3 December 2020 Julie Christie I’ve never quite understood why people marry marriage is just an invented structure.
3 December 2020 Guy de Maupassant It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
3 December 2020 Mary Augusta Ward For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
3 December 2020 Harold Nicolson The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
3 December 2020 Margaret Sanger 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.
3 December 2020 Ryan Adams I routinely never discuss my marriage. It’s nice to have things in my life that are totally mine.
3 December 2020 Johnny Carson If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
3 December 2020 Sacha Guitry An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren’t.
3 December 2020 Kirstie Alley I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I’d rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.
3 December 2020 Gary Bauer My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.
3 December 2020 Archie Panjabi There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, ‘I’m going to introduce you to so-and-so – If you don’t like them, fair enough.’
3 December 2020 Esther Williams Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I’d pay.
3 December 2020 Carol Vorderman My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn’t have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 – a baby.
3 December 2020 Andre Maurois A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard Never get married in college it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.
3 December 2020 Rob Brydon The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don’t think I equate career success with personal happiness.
3 December 2020 William Hague Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.
3 December 2020 Steve Winwood A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you’ve got to do it – but of course it does cause problems.
3 December 2020 Florence King American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.
3 December 2020 Rick Santorum Isn’t that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?
3 December 2020 Keith O'Brien I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.
3 December 2020 Lisa Guerrero I’m looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes.
3 December 2020 Jennifer Garner The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
3 December 2020 Mika Brzezinski I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the symptoms worse and everyone in the house paid the price.
3 December 2020 Keith O'Brien If marriage can be redefined so that it no longer means a man and a woman but two men or two women, why stop there? Why not allow three men or a woman and two men to constitute a marriage?
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
