Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that's the position I take.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.

Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned.

Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

I would like to thank those who spoke boldly against the 'gay marriage float' in the 2014 Rose Parade. Apparently, that vigorous opposition came from perhaps millions of people, and it had a significant influence on how the matter was handled on network and cable television.

With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught me patience. They've also taught me that I don't need to feel guilty about being happy. My emotional seasons are less extreme.

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children.

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

I don't know about marriage as much as I do know that I'd be a great father.

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian.

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage - everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.

It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot... I've seen all these marriages that failed. Those people are always hollering at each other. That doesn't work.

To me marriage is for five or ten years.

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.

I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.

I feel that heterosexual marriage is the more excellent way, and it surely is approved holy by the Holy Bible, and it holds so many more possibilities: the possibilities of having children of both the mother and father, the male and the female.

I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

I yearned for a long, happy marriage with one person.

I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this.