Top 1200 Great Marriage Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Marriage is not defined by who is denied it. When gay people share in the freedom to marry, it doesn't change your marriage.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

It's terrible to be trapped in a bad marriage. It would be nice if your marriage was forever, but why grudge it for what it was not?

Religion exists not because of God or for God; it is because of marriage. Marriage creates so much misery that one has to meditate; meditation is a byproduct. Without marriage, who will bother to meditate? For what? You will be already blissful!

It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it.

Those who enter into marriage, must be fully prepared to establish their marriage, as the first priority in their lives.

I love the idea of marriage. I definitely want marriage and little Kellans running around.

No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.

I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.

I have no idea if I will go for an arranged marriage or love marriage.

Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is.

I would not call Himmanshoo a good husband, but I would call him my best friend and a great companion. Personally, my mom and my family say that I am very lucky to have Himmanshoo as my partner. And I don't disagree at all. Marriage has been great!

Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes, and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies.

Marriage is not one point of view: it's a constant back and forth over different perspectives - a healthy marriage, anyway.

The American woman's concept of marriage is a clearly etched picture of something uninflated on the floor. A sleeping-bag withoutair, a beanbag without beans, a padded bra without pads. To work on it, you start pumping--what the magazines call "breathing life into your marriage." Do enough of this and the marriage becomes a kind of Banquo's ghost, a quasi-living entity.

We are wide open and vulnerable and in all likelihood an activist judge will strike down our Defense of Marriage Act, our state law against gay marriage, this year. And in all likelihood, we will have gay marriage in 2004 in Minnesota , if we don't get this amendment on the ballot for November.

By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage.

I support marriage equality and oppose legislation that defines marriage as only being between a man and a woman.

Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. Honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo.

Attaching the word marriage to the association of same-sex individuals mistakenly presumes that marriage is principally a matter of adult benefits and adult rights. In fact, marriage is principally about the nurturing and development of children. And the successful development of children is critical to the preservation and success of our nation.

The secret to a happy marriage is a sense of humor, because marriage throws you curveballs. It is not easy.

I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.

Marriage is amazing, and I wish every person on this planet to have a blissful marriage.

O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.

Marriage is very difficult. Marriage is like a five-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky.

Marriage is very secure. It is safe. There is no growth in it. One is simply stuck. Marriage is a sexual arrangement; intimacy is a search for love. Marriage is a sort of prostitution, a permanent sort. One has got married to a woman or to a man - it is a permanent prostitution. The arrangement is economical, not psychological, not of the heart.

Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.

I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.

I've got a great life - my friends, my marriage, my career, my health - and I'm on 'Strictly,' and I'm learning to dance.

No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can’t understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.

Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.

I was one of the first senators to support marriage equality, and led the effort to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.

Marriage is not easy, especially when it's a very public marriage. I know firsthand.

Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.

Granted, there's been mistakes made immaturely, but a marriage is a marriage.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.

I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage.

I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.

What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.

The conservative argument for marriage includes a recognition of the traditional value of marriage as a stabilizing force in society.

The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would accept marriage on it's thirteenth-century terms. Marriage survives, in other words, precisely because it evolves. (Though I suppose this would not be a very persuasive argument to those who probably also don't believe in evolution).

Giving public sanction to homosexual marriage ends up redefining marriage, and it's certain to harm children.

I'd like to have a successful marriage, not for the sake of labelling or branding, but because I believe in the institution of marriage.

The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.

People can't help the way they feel, only what they do about it. They can no longer not be attracted to someone other than their spouse than they can say they are not hungry or not thirsty or not frightened or embarrassed. It's when you act on that attraction when you know it would be bad for your marriage that is the problem. In a good marriage, the couple are each as committed to the marriage as they are to each other.

marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

We have a very strong marriage. We've been together for going on 32 years. I think we have the strongest marriage I know.

One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man.

Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.

Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage.

But people try love and because they are unconscious... their longing is good, but their love is full of jealousy, full of possessiveness, full of anger, full of nastiness. Soon they destroy it. Hence for centuries they have depended on marriage. Better to start by marriage so that the law can protect you from destroying it. The society, the government, the court, the policeman, the priest, they will all force you to live in the institution of marriage, and you will be just a slave. If marriage is an institution, you are going to be a slave in it. Only slaves want to live in institutions.

Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies.