The best part about being a bachelor is that you’ll never get divorced.

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it’s just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That’s a good thing.

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

May their having each other make more of them both.

Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and more of an attractive prospect.

It’s no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.

My attachment to my wedding ring is a powerful symbol of the infinite love that I have for my wife and children.

A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork.

Legs longer than my marriage.

I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it’s one of the most important institutions we have

Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that

Whether people choose to have same sex relationships or relationships outside the marriage – whatever happens between two consenting adults should be purely their business, not the state’s or the society’s.

I can see that spark coming back when he talks about the future.

Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Whenever a husband and a wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse – as Aman shoots himself.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe .

Peter Elers, one of the first openly gay vicars in the Church of England, who blessed a lesbian ‘marriage’ in 1976 on the understanding that, if the Church blessed battleships and budgerigars, it ought to find it in its heart to bless men and women in love

If you leave your wife and you don’t ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.

A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

I lost somebody who I thought was my eternal love … When he died I felt we’d had a marriage

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations – we’re doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

Marriage…it’s not a word, it’s a sentence.

If President Barack Obama wants me to allow marriage for same-sex couples in my country (Zimbabwe), he must come here so that I marry him first.

Texas is such a perfect backdrop for the start of our marriage, the setting of our wedding in the woods really influenced the décor and feel of our big day.

We thought,’ What’s the point in waiting years and years if we already know we’re going to be committed to each other forever ?’ So may forever start now, it is a blessing to find a husband or wife in this life, marriage is a profound and special thing, and we are so excited to finally be husband and wife.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he will love you, that he will respect you, that he will honor you, that he will be absolutely true to you, that he will give you the freedom of expression and let you fly in the development of your own talents. He is not going to be perfect, but if he is kind and thoughtful, if he knows how to work and earn a living, if he is honest and full of faith, the chances are you will not go wrong, that you will be immensely happy.

Under the plan of heaven, the husband and the wife walk side by side as companions, neither one ahead of the other, but a daughter of God and a son of God walking side by side. Let your families be families of love and peace and happiness.

Will you marry me? Do you have any money? Answer the second question first.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.

Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live in an institution?

Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It’s harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next.

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I’m tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It’s hilarious. So we decided that I’m going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you’re dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That’s a normal marriage.

If you’ve gone into a marriage and you haven’t been clear about how you’re going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home, or what have you, then you’ve set yourself up for failure.

If I am asked what I think about family life after 25 years of marriage, I can answer with equal simplicity and conviction, I am for it.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

If you get married they think you’re finished and if you are without a woman they think you’re incomplete.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

It’s a woman’s business to get married as soon as possible, and a man’s to keep unmarried as long as he can.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Marriage happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one’s life, and the foundation of happiness or misery.

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

“I am” is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that “I do” is the longest sentence?

I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman

A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.

Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.

Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which is never advisable

We have found that marriage should be made up of two forgivers. We need to learn to say, “I was wrong, I’m sorry.” And we also need to say, “That’s all right, I love you.

The Bible stresses that a marriage ideally should be a picture or a reflection of Christ’s love for His people.

The secret of marriage is separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

I think marriage is the hottest furnace of the spirit today. Much more difficult than solitude, much more challenging for people who want to work on themselves. It’s a situation in which there are no alibis, excruciating most of the time … but it’s only in this situation that any kind of work can be done.

The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state

I’ll see what I can do to keep Mother and Dad together until you finish college, Pidge, but after that I’m going to come back here and live my own life

Surely we must have something more to contribute to marriage than our bodies.

A temporary insanity curable by marriage

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.

I don’t think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

I don’t know if I’m ever getting married. I’m probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people took a chance and they did it. We don’t have the guts that Romeo did.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

A wedding is an event, but marriage is a life.