I have nothing against her, and in fact I'm very fond of my first wife. But we should have ended that marriage eight or 10 years earlier.
— Michael Douglas
I try not to dwell too much on a bad marriage.
I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.
— Michael Bergin
My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.
— Mercedes McCambridge
Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.
— Melina Kanakaredes
Corresponding to the image of a monotheistic God is monogamous marriage. Marriage based on exclusive and definitive love becomes the icon of the relationship between God and his people and vice versa.
— Meir Soloveichik
I spent most of my life from 24 to 31 at the office. I wasn't going to people's weddings; I wasn't cultivating my marriage. I wasn't happy.
— Megyn Kelly
I feel like Nick and I have the best relationship and the best marriage.
— Megan Mullally
For years, my marriage to Prince was mine. The idea of exposing myself to the world... was terrifying.
— Mayte Garcia
I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?
— Max Schmeling
Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
— Max Frisch
I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - my male friends in particular. And I started wondering if my wife, who was certainly my best friend, supplanted those relationships.
— Matthew Weiner
We're used to boy meets girl, boy likes girl, instant attraction on TV. But you throw a son in there, you throw a marriage in there, and you've got some really good character stuff.
— Matt Passmore
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
— Mary Wesley
I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.
— Mary McCormack
When someone comes up to me and says, 'Mary, you helped save my marriage', or, 'Mary, you helped me get out of this abusive relationship', I'm in it, really in their lives. And I'm so passionate about my feelings, but also about showing people the way through theirs.
— Mary J. Blige
It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.
— Mary Cheney
During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life.
My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long.
Friendships and marriage are far more potent than financial conflicts.
— Michael Arrington
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
— Menander
Marriage is marriage. Everybody has problems.
— Mel Gibson
Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission.
There were some articles written about our marriage, mythologising it, making it into the greatest love story ever told.
Isn't that sort of what happened with gay marriage? Right before gay marriage was legalized, everybody was just losing their minds and, like, the worst possible things were happening, and it was just all like it couldn't get any worse, and then it suddenly got a lot better.
That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do.
— Maxine Kumin
One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make.
— Max Lucado
Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn't realize is that legalizing gay marriage is like electing a black president. Before you do it, it seems inconceivable. Once it's done, you can't remember what all the fuss was about.
— Maureen Dowd
Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.
— Matt Taibbi
My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.
— Matt Damon
My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
When I started boxing, people laughed at me and said, 'What can women do in boxing?' I took it as a challenge. If men can do it, why can't women? And I became a world champion before my marriage.
— Mary Kom
I wasn't ever anybody who had a political thing against marriage, but I just thought, 'Why would I want to do that?'
— Mary Gaitskill
I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
My marriage and my families come certainly before my career.
I have no useful theories about love and marriage.
— Michael Cunningham
The questions of traditional and redefined marriage are highly emotional and a difficult and sensitive topic. Living in the D.C. area and having gay friends and colleagues, I find the topic difficult to discuss and sometimes even difficult write about for fear that I will be judged.
— Mercedes Schlapp
I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce.
— Melissa Etheridge
After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.
Orthodox Islam, like orthodox interpretations of the other Abrahamic faiths, views homosexuality as sinful and usually defines marriage as only ever a heterosexual union. This isn't to say that there is no debate on the subject.
— Mehdi Hasan
We had a gay marriage on 'Will & Grace' in 2000, 2001. And I was like, 'Gay marriage?' I mean, it was just really early.
It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.
— Meg Ryan
First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.
— Maximilian Schell
If a planet is setting in the West at the time of our birth, its angle strikes us in such a manner as to draw us to a certain type of marriage partner, and the planets under the earth, in the North, have an effect upon our condition in the latter part of life.
— Max Heindel
I think infidelity is difficult, monogamy is difficult, and marriage is difficult.
— Maura Tierney
I don't support gay marriage. I'm just not there, as far as believing in my heart that we should change 2,000 years of social policy in favor of a redefinition of the family.
— Matt Salmon
Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.
— Masaharu Morimoto
Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.
If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada.
— Mary Karr
Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.
— Mary Douglas
