Marriage Quotes
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The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife and that you may learn to bear these troubles.
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Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."
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Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
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If the rights of civil partners are met differently in law to those of married couples, there is no discrimination in law, and if civil partnerships are seen as somehow 'second class' that is a social attitude which will change and cannot, in any case, be turned around by redefining the law of marriage.
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It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is the most ancient form of that social ministration which God has ordained for all human beings, and which is symbolized by all the relations of nature.
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If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people.
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Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Now, I'm for interracial marriage. I'm for same-sex marriage. I'm the one that introduced the bill to have same-sex marriage. I don't care who marry who. If a man meet a little mule and he wanna get married to the little mule, as long as he and the little mule get along all right, that's fine with me. It doesn't bother me any kind of way.
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I feel people naturally have a brightness. When that is extinguished by circumstances - be it a wrong marriage or a situation that you cannot leave psychologically - there's something about that dying spark that I'm drawn to playing.
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Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
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Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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Unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.
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Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.
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When parents are educated about how not to involve children in their conflicts and co-parent amicably, a lot of the ill effects of divorce can be alleviated. Divorce is always painful. But kids in a high-conflict marriage or low-conflict but contemptuous ones are often better off in the long run when the parent can disengage.
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Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Why would a married couple that lives together every day need to date each other? It's precisely because they live and sleep together.
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I really don't have a problem with gay marriage... because I'm tolerant and rational.
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Homosexuals can be, you know, committed to each other. And they have freedom to behave in the ways that they do, but they cannot be a family. They cannot be married. I mean, virtually every culture in the history of the world has considered marriage to be between one woman and one man.
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I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married.
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Stresses in a marriage and in family life, sometimes they're prompted by whatever is going on in the wider world as well as what's going on behind your door.
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Marriage is to family what legs are to a table.
