Famous Quotes: Marriage

I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.
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Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
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Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
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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.
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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.
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It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.
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But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.
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After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.
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Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
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I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.
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I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It's not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I'll do it because it's a moment that will stick with me forever.
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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved.
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We believe that marriage, by its very definition, can exist only between a man and a woman. Moreover, study after study - not to mention common sense - show that children fare better in life when raised in a home with a loving father and mother in a stable, committed relationship.
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A miracle... my biggest accomplishment is my marriage so far. Because it's hard, everyone knows it's hard.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
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