marriage
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘marriage’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“I believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon, we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard, if you make it work, it’s blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn’t working can be painful.” -Donny Osmond
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“The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.” -Demi Moore
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“God invented concubinage, satan marriage.” -Francis Picabia
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“You know, there were major problems in my marriage.” -Hulk Hogan
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“For me it’s also – the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.” -Katey Sagal
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“We’ll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we’ll have to start thinking about that.” -Prince William
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“And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.” -John Boehner
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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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“A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.” -Queen Victoria
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“Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.” -Gene Simmons
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“I was born to be married. I just feel comfortable there. I love the idea of being partnered for ever. I love my girlfriend, we’ve been best friends since I was 18. There’s not a thing we haven’t been through except for marriage… We’ve had talks about what we would name our kids since we…
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“I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.” -Benjamin Spock
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“Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!” -Ben Affleck
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“The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it absolutely should be decided by the Supreme Court as quickly as possible. It’s a 14th Amendment issue. There’s no argument about it.” -Tony Kushner
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“In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.” -Jane Smiley
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“I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the right girl, the life I had before – being single, in a band, girls everywhere – would be over.” -Gary Numan
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“Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.” -Gary Vaynerchuk
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“It’s so easy to grow apart marriage takes work.” -Courteney Cox
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“Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.” -Sumner Redstone
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“Most Americans don’t care about gay marriage.” -Dan Savage
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“Marriage is a lot of things – a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it’s also an interpersonal battlefield, and it’s not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids – now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of…
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“I’ve had two terrific relationships, but both ended in marriage.” -Jane Seymour
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“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.” -Marc Chagall
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“Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it’s our business.” -Gwyneth Paltrow
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“There’s already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk – except they all apply to you, and all at once.” -Sloane Crosley
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“I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I’d like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you’ve done that, your marriage becomes everybody else’s business.” -Katherine Jenkins
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“Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.” -Imran Khan
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“Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.” -J. B. Priestley
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“My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.” -Kyle Chandler
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“You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.” -Omar Khayyam
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“Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.” -Karl Rove
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“It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic – another joke marriage.” -Sophia Bush
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“One doesn’t have to get anywhere in a marriage. It’s not a public conveyance.” -Iris Murdoch
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“Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.” -John Sununu
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“I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it’s one of the most important institutions we have.” -Theresa May
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“Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.” -Sam Ewing
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“Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.” -Mike Myers
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“There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.” -Alexander Theroux
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“Marriage equality changed life for people.” -Andrew Cuomo
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“Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.” -Douglas William Jerrold
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“A miracle… my biggest accomplishment is my marriage so far. Because it’s hard, everyone knows it’s hard.” -Gwen Stefani
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“When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William’s marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. ‘Wet’ is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin’.” -Snoop Dogg
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“I don’t think there’s anything they can say about me that I haven’t said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other we have fun together – it’s…
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“On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I’m constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I’ve been on.” -Madonna…
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“A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.” -Anthony Trollope
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“I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I’m not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.” -Amy…
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“Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.” -E. W. Howe
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“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.” -Phil McGraw
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“Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.” -Dennis Miller
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“Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader’s daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.” -John le Carre
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“I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don’t regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can’t have it all.” -Lauren Bacall
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“I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.” -Linda Evans
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“The only day I remember of my parents’ marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.” -Ellie Goulding
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“In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving – instead of actually getting up and leaving.” -Erica Jong
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“It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.” -Herbert Samuel
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“Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.” -Jeanette Winterson
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“My father was very big on marriage.” -Sidney Poitier
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“Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.” -Iain Duncan Smith
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“I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I’m more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did,…
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“Marriage is a risk I think it’s a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.” -Cate Blanchett
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“Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.” -Christopher Lasch
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“Marriage is gonna be your stability through everything.” -Miranda Lambert
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“Marriage is a big deal, but who’s to say I’m not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it’s like for a minute?” -Lindsay Lohan
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“Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.” -Henry Adams
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“I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn’t.” -Diane Abbott
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“I didn’t think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable – that it was something they just put up with for their children.” -Salma Hayek
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“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.” -J. C. Watts
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“I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.” -Dennis Rodman
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“The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop.” -John Updike
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“Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.” -Pearl S. Buck
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“I’ve always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.” -Stephen Harper
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“Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn’t work for many people.” -Katherine Heigl
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“A marriage doesn’t have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.” -Jessica Simpson
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“I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. That’s my view, and that’ll be the view of our state because I wouldn’t sign a bill that – like the one that was in New York.” -Chris Christie
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“It’s nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.” -Carrie Underwood
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“Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.” -Benjamin Carson
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“The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it’s a faith issue, it’s a religious issue.” -Jim Wallis
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“A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.” -Debra Winger
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“Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There’s immense happiness that can come from working towards that.” -Nick Cave
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“There are four stages in a marriage. First there’s the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.” -Norman Mailer
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“Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me… as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it’s one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you’re gay.” -Gus Van Sant
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“Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet – it was a marriage of convenience!” -Tommy Cooper
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“I couldn’t bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.” -Clive Owen
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“Of all actions of a man’s life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.” -John Selden
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“Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.” -Warren Beatty
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“Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.” -Henrik Ibsen
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“You know what’s funny? I don’t ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises – I don’t see that happening to me.” -Harry Connick, Jr.
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“You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.” -Carly Fiorina
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“If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?” -Tony Campolo
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“The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman’s finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.” -Margaret Sanger
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“Right now, I’m not really thinking about marriage.” -Adam Lambert
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“There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn’t feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.” -Dionne Warwick
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“Marriage, at this point in my life? I’m not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I’m 35 or 40.” -Amanda Seyfried
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“Marriage has just never interested me.” -Jacqueline Bisset
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“Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.” -Rashida Jones
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“Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.” -William Hague
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“When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.” -Francois Rabelais
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“If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.” -Johnny Carson
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“Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.” -Samuel Richardson
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“Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.” -Hesiod
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“I’m completely comfortable with gay marriage.” -Elizabeth Edwards
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“Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.” -Nicolas Chamfort
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“I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I’ve been much happier unmarried than married.” -Doris Lessing
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“When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.” -Robert Anton Wilson
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“It’s not someone else’s responsibility to honor my marriage. It’s my responsibility.” -David Duchovny
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“I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.” -Herman Cain
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“I don’t have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress… ? No. It’s not something for me.” -Diane Kruger
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“The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is, that one is male and the other female.” -Anna Quindlen
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“I’m not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.” -Natalie Portman
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“The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.” -Jon Meacham
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“Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That’s what it couldn’t stand.” -James Taylor
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“Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.” -LaToya Jackson
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“Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.” -Herbert Spencer
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“Marriage is obsolete and a trap.” -Catherine Deneuve
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“In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.” -Jessica Savitch
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“I’ll always be sad that my marriage ended.” -Shania Twain
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“The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily – that’s the tragedy.” -Olivia Wilde
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“When you’re a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother’s assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.” -Louis C. K.
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“I don’t understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.” -Kristin Chenoweth
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“It was a perfect marriage. She didn’t want to and he couldn’t.” -Spike Milligan
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“I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I’ve always thought that it’s counterproductive to have a theory on that.” -Jack Nicholson
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“Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.” -Tertullian
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“I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.” -Ava Gardner
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“After marriage, the other man’s wife looks more beautiful.” -Navjot Singh Sidhu
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“I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.” -Richard Pryor
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“Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.” -Bono
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“We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.” -Pope Benedict XVI
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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.” -Monica Bellucci
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“Marriage? It’s like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.” -Francoise Sagan
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“Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.” -Helen Rowland
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“I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.” -Tori Amos
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“Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.” -Camille Paglia
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“I come from divorce. I’m only doing marriage once. It’s not a game for me.” -Shia LaBeouf
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“The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.” -Denis Diderot
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“Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.” -Joyce Brothers
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“In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that’s ever happened to me.” -Caroline Kennedy
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“The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That’s really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.” -Candace Cameron Bure
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“During last night’s debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.” -Conan O’Brien
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“The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That’s why we didn’t sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions.” -Katy Perry
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“The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can’t black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?” -Henry Louis Gates
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“The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn’t get a divorce for almost a year.” -Hedy Lamarr
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“Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It’s about something greater. It’s about acceptance.” -Charlize Theron
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“Never stay in a bad marriage, and don’t hang around with psycho coke fiends.” -Joe Rogan
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“Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.” -Andrea Dworkin
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“I don’t know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.” -Jeff Bridges
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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.” -Allan Sherman
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“Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.” -Franz Kafka
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“If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.” -Michael Enzi
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“I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn’t have to get one.” -James Carville
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“What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.” -Gertrude Stein
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“But marriage goes in waves. You’ve got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don’t put the work and the effort into it. You’ve got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.” -Anna Benson
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“Inspirations never go in for long engagements they demand immediate marriage to action.” -Brendan Francis
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“I firmly believe in marriage. It’s a real important decision that takes a lot of dedication and time. If you’re thinking about divorce. You shouldn’t get married.” -Seth Green
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“I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.” -William Shatner
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“Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.” -Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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“I didn’t want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they’ve missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.” -Alanis Morissette
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“Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.” -Washington Irving
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“Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor – they have children that they don’t want or they cannot feed.” -Isabel Allende
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“I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It’s kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It’s thrilling.” -Hugh Jackman
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“They say marriage will change you but it didn’t change me. Being in love changed me.” -R. Kelly
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“Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner – the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It’s like opening Pandora’s box.” -Jennifer Aniston
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“I’ve always been suspicious of TV, I’ve always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.” -Keith Richards
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“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.” -Jean Cocteau
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“After about 20 years of marriage, I’m finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.” -Mel Gibson
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“I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.” -Rita Rudner
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“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.” -Gloria Steinem
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“But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it’s not how our similarities work together it’s how our differences work together.” -Michael J. Fox
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