I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different.

I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.

My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.

Marriage has historically, as long as there's been human history, meant a man and a woman in a relationship for life. Once we change that definition, then where does it go from there?

Marriage should be reinforced, not redefined.

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.

I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.

Marriage is a lot more challenging when you have a demanding career.

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

I've never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple - gay or straight - should be able to get married.

Although my marriage left me with three beautiful children, it also left me with a healthy dose of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and an extreme desire to be loved again. I was operating on empty, expecting to be paid in full.

I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don't know that they can be recognised as marriage.

I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage.

I married beneath me, all women do.

I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

No offense, but I don't get the whole concept of arranged marriage. I'd rather know the person who I'll settle down with.

I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.

I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage.

While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them.

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

I believe that all men and women are created equal, but it took our country until 1920 to acknowledge this for women. And then it took until 1964, the year before I was born, to outlaw discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. And same-sex marriage became the law of the land in 2015.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'

It's nice to be able to work; I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it.

Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature.

By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

Marriage can provide a bounty of emotional, practical, and financial support. But finding the right mate is no substitute for having friends and other interests.

Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women.

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

God invented concubinage, satan marriage.