3 December 2020 W. H. Auden Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
3 December 2020 Joey Adams A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
3 December 2020 Arsenio Hall I’ve never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.
3 December 2020 Ali Larter But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, ‘Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.’
3 December 2020 Elisabetta Canalis I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married.
3 December 2020 Raymond Hull All marriages are happy. It’s the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
3 December 2020 Steve Chabot 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.
3 December 2020 Tim Allen I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It’s not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I’ll do it because it’s a moment that will stick with me forever.
3 December 2020 Harold Ford I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don’t want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth.
3 December 2020 E. W. Howe Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
3 December 2020 Jeremy Taylor Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
3 December 2020 Maggie Gallagher Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.
3 December 2020 Robin Morgan We can’t destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
3 December 2020 William O. Douglas Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
3 December 2020 Thomas Moore Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
3 December 2020 Mikhail Baryshnikov My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
3 December 2020 Gary Chapman I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn’t make another person feel loved.
3 December 2020 Ogden Nash Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
3 December 2020 Terry Gilliam They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn’t do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I’m trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we’re just finishing editing.
3 December 2020 Peter De Vries The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
3 December 2020 Wendell Pierce New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It’s not just a residual of life it’s a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It’s our culture.
3 December 2020 Sophie Ellis-Bextor My parents separated when I was four. It wasn’t the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can’t have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.
