Marriage Quotes

• I have often lost whole days jumping from one Wikipedia article after another in an attempt to understand the full scope of marriage as an institution.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Lost
  • Marriage
  • Understand

• I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was defined as between one man and one woman. It was anti-polygamy, in effect saying no man can hoard his women.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Woman

• When someone comes up to me and says, 'Mary, you helped save my marriage', or, 'Mary, you helped me get out of this abusive relationship', I'm in it, really in their lives. And I'm so passionate about my feelings, but also about showing people the way through theirs.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • People
  • Up
  • Relationship

• The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.

  

  Eleonora Duse
  • Marriage
  • Partner

• Marriage equality is a hustler's feeding frenzy of gold-diggers. I campaigned for marriage equality in Maryland because I believe we should have the right to it, but I personally don't want to get married. I don't want to imitate the traditions of heterosexual people. I hate weddings: they make me uneasy.

  

  John Waters
  • People
  • Believe
  • Hate

• We're no longer saying that people who are pro traditional marriage are bigots, and we're also not saying that people who are, like me, a Republican that is for gay marriage, is less of a Republican.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• I do think about marriage, but it's not the end-all goal.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Marriage

• Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Good
  • Marriage
  • Advertising

• When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

  

  Allison Pearson
  • Important
  • Children
  • Why

• A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together.

  

  David Reuben
  • Long
  • Together
  • Rock

• Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Work
  • Children
  • Priority

• I am somewhat grateful to the disintegration of my marriage for teaching me a lot about myself and about relationships, and though I wish it hadn't been such a taxing lesson, I wouldn't change a thing.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Wish
  • Marriage

• Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • True
  • Marriage
  • Grit

• As much as the social conservatives might not like to hear it, there will be a time when your grandchildren say: 'What was the argument with gay marriage? Who cares?'

  

  Jim Kolbe
  • Care
  • Gay
  • Grandchildren

• The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.

  

  Doug Stanhope
  • Society
  • Marriage

• The truth is many people see a marriage vow as the only way people are going to stay with someone who is sick.

  

  Jenna Morasca
  • People
  • Truth
  • Sick

• As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it.

  

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson
  • Work
  • Job
  • Hope

• I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.

  

  Marla Maples
  • Marriage

• I don't support gay marriage, but I also don't support a constitutional amendment banning it. However, I do support same sex unions that would give gay couples all the rights, privileges and protections of marriage.

  

  Bob Casey, Jr.
  • Support
  • Sex
  • Gay

• I think the most important thing I wanted to say at various times to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt was that it seemed so sad to me that - I really believe they loved each other and had a great deal of affection - but because of that early hurt in their marriage, there was a certain kind of distance from then on, until their deaths actually. So at times, I just wanted to push them together and say, "Come on, you guys! I know you love each other. This is crazy!"

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Important

• Five lawyers have closed the debate and enacted their own vision of marriage as a matter of constitutional law... Just who do we think we are?

  

  John Roberts
  • Law
  • Marriage
  • Vision

• In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Growing

• Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Balance
  • End
  • Drug

• Obama's position on marriage is brazenly cynical.

  

  David Limbaugh
  • Marriage

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