Top 1200 Modern Marriage Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

They don't think we're in touch with modern Britain, or understand modern Britain or like modern Britain.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

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

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

To me, the difference between a good marriage and a great marriage is conviction.

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

ABC's intelligently hilarious sitcom 'Modern Family' depicts a gay-male marriage in which both partners are refreshingly dimensional, believable human beings. The writers dare to make them flawed and thus fully delineated, but they're not flawed in the silly, stereotypical ways that once dominated such portrayals.

I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution between a man and a woman. I proposed a constitutional amendment. The reason I did so was because I was worried that activist judges are actually defining the definition of marriage. And the surest way to protect marriage between a man and woman is to amend the Constitution.

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

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

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

It takes both spouses to say, "My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage" to have a great marriage.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I think Donald Trump's interpretation of marriage is something that he himself doesn't really believe in. 'Traditional marriage' is where two people love each other, commit to each other, care for each other over the years. It is a meaningful ceremony, and his interpretation of that is not recognizing what real marriage is.

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.

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

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

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

The institution of marriage has been something that - we have a very temperamental relationship, marriage and I. I've seen a lot of not great examples of it.

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

The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns …it is safe to predict that… such social inventions as modern-type capitalism, facism and communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed towards the adjustment of modern society to modern methods

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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