Marriage Quotes

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.

And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks.

But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.

The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there.

My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.

I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.