The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.
If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.
David and I were divorced in 1980, and there has been silence between us ever since. Despite our decade of marriage and a child together, I was airbrushed out of his life. He never demonstrated any affection or gratitude after we parted. He fired anyone who mentioned my name.
I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.
Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.
If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.
No matter how committed a marriage, there will always be other people - those we have chemistry with and those we don't, those we are attracted to, and those who shop for functional outdoors wear. The sooner a couple can accept the existence of the former and exchange a few basic reassurances concerning them, the easier life gets.
Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.
The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.
When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
Marriage is a wonderful thing.
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
I have a lot of respect for marriage.
The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?
I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.
My views are very fluctuating. I have very contradictory takes on the subject. Dating is easier, while marriage is hard work. You see your friends having early divorces, and on the other hand, you see your parents having a successful marriage.
If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist.
Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.
I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.
I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.
I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.
Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.
My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. That's the same marriage I have.
I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.
Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.
Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
Marriage is the tomb of love.
How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
I believe that marriage is an important part of life. So when it happens, I will definitely let the whole world know.
It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again!
