You always knew there was love, but marriage adds this layer of security. We’re going through our life together, forever.
— Maria Taylor
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
— Maria Callas
I don't think Pierre Trudeau knew how to be a husband. I couldn't stay in that marriage.
— Margaret Trudeau
The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.
— Margaret Sanger
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
In my kids' school, the married family is an anomaly... which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.
— Marcia Gay Harden
I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.
— Marc Chagall
Everybody tries so hard to pair wines with Indian food, and it has never been a natural marriage.
— Maneet Chauhan
Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?
— Malcolm Turnbull
It's a lot of work to make a marriage work. Just because you have been married for a while doesn't mean you can sit back and relax. You still have to be on your toes. A marriage needs constant attention.
— Malaika Arora Khan
It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Same-sex marriage is not the future.
— Maggie Gallagher
My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
— Maeve Binchy
Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.
— Madeleine Stowe
I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important.
— Lynne Truss
I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage.
— Lynn Johnston
Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.
— Lydia Millet
The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
— Maria Montessori
When people start reconfiguring marriage, there's no going back.
— Margo Jefferson
I prepared myself for my marriage to Pierre Trudeau, but I didn't prepare myself for marriage to the prime minister.
To me, marriage is really important and what we build families on. That's why gay marriage is really important.
— Margaret Cho
Supporting the definition of marriage as one man and one woman is not anti-gay: it is pro-traditional marriage. And if support for traditional marriage is bigotry, then Barack Obama was a bigot until just before the 2012 election.
— Marco Rubio
It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.
— Marcel Achard
I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.
— Manny Pacquiao
Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.
— Mandy Moore
Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.
When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
— Maj Sjowall
You can be a liberal and accept same-sex marriage and all that, but that's your business.
— Mahathir Mohamad
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
— Mae West
The great folk hymns are a perfect marriage of text and tune. There are those that have nice messages and some with good music, but it is such a bonus when they are both wonderful.
— Mack Wilberg
I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.
— Lynn Redgrave
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.
— Lynn Coady
Short of the passage of a Constitutional Amendment protecting marriage as between one man and one woman, the U.S. Supreme Court has the final say.
— Luther Strange
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.
— Maria Monk
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
— Marge Piercy
I don't think I'm marriage material, to tell you the truth. I'd be a bad choice. But I'd be darling at being a girlfriend.
Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.
— Margaret Cavendish
I love the institution of marriage.
— Marco Pierre White
I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.
— Marc Webb
After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
— Manju Warrier
Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Even after marriage, our home is important for us.
— Mahesh Babu
Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.
I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart.
— Maajid Nawaz
There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side.
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
