There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.
— P. J. O'Rourke
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
— Oscar Wilde
When I was in law school at Harvard, the Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA) in the U.S. was a big thing. I remember the fight between the army recruiters and Harvard University due to 'Don't ask, don't tell.'
— Ory Okolloh
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.
— Om Malik
When you're in a marriage, you can't leave just because you're arguing all the time. But it does stuff to you that you don't realise at first. It damages you, and you start thinking the worst of people.
— Oliver Sykes
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
— Ogden Nash
I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.
— Norman Lear
The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.
— Nikola Tesla
Since I've been in the U.S. I've lost the back of my heart, 15 ft. of intestine and my marriage - and God, I miss my intestine.
— Nigel Lythgoe
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
— Nicolas Chamfort
'The Split' is actually really hopeful - although it's left me reeling slightly, thinking about what we do to each other in the name of love, within the contract of marriage.
— Nicola Walker
Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.
— Nick Lachey
I'm pretty old-fashioned. I feel most people - and this is purely from observation; I'm not an expert - but I think most people want to get married, whatever one might say about the institution of marriage, especially if you are in a long relationship.
— Nicholas Stoller
Often it's a lack of time, not taste, that leads someone to hire a decorator. A good decorator/client relationship should be like a marriage. The time one puts in needs to be extensive. One needs to listen to them and understand what they like and how they live.
— Nicholas Haslam
I was never totally into marriage, and I wasn't a very good wife.
— Nell Carter
While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them.
— Neil Strauss
American liberals have become addicted to the courtroom, relying on judges and lawyers rather than elected leaders and the ballot box, as the primary means of effecting their social agenda on everything from gay marriage to assisted suicide to the use of vouchers for private-school education.
— Neil Gorsuch
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
No one can understand how close a marriage actually is. You just don't know: with a husband and wife, they have a special connection.
— Omarosa Manigault Newman
My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
— Olivia Williams
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
— Oliver Goldsmith
A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.
— Nuno Bettencourt
Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.
— Noah Feldman
Republicans need to stay strong on the fact that marriage is between a man and a woman. Those are values that are true to the party and true to who we are. They could focus on jobs and the economy, but we all know that keeping the family structure intact is very important in our country.
— Nikki Haley
Although my marriage left me with three beautiful children, it also left me with a healthy dose of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and an extreme desire to be loved again. I was operating on empty, expecting to be paid in full.
— Niecy Nash
When you're both actors, it is feast or famine financially and emotionally in your marriage.
Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman.
— Nick Lampson
My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that's the position I take.
— Nick Jonas
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.
The Constitution of the United States has absolutely nothing to say about a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. Were the federal courts to recognize such a right, it would be completely without constitutional basis.
— Newt Gingrich
My marriage is very important to me.
Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.
— Neil Simon
I'm a believer in arranged marriages. I mean, mine was kind of an arranged marriage. My sister introduced me to my husband. You know, kind of set it up.
— Neeru Bajwa
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
— Omar Khayyam
The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.
— Olivia Wilde
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
— Norman Mailer
I had my children after eight years of marriage. It was a dream come true. I still pinch myself.
— Nita Ambani
My husband was adopted, and we had difficulty having both of my children, so we know the gift that life is. We do believe marriage is between a man and a woman. It's how you stand on that kind of thing or how you vote that really makes a difference.
Marriage is important to me and I love the idea of being married.
— Nicole Appleton
I find the whole ceremony of marriage a bit like going to work. Putting on a lovely dress and make-up, learning lines, someone doing your hair.
I don't think there's necessarily anything that's rock solid about any marriage. It's all about that balance, especially when you have kids.
Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
— Nick Cave
My father, a refugee from Eastern Europe, was preparing a fraudulent marriage to an American citizen as a route to this country when he was sponsored, making fraud unnecessary. My wife's grandfather bought papers from another Chinese villager to be able to come to the United States.
— Nicholas Kristof
My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way.
— NeNe Leakes
I'm not very kind about marriage. I will never get married again.
'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was really interested in the technical CG side of things. I'd never done a movie that I thought would be so physical and yet so precise. So I was intrigued by all of that.
— Neil Patrick Harris
