MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Ambrose Bierce

This is not how he wanted his marriage to end.

Terry Kindlon

So he bought me two cases and I took another number. In the end, the beer lasted longer than the marriage.

John Kruk

Lifelong experience in marriage research, public education and advocacy.

Maggie Gallagher

Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.

Margita Thompson

The fact is that God instituted human marriage in the Garden of Eden, and it was one man with one woman. God has not changed that.

Adrian Brown

In states that Kerry had to be competitive in, he was less competitive because gay marriage was on the ballot — starting with Ohio.

Tony Quinn

I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.

Catherine Deneuve

Later marriage is very strongly associated with higher levels of education. That's why people in the Northeast have such a late age of marriage.

David Popenoe

FM is hard on a marriage.

Carolyn Scott

He's Perry Como's kid by another marriage.

Don Rickles

It was the perfect marriage.

Albano Martell

Our intent is to inform (acting Gov. Codey) that there is a great voting bloc that are for marriage of one man to one woman.

David Ireland

The First Bond of Society is Marriage.

Cicero

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Boris Pasternak

There is a crisis in America. That crisis is divorce. It is easier to get out of a marriage than (to get out of a) contract to buy a used car.

Mike Huckabee

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

Richard Pryor

It's up to the legislature to determine whether marriage should be extended to same-sex marriage.

Peter Schiff

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Joe Murray

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

Amy Grant

The court says ministers must differentiate — same-sex holy unions and marriage for everyone else. Janie's conduct is challenging that.

Timothy Cahn

It will be a marriage of science, engineering, public policy and education.

John Cronin

People want a clear vote on marriage.

Kris Mineau

There's no strain in Madonna's marriage. Her relationship with Guy is quite good. They're quite happy.

Liz Rosenberg

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy.

Stephen Sondheim

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.

Calvin Trillin

Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.

Joe Moore

I'll bet, ... But you know, I look from the outside at this marriage and I say, 'Jane Fonda did it again. She allowed a man to change her.' .

Lesley Stahl

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

Gloria Steinem

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

Professor Irwin Corey

It can absolutely drive you crazy, ... But it's just the way he is. In 29 years [of marriage], he hasn't changed. I think there is a part of me that has to know that he is not going to change. He thinks it through.

Lance Reynolds

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.

Wilson Mizner

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

Milton R. Sapirstein

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

Raquel Welch

If we repealed all the laws of the world, ... marriage would still exist.

Tom Mcclintock

They need to bring some documentation ... if they have had an addition to their family, they need to bring the birth certificate; if they were married, they need to bring the marriage certificate.

Bob Hergert

The marriage crisis is not caused by gay and lesbian couples. It's just not wise, it's not kind or compassionate to be conducting this kind of social experiment.

Maggie Gallagher

Rhode Island and New York don't have clear definitions of marriage in their statutes or constitutions.

Dale Schowengerdt

You could call it marriage counseling. Hard marriage counseling. Three to five years in, it's a time to get in and re-fix the charter.

Michael Slavin

I teach about war, murder, capital punishment, sex and marriage, homosexuality, the environment -- who isn't interested about this stuff?

Prof. Charles Mathewes

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

Liz Smith

Marriage is a wonderful invention, but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit!

Billy Connelly

Sometimes we misunderstand each other, but after all, isn't that the definition of a marriage?

Sir Howard Stringer

Marriage isn't for life any more -- life is too long. Marriage is for love. Love gladly accepts responsibility. Love wants commitment. Marriage should be celebrated as the optimistic and glorious thing that it is. We can't call it a failure if it doesn't last forever.

Jeanette Winterson

When one person in a marriage is going to the Internet to get sex, it erodes the intimacy in the marriage.

Jenn Berman

You have seen nothing like marriage for increasing the love between two people.

Al tirmidhi

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

Kahlil Gibran

I think it's a wonderful marriage.

David Elias

Clearly, looking at the 2004 presidential election the issue of same-sex marriage resonated with African Americans.

Lamell Mcmorris

You never can see into someone else's marriage.

Sean Stewart

There are five swing states that on Election Day have gay marriage bans on the ballot.

Carlos Watson

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

Jane Harrison

It's time to either defend the marriage penalty or eliminate it altogether.

Deborah Pryce

Gay people should have the right to enter into a legal, governmental marriage on the exact same terms that everyone else can.

Mary Bonauto

Not diluting the marriage between a man and a woman.

Barney Frank

We find out what's in the hatch very quickly. I can tell you that much. There's also more about Jack's marriage and why Shannon's so screwed up.

Maggie Grace

The Coalition for Marriage.

Michael Heath

We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.

Daniel Drew

If more can be encouraged to participate in marriage preparation, divorces will be reduced.

Alan Hawkins

Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!

Ben Affleck

Consequently, cohabitation becomes an acceptable halfway relationship, which can be dissolved more easily than a marriage.

Wang Xun

This is Camilla's biggest challenge in six months of marriage. She has got to make the Americans love her.

Judy Wade

If a man contributes fairly it seems to have a lot of ramifications for the rest of the marriage.

Neil Chethik

The state of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts is strong.

Gary Buseck

It's like a collaboration. It's a marriage between the written word, music and imagery. Really, how often do you have that?

Michelle Voigt

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.

Ogden Nash

I'm excited about space through marriage to him.

Rita Wilson

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

Judith Wright

I would never put my own personal marriage on television.

Nicole Richie

It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it.

Dick Smothers

Across time and culture and different religions, marriage has been the basic unit of the family, which is the basic unit of society.

Jeff Cavins

Lord knows marriage between two people is difficult as it is, but these folks have a mountain to climb to be together. But that's what they want to do.

Dan Sammons

The death of our son was one of the roughest times we had in our marriage. But we leaned on one another 100 percent.

Howard Martin

We think about the future, but not marriage. I just hope we're always happy.

Joel Madden

Homosexuals are attempting to redefine the family and what constitutes marriage, ... And because they cannot reproduce, they must recruit children into their movement.

Louis Sheldon

I've had lots of offers of marriage and from women wanting to have my kids.

Gareth Gates

On the other hand, old people who have lived most of their lives are set in their habits and therefore have far more difficulty adapting themselves to a new marriage than young people.

Wang Xun

I'm someone who's always looked forward to marriage. My parents being together for so long made marriage that much more important.

Greg Kinnear

We have tried to have a debate on the floor on same-sex marriage and we have been shut down again and again.

Anthony O'donnell

It's a great show; it's always been a great marriage of Stephen King, an action show and a family drama, and I don't think there's anything else like it on TV.

Jeff Wachtel

Marriage is not just about two loving and committed people. Marriage is a social institution that provides a social good, and a public good.

Julaine Appling

The marriage amendment should have gotten passed, ... I really don't understand what the problem was with that.

George Cleveland

It's a case that had everything, ... There's multiple murders, there's a famous former football player who had become an actor, there are drugs, there's sex, there's violence, there's interracial marriage.

Todd Boyd

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

William Hazlitt

It can save your marriage.

Karen Altfest

All they have to do is show up and bring their marriage license.

Lydia Ruth

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Walter: Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it.

Sleepless In Seattle

Those who don't like it complain of the same-old, same-old: stale conceptions of marriage set in stale story lines, in which Daisy the dog has the most interesting expressions of the entire crew.

Kathleen Turner

It's been an interesting 35 years. I mean, this is a marriage, and it's the most successful one I've ever had.

Rex Fowler

Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.

Quentin Crisp

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

The first two years are years of adjustment. And typically a pattern is set for the rest of the marriage.

Kathy T. Heustess

It's bittersweet because we're being treated as second-class citizens. It's not full marriage equality.

Randy Sharp

We thought of it as trying to be a marriage broker or at least start the dating process.

Matthew Wagner

The reason marriage is fundamentally different from a civil contract is that marriage is formed for a fundamental purpose — that is to bring a new life into the world.

Tom Mcclintock

They don't get to self-disclose too much. Its more of marriage education.

Joyce Kirkendall

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows--marriage does.

Groucho Marx

This does have serious implications for not only the business world but for marriage and family. Are all these educated women going to allow themselves to fall in love with men who haven't achieved as much?

Sarah Pappas

These girls' only life trajectory is marriage, and being a teacher is a pretty good job.

Sherryl Broverman

I was faced with no job, my marriage had just ended, I had two children I had to take care of, my schooling wasn't finished. I was just kind of at rock bottom and I thought, you know, what am I gonna do?

Adrienne Gonzalez

This is (a) 30 years ago marriage, so nobody keeps all these papers, we never need it.

Pappu Singh

He's been very active in opposing our marriage protection amendment.

Diane Gramley

It's a little like a marriage. It's never just one side as to why it breaks up. The question is, can this marriage be saved?

Scott Palmer

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

Brendan Francis

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

Dora Russell

We get guys in here all the time saying, 'Pray for my marriage, pray for my family.

Nick Hines

We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God.

Amy Levy

There is a French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.''.

De Finod

Failing to keep my marriage together.

Harold Nicholson

We are paying attention to this in the larger context of the gay-marriage debate. We see it as all one piece that is interconnected.

Charmaine Yoest

The difference is that we have marriage. We've got a world that hasn't changed.

Jarrett Barrios

If it were permitted to be accomplished through a second marriage, that would have been the medium.

Robert Noel

Two common reasons are people have a death or a marriage dissolution and they put taxes on the back burner.

Bill Brunson

Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage.

Stephanie Coontz

There are lots of ways to register assets, but you need to decide which way is best for your marriage.

Judy Martindale

I think it is a good marriage between our facilities.

Marvin Reeves

Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.

Les Dawson

It's kind of like marriage times two. You're 24-7.

Laurie Corbelli

Gay marriage has begun, and life has not changed for the citizens of the commonwealth, with the exception of those who can now marry, ... This amendment which was an appropriate measure or compromise a year ago, is no longer, I feel, a compromise today.

Brian Lees

He's following a line from the Republican National Committee about what their wedge issue of the year is going to be. In 2004 it was gay marriage; this year it's illegal immigration.

Brian Melendez

Most people don't get serious about planning until something big happens in their life, like marriage, divorce, having kids. When I see someone in their 20s who is already on the ball with their finances, the first thing I do is congratulate them.

Judi Martindale

I think marriage is a bundle of sticks and sticks include procreation.

Judge Jerome Farris

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

Gloria Steinem

The majority of Texans believe marriage is between a man and a woman. The biggest issue we have is getting the word out. Most people have no idea this election is coming.

Kelly Shackelford

They vote primarily on cultural issues, like protecting traditional marriage.

Matthew Wilson

There hasn't been much research into marriage and relationships.

Karl Lenz

I have to be asked, but I love the idea of marriage. I'm happier than I ever thought I could be, Ellen's incredible.

Portia De Rossi

Lord willing, I'll be back. Casey is thrilled, and from Day 1 [of their marriage], he couldn't wait to be a father.

Jennie Finch

We thank Governor Schwarzenegger for doing the right thing by vetoing 'gay marriage' licenses.

Randy Thomasson

We all face storms in life, whether it is a storm like Katrina, a storm in a marriage, or a storm in our finances.

Franklin Graham

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

Gloria Steinem

These decisions have been taken to restore the dignity and beauty of marriage and family and for the respect of God's commandments.

Father Gelase Mugerowimana

There are homosexuals in the world, and they should not be excluded based on their sexuality. I draw the line at marriage.

Shelby Steele

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

Michael Enzi

We are very concerned that Will Perkins' aim is to re-enact his denial of civil rights to same-sex couples. We would hotly dispute the notion that domestic partnerships are the same as marriage.

Sean Duffy

How fitting at this time to ponder the meaning of marriage and relationship.

Jeff Buhrman

Sometimes your coach will set you up, like an arranged marriage. Which is what happened to us.

Andrew Pueschel

Even people who don't understand same sex marriage understand this country never, ever allowed for second-class citizenship. This battle will be won eventually.

Deb Price

This is a highly charged issue among Alabama evangelicals — to protect the sanctity of traditional marriage.

John Giles

You have somebody who is a fit natural parent and somebody who claims that they should have rights to a child, even though they do not have any legal relation to the child either by blood or marriage.

Frank Mylar

I never could have considered that if I were part of a couple. Even now I'm not sure it will pay off. But in a marriage, I would have felt that I was not pulling my weight.

Bella Depaulo

Our marriage license is in the water.

Scott Jackson

Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Vicki Baum

Today's turn of events brings me great sadness, ... I had hoped to keep this marriage together.

Donna Hanover

To be honest, if I hadn't gone through a marriage split-up and Paul hadn't, we probably would have kept most of him but financially we couldn't afford to at the time.

Paul Moroney

Amending the state constitution may be the only way to prevent activist judges from destructively reshaping the centuries-old definition of marriage.

Bill Scranton

Sacramento's my new love, so I'm going to take this first date and hopefully make a marriage out of it.

Bonzi Wells

I've never seen anybody work so hard on a marriage. She was upbeat.

Ginger Magoon

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you break up a marriage you have to suffer the repercussions of the lack of trust that is then brought into it when we get back to Canberra in February.

Senator Barnaby Joyce

Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.

Al Bundy

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Queen Victoria

There are definite political ramifications to a court-imposed same-sex marriage.

Joseph Fuiten

Combining art and the tea is a wonderful marriage, ... It's slightly educational, with a fun twist.

Beverly Becker

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dr. James C. Dobson

I won't tell you about the love that happened when I was three years old, but I can tell you about my first marriage.

Leon Theremin

This is not a love match but a very sober marriage of convenience.

Matthias Platzeck

I come back and still seek advice on my marriage and on anything else that's going on in my life.

Robert Cooper

This series captured Austen's interest in showing the feelings of desire between Elizabeth and Darcy, ... The director managed to communicate that this is a book about what constitutes a good marriage, and that is love.

Helen Thompson

He meant Doyle. I know my son. But . . . I can't be sure. Ray used to take care of me. I used to know him. To me, Millie is a Johnny-come-lately. I don't know much about this last marriage.

Leila Smith

The point is that the history of marriage is a history of constant change. I think it's hard to argue that this change is somehow fundamentally different from the others.

Jon Davidson

Before marriage, a man will lay down his life for you; after marriage he won't even lay down his newspaper.

Helen Rowland

That is exactly the point. We believe marriage is better than cohabitation for heterosexual couples.

Peter Sprigg

They recognized the importance of the same-sex marriage decision. We're a bit of an egalitarian state, and we don't like elites making these decisions for us ... courts don't have the legitimacy it seems to me that a popular vote would have.

Joseph Fuiten

Honor your divorce and your new life the same way you honored your marriage.... And if you didn't honor your marriage, learn your lesson and honor your divorce.

April Masini

I don't think you ever go into a marriage to fail.

Loni Anderson

A successful marriage requires maturity and patience, which we often don't have early on in the marriage.

Doug Brinley

Bill was instrumental in passing the Georgia amendment defining marriage. He is a proven conservative.

Sadie Fields

Every marriage of an intellectual with the communist party ends in adultery.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

This legislature's vote could be reversed, and not only could we lose civil marriage equality, we could also backpedal and lose domestic partner benefits.

Patrick Guerriero

Men recognize marriage is going to be a roller coaster. But they're willing to ride it out because they like the company.

Neil Chethik

Nobody wants to lose a job or a marriage.

Joel Blackmon

We believe the only way he can rectify this is by simply allowing the marriage amendment to come out of the Senate Judiciary Committee and come to the Senate floor for a fair and open and honest debate. That's all we're asking for.

Chuck Darrell

Fashion and computers are going to have a very long and healthy life together. We're just learning what these marriage proposals are and I think there's all kinds of exciting possibilities.

Fern Mallis

The book itself is not filled with sensational revelations, ... It's filled with a new explanation of what went wrong with that marriage.

Penny Junor

Sexual relations are a reflection of the quality of the marriage.

Doug Brinley

They've already been married and I think many people find it degrading to pretend that their marriage doesn't exist, ... They shouldn't have to forfeit their marriage license at the Connecticut border.

Mary Bonauto

She was not in a happy marriage. That's all she complained to us about, or she wouldn't have never been sleeping with my son. I'm sorry, plain and simple, that's what she was doing.

Sharon Bradford

We've had 19 consecutive votes on same-sex marriage bans, ... Eighteen states have passed them.

Matt Foreman

The only thing that stands in the way of the legalization of same-sex marriage in Minnesota is the church.

Chuck Darrell

I believe in the traditional definition of marriage, period.

Laurie Hawn

Marriage is a big deal. We're not ready to settle down.

Andy Davis

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

Ricky Skaggs

I will not officiate over a same-sex marriage or civil union. That goes against all of God's teachings.

Jeff Powell

We're planning our marriage next week.

Samantha Morton

I have a feeling this is destiny. [On the eve of her third marriage].

Christie Brinkley

My future Plans - Marriage, a villa and 10 kids.

Peta Wilson

He starts to get violent when Ii told him the marriage is over.

Biafra Thomas

A marriage license isn't just a piece of paper. It represents full inclusion among Vermont families.

Beth Robinson

A good marriage is like a good trade: Each thinks he got the better deal.

Ivern Ball

Getting out of marriage won't automatically make anything better. Your happiness is your own responsibility.

Tina B. Tessina

Marriage is the foundational structure of society.

Kelly Shackelford

The baby's real, ... But the marriage is all smoke and mirrors.

Blake Kerr

This law is clearly about marriage. That is the issue.

Tim Russell

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

Thornton Wilder

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Warren Beatty

Keystone was a very important part of our business. We build helicopters, they did the completion that finished our helicopters. We knew the company and were impressed with the company. The marriage has enhanced the both of us.

Ed Steadham

It's like a marriage, literally. I spend more time with Adam than with my wife.

Edward Kitsis

Each year, they tried to fit you for a new one. That was a no-no for me, ... To me, it was just like marriage. I wanted one wife; I wanted one helmet.

Eric Hill