'm the person that I always was, but in terms of how I approach my living, I'm not the same person at all. At all. I've buried a child, I've ended a marriage, and the grandson that I was raising is now grown. My family has totally shifted.
There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.
Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.
Marriage is a sacrament, and the decision of what is a sacrament lies with the Church, not with Parliament.
I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.
The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there.
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
My greatest concern is that Mitt Romney seldom addresses the social issues publicly... I'm referring to the sanctity of human life, the traditional definition of marriage, and religious liberty.
I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.
I have a very intense marriage.
I've never thought about marriage or children.
You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman, but they understand that they are moving inevitably, catching up to the American public.
I'm not ready to rush into marriage.
Marriage is absolutely not something I'm scared of, but it isn't necessarily the be-all and end-all.
My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved.
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Even when I was a kid, I was never interested in any of that marriage or baby stuff.
Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
The truth was, there were four partners in our marriage. Stephen and me, motor neurone disease, and physics. If you took out motor neurone disease, you are still left with physics.
Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.