The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
Marriage is a responsibility, not a swimming pool you can jump into and then just go out of afterwards
Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.
Marriage is more than finding the right person…it is being the right person!
How many people have had starter marriages? For some reason, mine really offends people.
I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important.
Ida 'Big Momma' Pollitt: When marriage goes on the rocks, the rocks are there. Right there!
Jimmie: I'm gonna get fuckin' divorced. No marriage counselling, no trial separation, I'm gonna get fuckin' divorced.
Yes, many people in rural parts of India are very orthodox and have arranged marriages. But I won't - I want to fall madly in love with someone and be whisked off my feet.
My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.
It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.
My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.
In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you.
American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.
There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.
My wife and I have what's known as mixed marriage. I am a Methodist, she is a Muslim. So we're keeping it in the M's.
Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?
Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?
