An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.
But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.
I think what's dangerous about marriage is the way it can make you feel like you've got it all wrapped up. Like you're done: you've found your spouse, you've married him or her, and you don't need to think too much more about it.
I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.
Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.
I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.
I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.
Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!
Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
The marriage of computing and connectivity without the shackles of being tethered to a location is one of the biggest disruptive forces of modern times.
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
Would we be a better society if we made marriage simply a private contract between two individuals, with no wider implications of kinship and family? I do not believe that we would.
In Egypt, where my research is focused, I have seen plenty of trouble in and out of the citadel. There are legions of young men who can't afford to get married, because marriage has become a very expensive proposition. They are expected to bear the burden of costs in married life, but they can't find jobs.
A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is, somebody owes somebody money.
Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.
Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.
The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done such a marvelous job of debasing marriage on their own all these many years.
Although we hardly see each other off the set, Joy and I get along well when we do. As far as the marriage between Nathan and Haley, I think they are young and will see the reality of the situation eventually.
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
If you have a difficult marriage, it's the hard times that make it better. If you have a relationship, it's the hard times that actually make it better, and that goes for life as well.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.
My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.
I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.
I'm all for same-sex marriage.
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
I've praised Obama's record on same-sex equality as enthusiastically as anyone: it's one area where his record has been impressive. I understand, and have expressed, the emotional importance for LGBT Americans of his marriage announcement as well as its political significance.
Everyone's marriage is different. But everyone's marriage is a compromise.
May these vows and this marriage be blessed.