Marriage Quotes
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If you are married and you go off and have an affair with someone, if you are a husband who does that, it may potentially hurt your wife enormously. But it seems to me likely also to compromise your marriage. That seems to me to be a harm.
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It's hard enough to be in a marriage and then have a kid, then kids: it changes everything.
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When you start talking about same-sex marriage, you start talking about abortion, and I think those issues are very very important and very interesting and very right for us to talk about, but when we allow those issues to cannibalize all other issues we find ourselves homeless while we debate about it.
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In Italy, they say rain on your wedding day is symbolic of fresh beginnings, cleansing, a pure marriage, and also a wet knot that can't be untied.
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I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.
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But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.
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Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
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Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.
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The country is increasingly culturally conservative, with a small C. Every time marriage is on the ballot, it passes. People are increasingly pro-life. They don't like taxes.
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Do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't.
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I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.
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I believe in love and marriage, but not necessarily with the same person.
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If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada.
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Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.
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It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.
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I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.
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Like the majority of Alaskans, I supported a constitutional amendment in 1998 defining marriage as only between a man and a woman, but my thinking has evolved as America has witnessed a clear cultural shift.
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I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.
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I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.
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My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together, as a team.
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I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.
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Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.
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The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done such a marvelous job of debasing marriage on their own all these many years.
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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.
