For a healthy society, those laws and conventions should always support marriage as an institution characterised by an openness to children and the responsibility of fathers and mothers remaining together to care for children born into their family.
Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.
After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.
I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.
I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been.
Marriage, at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40.
I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.
TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives; it's like a marriage.
Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.
Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.
Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.
I think it's important for people to understand that this started with President Bill Clinton. He, as president, thought it was such a big priority, he passed the defense of marriage - defense of traditional non-gay marriage - that we have it as a federal law.
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
I guess I just feel bad that I'm still going on bad dates when I should really be in a bad marriage by now.
What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
Marriage is an indissoluble state of life wherein a man and a woman agree to give each other power over their bodies for the begetting, birth, and upbringing of offspring.
I wanted to be the first girl in my class to get married. From the seventh grade on, I used to write in my yearbook under each senior's picture, 'married' or 'engaged.' I had marriage on the brain.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.
I love our traditional marriage. I would never cheat on Hank.
I firmly believe in marriage. It's a real important decision that takes a lot of dedication and time. If you're thinking about divorce. You shouldn't get married.
It couldn't be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn't really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don't gravitate to it.
Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.
A big part of being in a relationship or marriage or whatever is you have to eventually compromise. Your life doesn't end up exactly the way you think it's going to, and if it's the right relationship, you might have to compromise what you're doing professionally.
If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.
Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.
Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.
