My dad is Chinese, and my mom is a white American, and they married only ten years after the United States Supreme Court ruled that it was illegal to ban mixed marriages. Imagine that. Marriages between people of different races – now common and accepted – were illegal in many states up until the late Sixties.
All marriages are happy. It’s the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
My parents are proof that arranged marriages can work. It is a great part of my culture but I grew up in a completely different place, so I wouldn’t want anyone to arrange a marriage for me.
I don’t need to marry again. I’ve been married twice, and I love it when it works, but these days we live until we’re 80 and marriages are jolly long.
Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?
Actually, everyone in India does some jugaad in their lives, whether in school, college, marriages, work etc. And most of us have different jugaads for different situations.
In love marriages, you at least know your partner. A known devil is better than an unknown one!
Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.
I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It’s just very public when they fail.
The argument that gay marriage doesn’t affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.
In any family, the joy of a wedding must be tinged with a little anxiety. So many marriages fail. Luckily, people often get over such traumas. But for the Royal Family, marriages carry the gravest dangers.
I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn’t think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn’t see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off.
All marriages, all relationships have huge ups and downs.
The only thing that I find repetitive is the number of marriages I have arranged in films. That is one thing I stay away from in real life.
There are two kinds of marriages – where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.
I am all for love marriage. I am not the kind of person who can be instructed to fall in love. I am not saying that it cannot happen. Most of my family members met the person and decided to get married. Their marriages have worked beautifully.
Even though my first marriage broke up, I’d say that I’ve had two good marriages and two good men. I’ve been very lucky. I like to think it’s karma because, in a relationship, I give 300 per cent. I’m straight with my men, and I like to think it comes back.
If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
In Hollywood, there is no bigger commitment you can make than to a TV series. Even marriages pale in comparison. Marriages don’t require signing iron-clad multiyear contracts. At least, most first marriages don’t.
How many people have had starter marriages? For some reason, mine really offends people.
All of my marriages lasted seven years.
France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are ‘made in America.’
Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.
I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can’t even talk about my own handicap because it’s too upsetting.
I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24×7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.
I personally think that people should spend more time and money on their marriages instead of weddings.
We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.
I’m certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who’ve ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids.
I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
We humans can get used to anything. It really is remarkable. The problem is that we often use this glorious ability of ours to stay stuck in mediocrity. Oh, the years we waste adapting to lousy marriages, soul-sucking jobs, being friends with people who are rude to waitresses.
The great marriages are partnerships. It can’t be a great marriage without being a partnership.
Marriages don’t last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
I always admire the French and the Italians who are very devoted to their marriages. They take them extremely seriously, but it is understood that there might be other visitors at 5 o’clock in the afternoon. You just never boast about. They never say anything, but that’s what keeps marriages together.
I don’t remember my first two marriages… the details are very sketchy.
Some people will always think they know how to make other people’s marriages better, and, after a while, they’ll get to cudgeling you or selling you something; the really entrepreneurial types will sell you the cudgel.
I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I’ve seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.
It’s such a big deal, the notion that these enslaved Africans had marriages and children… because therein lies our humanity, our capacity for love.
Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands.
When I was eight, I would go crazy dancing in marriages. During Ganpati, I would dance on the street all night. I loved music and would be mad about dancing.
Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.
I’m not a great believer in marriages as an institution, or even in very long term relationships. I’m not sure we’re built that way.
Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.
Marriages break up over renovating a house. Really, they do.
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
Bahai Iranians are barred from holding government jobs, their children are excluded from the nation’s university system, their marriages are not recognized and their cemeteries and holy places have been desecrated. It is government policy to incite hatred of Bahais in the official media.
Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.
I don’t like being a voyeur, looking into other people’s marriages.
I admire people’s marriages, and I think it’s a wonderful thing to have, but I don’t think it’s the only way to live. I think there are many ways to live and many ways to establish intimate support in your life that can be from family or friends or great roommates that you like.
Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it’s obviously such a strange lifestyle.
Men tell me that I’ve saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it’s cheaper than a divorce. So I’m still useful, you see.
Gen X entrepreneurs are frequently smart, tough, tenacious, and self-made. That said, to succeed in their companies, they often have sacrificed being emotionally involved in their marriages and with their children.
I love my play ‘The Trials and Tribulations Of A Trailer Trash Housewife’ because I get these letters from all of these women who literally have left their spouses who were abusing them. You know, I’m just breaking up marriages right and left. But, that need to be broken up.
The truth is that most marriages have food as a major player in them, and certainly mine does.
Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn’t marry someone for the ‘operational efficiencies’ they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason?
I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and indicated that he would support a constitutional amendment.
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
