Marriage Quotes
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Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers with the collapse of the relationship of the couple who brings a child into the world.
William J Doherty
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Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of story.
Hillary Clinton
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
Henrik Ibsen
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The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.
Jennifer Garner
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There is usually less romance in marriage than in any other relationship of life. But the general idea concerning marriage is that it is all or nearly all romance.
Alice Moore Hubbard
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That was what marriage was: the ultimate knowledge of each other, with no need to preen or to pretend. Even its irritations came from closeness.
Bel Kaufman
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With gay marriage there's the whole question of what marriage represents, in what's a religious ceremony for many people.
Andrew Kohut
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After marriage, all things change. And one of them better be you.
Elizabeth Hawes
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We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem.
Ernest Istook
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A life allied with mine, for the rest of our lives... that is the miracle of marriage.
Denis de Rougemont
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I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.
Sarah Jessica Parker
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About the girls she only thought of marriage, and about marriage she thought as an ignorant, dissatisfied, but helpless slave did of slavery.
Christina Stead
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
Jasper Fforde
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Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Men are fine, love is fine, it's marriage I'm a little disappointed in.
Hedy Lamarr
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I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.
Stephen Harper
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I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
Barack Obama
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Could mere loving be a life's work? Could it be a career like marriage or nursing the sick or going on the stage? Could it be adventure?
Elizabeth Goudge
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For marriage is the worst misfortune!
Antiphanes
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In the perfect world, no one would need pre-nups. But all too often, a misty-eyed romancer at the altar transforms into a vengeful, avaricious fiscal predator when the marriage goes south.
Lionel Shriver
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Will have a wonderful marriage. But if you married the right person yet treat him or her as the wrong one, that person will turn into the wrong one. The same is true with your job.
Ed Silvoso
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Marriage ... has historically been a battlefield, the site of collisions within and between governments and religions over who should regulate it. But marriage has weathered centuries of skirmishes and change. It has evolved from an institution that was imposed on some people and denied to others, to the loving union of companionship, commitment, and caring between equal partners that we think of today.
Evan Wolfson
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Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
Max Frisch
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Books and marriage go ill together.
Moliere