Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn’t even have when you were on your own.
My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I’d like to go fairy tale all the way.
When someone comes up to me and says, ‘Mary, you helped save my marriage’, or, ‘Mary, you helped me get out of this abusive relationship’, I’m in it, really in their lives. And I’m so passionate about my feelings, but also about showing people the way through theirs.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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.
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.
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other’s faults.
Anything that you do in life, whether it’s work or a relationship or marriage, you get into it with a lot of positivity.
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
If I get married, I want to be very married.
I think it’s something that needs to be said – that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there’s nothing wrong with it.
I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.
I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage.
I’m coming out of a long term marriage and I don’t want to jump into anything too serious or too much, too quick.
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.
I’ll always be sad that my marriage ended.
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 found marriage somewhat stifling. I don’t know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.
Once I hit 25, people started asking me about marriage and kids all the time. I remember hitting 35 and some would ask the same questions with a strange tone, as if my life was somehow over because I hadn’t yet settled into their version of happiness.
I think the idea of marriage is very romantic; it’s a beautiful idea, and the practice of it can be a very beautiful thing.
She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.
Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Despite the vigorous policy and legal debates surrounding same-sex marriage, there is little disagreement about this: If the United States Supreme Court holds that states must sanction same-sex marriage, then Florida’s contrary laws must fall.
Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person.
It’s not someone else’s responsibility to honor my marriage. It’s my responsibility.
The fact is, marriage is just a legal piece of paper. I don’t see why the government needs to get involved in what two people do with their lives. It’s none of their business.
The only sense marriage makes is to share property, your children inherit the name and all that… it is all legal reasons to get married and no reason for love.
People would tell me, especially after my marriage to Prince, ‘You need to write a book because you’ve had a crazy life.’
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone’s right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
I find it extremely ironic that Bush says that personal opinion should not be a tool in the interpretation of the Constitution, when he’s the one who’s lobbying for a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. If that doesn’t stem from personal opinion, I don’t know what does.
When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don’t want to marry too late. Around 31?
Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted the whole day.
The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don’t find very often, then that is what love is all about.
It was a perfect marriage. She didn’t want to and he couldn’t.
My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it’s just a number.
In my family, as in all dysfunctional families, instead of parents who act as strong and nurturing role models for their children, you get these needy people who use their children. I was the kid who tried to take on the marriage.
I never looked at my parents’ marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, ‘I gotta get me some of that!’
I’m a believer in arranged marriages. I mean, mine was kind of an arranged marriage. My sister introduced me to my husband. You know, kind of set it up.
For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I’m afraid it did.
Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.
Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you’ll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.
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.
One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.
I feel that whoever isn’t feeling settled in their career won’t think about their marriage.
My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.
Incidents happen that mean more mail. The birth of children, obviously, a sudden religious marriage, the tragic loss of a cat – I had over 2,000 letters when my cat disappeared.
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.
I was a Christian. I didn’t want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.
Be it career or marriage, spirituality helps you believe in yourself.
Husbands are like fires – they go out when they’re left unattended.
Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
