For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
— Mary Augusta Ward
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
— Marvin Gaye
I'm 58 years old. I got married for the first time - it's about time, right? Growing up as a gay woman, you just don't ever think about that, and then I thought, about 10 years ago, 'You know, I think within 10 years gay marriage will be legal.' And here we are, 10 years later, making it legal.
— Martina Navratilova
I believe marriage is a human right, not a state right.
— Martin O'Malley
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
— Martin Luther
There are many deaf people who couldn't imagine living in a marriage without someone who doesn't speak their language. For me, I believe that hearing or deaf is fine as long as both parties are willing to communicate in each other's language. But if there's no communication, then the marriage, I believe, will be difficult if not doomed.
— Marlee Matlin
When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner 'til death do you part.'
— Mark Udall
I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.
— Mark Ruffalo
Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a union.
— Mark McKinnon
If you look at issues like immigration, gay marriage, gun regulation - these are all things that probably wouldn't be a source of much discussion at all in D.C., if they weren't sources of self-perpetuation.
— Mark Leibovich
Marriage isn't the end-point of a relationship. It's just a stepping stone, one aspect of a long-term evolution between two people who have, for whatever reason, decided to take a leap of faith and say, 'Well, hey, this is a person who I want to try with for the rest of my life.' Which is not a guarantee of perfection - far from it.
— Marjorie Liu
There is great mystery in a church. For me, there is a great privilege to be confronted with the design of a church because it shelters the most powerful themes of humanity: birth, marriage, death.
— Mario Botta
Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.
— Marilyn Monroe
Marriage changes everything.
— Marilyn Manson
When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.
— Marie Osmond
Abolition didn't just happen - people made it happen. Women's suffrage didn't just happen - people made it happen. Civil Rights legislation didn't just happen - people made it happen. And marriage equality didn't just happen, either - people made it happen.
— Marianne Williamson
Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true.
It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
Ted Cruz, if he's elected president, the first thing he will do is return Don't Ask Don't Tell and roll back same-sex marriage laws. Which is law - hello - you can't really take it away. It's really terrifying the direction we're going in now.
Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.
— Martin Seligman
Doing difficult things like passing marriage equality, passing the Dream Act, doing common sense things that allow new American immigrants to fully participate, pay their taxes, play by the rules and take care of their families. That's the inclusive America that I believe all of us want to move to.
Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
— Martin Freeman
I was made to believe there was a plan in place for ending Donald's previous marriage. I pulled away because I wanted to allow him the time to deal with his wife.
— Marla Maples
I support allowing gay couples to marry because of - not in spite of - my values. And many of those values are the same ones deeply held by those who do not believe in gay marriage.
I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.
I don't really care how or why Obama got to the right place on gay marriage. I'm just glad he got there.
To me, marriage has nothing to do with anybody but me and my wife.
— Mark Consuelos
I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.
— Marisa Tomei
My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.
— Marina Abramovic
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure.
— Mariella Frostrup
My marriage to David Bailey ended one morning in 1983, while he was away on a photo-shoot.
— Marie Helvin
In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded of their failures and limited by the energies of another person. It is rife with judgment and blame.
For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy.
— Marianne Faithfull
Marriage is... OK, it's rooted and grounded on love and attraction.
— Mary Archer
I think we will have full marriage rights in Colorado. But in 1992, there was a very hateful Amendment 2 that basically made it legal for any institution to deny gays and lesbians access, whether it's hospitals or restaurants or employment. Anybody could fire you or not let you in a restaurant because you were gay.
All of us, wherever we happen to stand on the marriage equality issue, can agree that all our children deserve the opportunity to live in a loving, caring, committed, and stable home, protected equally under the law.
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.
— Marlo Thomas
I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
— Mark Twain
I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman, the same as I've believed all my life.
— Mark Neumann
You know, Republicans should have a consistent philosophy. And if your philosophy is about limited government and not intruding in people's lives, you shouldn't just inconveniently take a social issue like gay marriage and say, 'Well, unless we think - actually we should be intruding your life.'
I hope gay marriage will be legal in every state.
Our black president can't say that he's for gay marriage. That is upsetting to me.
— Mario Cantone
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.
I am happy. I have a wonderful marriage. I was in a not-great second marriage for 20 years, then I fell in love with Steve, my first husband, again, and we remarried. I wore the dress from our first wedding in 1982 - it was tight, but I could get into it.
In a month's time, I shall be able to give your Majesty news of the Comtesse de Provence, for the marriage is fixed for May 14th; they had prepared many fetes for this marriage, but now they are economising in them for want of money.
— Marie Antoinette
Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.
