Happy the marriage where the husband is the head and the wife the heart.
Marriage is a sack full of ninety-nine snakes and one eel.
The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the “I do” of the wedding ritual in all sincerity, it is the testing of that vow over time that makes you married.
The central issue in the marriage is not well-being or happiness. It is, as this book has tried to demonstrate, salvation. Marriage involves not only a man and a woman who happily love each other and raise offspring together, but rather two people wh...
We tell ourselves that intimacy (and marriage) takes two people who are willing to work at it-but, unfortunately, we rarely have the slightest inkling of our "job" assignments in this project.
If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is legal to enjoy the same economic advantages that federal laws now grant to straight couples? Or is it a 'co...
I have to wonder at what point the people fighting to protect marriage will realize that traditional couples haven’t exactly been doing too good a job of it so far.
In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Connections only caused a ripping pain no one deserved.
Marriage is contagious and so is monogamy.
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.
I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.
I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.
With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.
