Top 1200 Witty Marriage Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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.

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

My commentary's hilarious, not witty.

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

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

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

Tired people aren't witty

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.

Gay marriage is a tricky issue for the Democrats due to the fact that - like taxes, defense and education - they are forced to lie about their position when running for office. In other words, Democrats are gay marriage supporters trapped in the bodies of candidates who oppose gay marriage. And no issue-reassignment surgery can help them.

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).

Every marriage is different, and it's impossible to understand your own marriage, really, much less anybody else's.

Marriage is going to disappear, should disappear. And now the point is coming in the history of humanity where it becomes possible that marriage can disappear. It is already an outmoded phenomenon, it has lived too long and it has created nothing but misery. Marriage should disappear and love should flower again. One should live with insecurity and freedom. That I call intelligence.

A storybook marriage? No, not at all. What Mitt Romney and I have is a real marriage.

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

I'm totally against straight marriage - even though I'm married. I don't think heterosexual marriage is any of the government's business.

Really with marriage, from what I've heard about from different friends that are married, you can't entirely be prepared. There are things you can only learn in marriage.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

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

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

By demanding more from men and from marriage, it's single women who have perhaps played as large a part as anyone in saving marriage in America.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

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

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

What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.

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.

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

History is not just cruel. It is witty.

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.

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.

Marriage is a partnership between one man and one woman... Nothing could be clearer in the Bible as to what constitutes a marriage in God's sight.

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

A witty saying proves nothing.

A witty quote proves nothing.

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

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

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

In many ways, the crumbling of the institution of marriage is the real 'war on women.' Marriage is the civilizing influence for men and for families.

Marriage is not defined in the federal Constitution at all; it's a matter for the states. And applying the Fourteenth Amendment to the equality of men and women and their relationship in marriage is totally different than redefining marriage. Here is the overreach of the judiciary. This, if allowed to stand without any congressional approval, without any kind of enabling legislation, is what Jefferson warned us about. That's judicial tyranny.

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

Marriage requires the giving and keeping of confidences, the sharing of thoughts and feelings, respect and understanding always, marriage requires humility - the humility to repent, the humility to forgive. Marriage requires flexibility (to give and take) and firmness: not to compromise principles. And a wise and moderate sense of humor. Both need to be pulling together in the same direction.

Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

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.

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

Marriage is a totally different phenomenon: it is the climax of love. Then it is good. I am not against marriage - I am for the REAL marriage. I am against the false, the pseudo, that exists. But it is an arrangement. It gives you a certain security, safety, occupation. It keeps you engaged. Otherwise, it gives you no enrichment, it gives you no nourishment.

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

You may be witty, but not satirical.

I think that with marriages, people have to understand that you have to look at your marriage and understand what is needed in your marriage - not what people think your marriage should be or what people want your marriage to be.

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

Better no marriage, than a marriage short of the best.